2010-Midterm Elections Coming Early To Massachusetts

by Pietro Savo

It appears that perhaps the 2010-midterm elections coming early to the State of Massachusetts. With the passing of Ted Kennedy, filling his senatorial seat decided by a special election. As Massachusetts’ law stand today the special election will be open to all political parties. Massachusetts law requires a special election within 145-160 days after a Senate seat becomes vacant and the law prohibits the governor from making an interim appointment. This was not always the case in Massachusetts, which last changed its succession law in 2004 to require a special election. Before that change, the governor could name a successor. At the time, the Democrat Party worried that the Republican Governor Mitt Romney would be able to fill any vacancy created if Democratic Senator John Kerry became elected president, obviously changing the rules to best fit the Democrat Party’s politics of the day (Source: CNN).

Imagine what would happen if we change the rules to favor the New York Yankees before the next Boston Red Sox World Series.

Ironically, the American Revolution began at Christ Church in Boston where it was “one if by land, two if by sea,” by passionate people who believed in freedom, liberty, and developed what we call today democracy (Source: Library of Congress). Such important history beginning in Massachusetts is on the verge of historic significance once again.

The question now becomes will the Democrat Party change the rules to keep this senatorial seat or will they put their trust in our democracy and fair play?

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Read, write, and question everything!

Democracy is Not A Polite and Pretty Entity

by Pietro Savo

Many of my liberal, moderate, and conservative friends focus more on the argument than the actual importance of having the argument. Agree or not, the disagreement of different political viewpoints represents the only true important factor in the rhetoric. We must never stop debating, never stop disagreeing, and never stop questioning because that is what democracy is all about.

Democracy is not a polite and pretty entity; it can become fearful for the light-at-heart. When we stop arguing, when the rhetoric becomes one-sided, when any side is no longer willing to question, we achieve pure submission. Submission does not work in a democracy; submission is not liberty nor is it being free. The human race has not achieved the top of the food chain because we were submissive. The human race represents the uppermost part of the food chain because we are willing to risk all to get our point across. What does this all mean, there is no real democracy without passionate rhetoric!

Regardless of where your political beliefs reside, be it left, middle or right, is not the concern, what is important is questioning our government to keep them honest and true to our best wishes. When we are questioning, we’re pro-actively taking the time to understand each issue that interests us, and affects us, as long as we independently determine our own belief at the end of the day that is true democracy. Read, write, and question everything!

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Rationing Health Care Means You Have Lived Long Enough

by Pietro Savo

What happens when people from the top schools take over the government, they assume that they know what they are doing? The joke is on them or is it on us? This expensive education they received taught by people who have not worked or learned in the real world is clueless and worthless. The educational joke perhaps is on the rest of us, the working middle class folks who really suffer the consequences from their poor judgment, and “we are not laughing.”

With book-smart learning, practical learning does not exist. True intellects do not begin in the classroom; true intellects begin working in the real-world, where your decisions right or wrong affects an organization’s ability to create success. With today’s medical technology and expertise money or profits should never become placed before good medical treatment. That is exactly what rationing health care represents, deciding when the financial cutoff to treat a patient becomes reached.

With the current government’s plans formulating in Washington, I figure at 50 years old I have about ten years to live and then the government will decide that I have lived long enough. Any extra medical care I have earned in my lifetime will become forfeited in the name of fair treatment for all. Rational health care also takes the incentive away from smart people to spend ten years in college to earn a medical degree. With the prospect of making less real money, less smart people will go into medicine risking future medical advancements. How do you feel about a second-rate doctor treating you or your children? Diseases become cured by the smartest people going into the medical professions. Rationing health care is a double edge sword that will slow medical advancement and progress and kill working middle class folks.

The icing on the cake is the people in the government making rationing health care a devastating reality will not lose their quality medical care no matter what they promise you. This change will only affect us working middle class folks. The humor in this is we sent Dr. Jack Kevorkian aka “Dr Death” to jail for helping people die, and now the government is about to make legal the same practice.

The solution is to put successful people in charge of our government, here is my pick; Lee Iaccoca, Bill Gates, T. Boone Pickens, Dambisa Moyo, Steve Jobs, Ted Turner, Kathy Gallagher, Michael Dell, Meg Whitman, Donald Trump, Catherine Hughes, Jack Welch, Derschaun Sharpley, Pam Geller and Warren Buffett. What these successful people have in common is they have made good productive paying jobs for other people all their lives, and they have not focused their intellect on creating unproductive propaganda. Perhaps the solution is once again having the citizen politician as our nation’s founding fathers wanted!

Term limits, urgently needed today, as a means to ensure citizen politicians inspired by real-world common sense experiences can make the laws once again. Start calling your government representative; tell them what is on your mind! http://www.usa.gov/Contact/Elected.shtml ; Read, Write and Live Longer!







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Sarah Palin, the common folks 21st century American Knight!

Sarah Palin, the common folks 21st century American Knight!

Why do the silver spoon-fed aristocrats hate Governor Palin so much? This hatred comes from her association with the common folks. Today’s embedded long-term career politicians are no different from the noble class of the Middle Ages. Then out of the American last wild frontier comes a woman not groomed for greatness by attending the finest private schools money could buy. She is a natural people organizer, positive proof that you don’t have to buy votes to win elections. She is a person who’s family is as unpredictable as our own, and far from perfect, yet so truly loved. Her examples of genuine love for her family are an aristocrat’s worst nightmare.

Here is why the aristocrats are now worried, our economic system shaped like a pyramid, the wealthiest 10% of United States families own more than 72% of the total wealth. (Source: Race, class, and gender in the United States by Paula S. Rothenberg) This means the remaining 90% represent the second class citizens, the common folks, and the middle class. 90% of anything represents an amazing number of votes that reacts to positive emotion. Governor Palin gives people a reason for positive emotion, and she gives them a reason to believe that common folks can become great leaders in our society. She represents the truest form of the American dream, still alive today in the 21st Century.

Compounding the aristocrat’s dilemma is the aristocrats can only afford to buy off about 20% of these common folks; the remaining 80% represent a voting revolution thirsty for a new leader.

The aristocrats believe that Sarah Palin is this leader, a common folks 21st century American Knight. She may or may not be the next chosen one, what she will do is shake up the aristocrat tree, and we will all be better-off because of it!







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A Paramedic is the Original Gene Pool Lifeguard is Funny!

The life of a paramedic, rescuing kittens from trees was the olden days; today it is as if you are fishing for idiots. Living in the people jungle the time-honored saying “you can’t make this stuff up” simply happens. Just recently a 17-year-old driver who had stopped to rescue a turtle in the middle-of-the-road placed the turtle in the car. Shortly after driving off, the turtle began to crawl on the driver’s leg frightening him, and causing the driver to crash into a large maple tree. The paramedics credited with two rescues that night, the scared driver and turtle. For the record, a paramedic is the original gene pool lifeguard; the occasional practical jokes or funny experiences make their job worthwhile. Humor is nature’s sanity check and makes for our daily survival to go on and appreciate another day. Humor also helps lighten the frame of mind of scared patients who could use a little healthy distraction in their lives during potentially life-or-death situations. (Fishing for Idiots and Gene Pool Lifeguard; source a Connecticut Paramedic)

Humor is great healing medication, so tell jokes or do funny stuff fits right in whenever you can. This morning my 17 year-old son was heading to school wearing two different sneakers, I noticed and was quickly told to lighten up, and off he went. Everyone needs humor in their lives; a Stanford School of Medicine study reported the average kindergarten student laughs 300 times a day and the average adult only 17 laughs a day. Laughter said to rid us of tension, stress, anger, anxiety, grief, and depression. Laughter releases our suppressed emotion, and wearing two different sneakers in public is funny, so lighten up!







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