texas GOP, da fuck?

[gazzthompson]

http://s3.amazonaws.com/texasgop_pre/assets/original/2012Platform_Final.pdf


We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values clarification), critical thinking skills and similar programs that are simply a relabeling of Outcome-Based Education (OBE) (mastery learning) which focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challenging the student’s fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority

Keep them dumb, keep them stupid, and keep them in line?


We recognize parental responsibility and authority regarding sex education. We believe that parents must be given an opportunity to review the material prior to giving their consent. We oppose any sex education other than abstinence until marriage

Yeah, because that works!

There is also some shit about the bible and Israel, scary stuff . All in all, what the Fuck?

[Sixx]

http://txdemocrats.org/2012/platform.pdf

The Dems shit looks good on paper.
I like their views on Cannabis....
I like their views on environmental protection.
I like their views on education.
I like their views on foreign policy.


But I am NOT for the DREAM Act.
It's stupid.

Fuck illegals.
Fuck illegals.
Fuck illegals.
Do it the right way or get the fuck out.

Benefits and rights should be reserved for American citizens not illegal immigrants.

[gazzthompson]

Thanks for the link, ill give it a read.

I loved Texas, I really did. Fort worth, Dallas, Arlington, San Antonio (especially the river walk area) , Austin... all great cities, great places and great people. I miss it, but what the fuck GOP.

[Sixx]

Texas is awesome. One of the best states that I have been in.

[eaglethebeagle]

All it says is let parents do the parenting and get schools out of teaching children about shit parents should be doing themselves.

I love it thats why we live in America.

I dont need some angry black president forcing his agenda down my kids throat in our public school system.

Trust me go with your instincts and know that if Texas is doing it then its way fucking better than what obama and the democrats want to do.


We, the 2012 Republican Party of Texas, believe in this platform and expect our elected leaders to
uphold these truths through acknowledgement and action. We believe in:
1. Strict adherence to the original intent of the Declaration of Independence and U.S. and Texas
Constitutions.
2. The sanctity of human life, created in the image of God, which should be protected from
fertilization to natural death.
3. Preserving American and Texas Sovereignty and Freedom.
4. Limiting government power to those items enumerated in the U.S. and Texas Constitutions.
5. Personal Accountability and Responsibility.
6. Self-sufficient families, founded on the traditional marriage of a natural man and a natural
woman.
7. Having an educated population, with parents having the freedom of choice for the education of
their children.
8. Americans having the right to be safe in their homes, on their streets, and in their communities,
and the unalienable right to defend themselves.
9. A free enterprise society unencumbered by government interference or subsidies.
10.Honoring all of those that serve and protect our freedom.
11. “The laws of nature and nature’s God” as our Founding Fathers believed.





This is perfect they got it right in Texas.

[mrfrosty]

As a Texan i just wanna say the GOP is a bunch of lunatics.
look at their Immigration policy!
they want only people born in America by Americans to be considered a US citizen.

the GOP is completely detached from reality.
open a history book this country was built by immigrants.

[MadeInRu]

So the schools teach children that they were created by god and don't want to teach Darvin theory?

[Clodius]

So the schools teach children that they were created by god and don't want to teach Darvin theory?
That is what some people would like to happen yes.

[gazzthompson]

I like how they oppose 'critical thinking skills' when it suits them, ie their indoctrination of their children with bullshit dogma. But ask and expect 'critical thinking' of overwhelmingly proven scientific theories with 'Controversial Theories' ... fucking hypocrisy .

[eaglethebeagle]

Here are the facts. If you support democrats (obama) you support an anti military administration. They will shit on military families and pay their union pals or themselves first.










Long read on how obama is shitting on military active and retired.



The Obama administration’s proposed defense budget calls for military families and retirees to pay sharply more for their healthcare, while leaving unionized civilian defense workers’ benefits untouched. The proposal is causing a major rift within the Pentagon, according to U.S. officials. Several congressional aides suggested the move is designed to increase the enrollment in Obamacare’s state-run insurance exchanges.

The disparity in treatment between civilian and uniformed personnel is causing a backlash within the military that could undermine recruitment and retention.

The proposed increases in health care payments by service members, which must be approved by Congress, are part of the Pentagon’s $487 billion cut in spending. It seeks to save $1.8 billion from the Tricare medical system in the fiscal 2013 budget, and $12.9 billion by 2017.

Many in Congress are opposing the proposed changes, which would require the passage of new legislation before being put in place.

“We shouldn’t ask our military to pay our bills when we aren’t willing to impose a similar hardship on the rest of the population,” Rep. Howard “Buck” McKeon, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee and a Republican from California, said in a statement to the Washington Free Beacon. “We can’t keep asking those who have given so much to give that much more.”

Administration officials told Congress that one goal of the increased fees is to force military retirees to reduce their involvement in Tricare and eventually opt out of the program in favor of alternatives established by the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare.

“When they talked to us, they did mention the option of healthcare exchanges under Obamacare. So it’s in their mind,” said a congressional aide involved in the issue.

Military personnel from several of the armed services voiced their opposition to a means-tested tier system for Tricare, prompting Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey to issue a statement Feb. 21.

Dempsey said the military is making tough choices in cutting defense spending. In addition to the $487 billion over 10 years, the Pentagon is facing automatic cuts that could push the total reductions to $1 trillion.

“I want those of you who serve and who have served to know that we’ve heard your concerns, in particular your concern about the tiered enrollment fee structure for Tricare in retirement,” Dempsey said. “You have our commitment that we will continue to review our health care system to make it as responsive, as affordable, and as equitable as possible.”

Under the new plan, the Pentagon would get the bulk of its savings by targeting under-65 and Medicare-eligible military retirees through a tiered increase in annual Tricare premiums that will be based on yearly retirement pay.

Significantly, the plan calls for increases between 30 percent to 78 percent in Tricare annual premiums for the first year. After that, the plan will impose five-year increases ranging from 94 percent to 345 percent—more than 3 times current levels.

According to congressional assessments, a retired Army colonel with a family currently paying $460 a year for health care will pay $2,048.

The new plan hits active duty personnel by increasing co-payments for pharmaceuticals and eliminating incentives for using generic drugs.

The changes are worrying some in the Pentagon who fear it will severely impact efforts to recruit and maintain a high-quality all-volunteer military force. Such benefits have been a key tool for recruiting qualified people and keeping them in uniform.

“Would you stay with a car insurance company that raised your premiums by 345 percent in five years? Probably not,” said the congressional aide. “Would anybody accept their taxes being raised 345 percent in five years? Probably not.”

A second congressional aide said the administration’s approach to the cuts shows a double standard that hurts the military.

“We all recognize that we are in a time of austerity,” this aide said. “But defense has made up to this point 50 percent of deficit reduction cuts that we agreed to, but is only 20 percent of the budget.”

The administration is asking troops to get by without the equipment and force levels needed for global missions. “And now they are going to them again and asking them to pay more for their health care when you’ve held the civilian workforce at DoD and across the federal government virtually harmless in all of these cuts. And it just doesn’t seem fair,” the second aide said.

Spokesmen for the Defense Department and the Joint Chiefs of Staff did not respond to requests for comment on the Tricare increases.

The massive increases beginning next year appear timed to avoid upsetting military voters in a presidential election year, critics of the plan say.

Additionally, the critics said leaving civilian workers’ benefits unchanged while hitting the military reflect the administration’s effort to court labor unions, as government unions are the only segment of organized labor that has increased in recent years.

As part of the increased healthcare costs, the Pentagon also will impose an annual fee for a program called Tricare for Life, a new program that all military retirees automatically must join at age 65. Currently, to enroll in Tricare for Life, retirees pay the equivalent of a monthly Medicare premium.

Under the proposed Pentagon plan, retirees will be hit with an additional annual enrollment fee on top of the monthly premium.

Congressional aides said that despite unanimous support among the military chiefs for the current healthcare changes, some senior officials in the Pentagon are opposing the reforms, in particular the tiered system of healthcare.

“It doesn’t matter what the benefit is, whether it’s commissary, PX, or healthcare, or whatever … under the rationale that if you raise your hand and sign up to serve, you earn a base set of benefits, and it should have nothing to do with your rank when you served, and how much you’re making when you retire,” the first aide said.

Military service organizations are opposing the healthcare changes and say the Pentagon is “means-testing” benefits for service personnel as if they were a social program, and not something earned with 20 or more years of military service.

Retired Navy Capt. Kathryn M. Beasley, of the Military Officers Association of America, said the Military Coalition, 32 military service and veterans groups with an estimated 5 million members, is fighting the proposed healthcare increases, specifically the use of mean-testing for cost increases.

“We think it’s absolutely wrong,” Beasley told the Free Beacon. “This is a breach of faith” for both the active duty and retiree communities.

Congressional hearings are set for next month.

The Veterans of Foreign Wars on Feb. 23 called on all military personnel and the veterans’ community to block the healthcare increases.

“There is no military personnel issue more sacrosanct than pay and benefits,” said Richard L. DeNoyer, head of the 2 million-member VFW. “Any proposal that negatively impacts any quality of life program must be defeated, and that’s why the VFW is asking everyone to join the fight and send a united voice to Congress.”

Senior Air Force leaders are expected to be asked about the health care cost increases during a House Armed Services Committee hearing scheduled for Tuesday.

Congress must pass all the proposed changes into law, as last year’s defense authorization bill preemptively limited how much the Pentagon could increase some Tricare fees, while other fees already were limited in law.

Tricare for Life, Tricare Prime, and Tricare Standard increases must be approved, as well as some of the pharmacy fee increases, congressional aides said.

Current law limits Tricare fee increases to cost of living increases in retirement pay.

[gazzthompson]

And if you vote for the GOP your voting for a administration that wants to keep the population dumb and stupid for their control. Shit and shit.

[Clodius]

The President does not control the money, Congress does. If the mil does not get funding isn't it Congresses fault?

[BrendenF11]

I guess I really don't mind paying a bit more for insurance, it's fucking cheap. For a single person, no children my insurance is 62 something a month. Not to mention I had a seizure 6 months after I got back from Iraq. I paid for my ambulance ride, which was stupid someone should have just drove me, and my CT scan, all in all costed me about 300 for over 3000 in medical bills.

Now the follow up procedures, to see what was really broken in my already broken head, were a MRI of my brain. Also and EEG, which fucking sucked if you ever have one on your head I pity you. I paid 0 cents on the dollar for those procedures, MRI done at my local hospital, and the EEG done at the VA. That is some pretty damn good insurance, better than most around any where in this country. Even with a few rate hikes and some extra spending cut, it will still be far better than any insurance that anyone in this country can get.


My thoughts are that if you join the military simply for the benefits, the retirement, and the insurance you are joining for the wrong reasons. Join to serve and expect nothing in return, give your life in return if need be that's the nature of the job. Those wounded in combat are generally cared for very well, as they should be. That is the money that should not get cut.

[eaglethebeagle]

The President does not control the money, Congress does. If the mil does not get funding isn't it Congresses fault?

read the article again your answer is in the article.

[eaglethebeagle]

Each of us have a right to our opinion on everything. The point of showing a attempt by obama to cut military benefits and not touch the civilian union or his own congress or senate is the lack of respect that shows.

If you can afford your rate hike more power to you. There are those who are retired like my father on a very tight fixed income and cannot afford their insurance raised with all the other increases being forced on us these days.

Why the fuck cant congress the senate obama himself say they will take cuts in their free healthcare and benefits?

Before they start taking from those who have wounds and injuries from serving our country with their lives at risk and being injured why will not these worthless political suits show leadership and accept their own hardship first and help out to do what it takes to prevent it from affecting our service active and retired?

These politicians obama included are rich and have more money than they will spend in their lives. They can afford to pay for insurance out of pocket. Why are they not trying to do everything possible to not affect our men and women and the families of these military?


That is what it is about to me.

[BrendenF11]

Why the fuck cant congress the senate obama himself say they will take cuts in their free healthcare and benefits?



This! Agreed 110%. Political service is no longer a service that a person performs for the good of the American people. Political service is simply a game of playing for your party, gaining votes, and ensuring that your party stays in power. Political service is now a job, just like any other. The simple principles of benefitting the country as a whole, making the right choice in regards to the constitution, etc etc etc. Political service is now nothing more than a high echelon job for the elite in the country, and mostly the elite who tailor to their party which ensures more money to their campaigns. Right and wrong is gone. This goes for both parties, Obama is no better than Romney.

On a side not I am going to flip a coin when I vote, it's kind of like playing russian roulette! I will vote though. I feel like I would be making a mockery of the United States principal of democracy and voting, but then I look at everyone in charge right now.... Then I say, well I'm making a better decision than they will!