CLUE 1: “went to short dogs house, they was watching Yo MTV RAPS” Yo MTV RAPS first aired: Aug 6th 1988 CLUE 2: Ice Cubes single “today was a good day” released on: Feb 23 1993 CLUE 3: ”The Lakers beat the Super Sonics” Dates between Yo MTV Raps air date AUGUST 6 1988 and the release…
Despite the fact that Romney claims that the national debt is the reason young Americans should vote Republican, GOP presidents are the biggest deficit spenders and have contributed most of our current debt.
Last year, Republicans attempted to redefine “rape” so it only included forcible action. Drugging a woman to take advantage of her would no longer be rape, just bad manners.
The Arizona State Senate voted to allow doctors to lie to women in order to keep them from getting an abortion. This could range from serious, life-threatening birth defects to even the possible death of the mother.
Republican PA Governor Tom Corbett defended the bill requiring women to view ultrasounds of their fetus before getting an abortion by saying they can just close their eyes.
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Pennsylvania Governor Defends His Support Of Ultrasound Bill
The Mudlfats reports that State Rep. Alan Dick recently “said that he doesn’t believe that when a woman is pregnant, it’s really ‘her pregnancy’” and “would advocate for criminalizing women who have an abortion without the permission via written signature from the man who impregnated her.” “If I thought that the man’s signature was required… required, in order for a woman to have an abortion, I’d have a little more peace about it.”
Arizona Rep. Terri Proud: “Personally I’d like to make a law that mandates a woman watch an abortion being performed prior to having a ‘surgical procedure’.”
feminismisprettycool:
Why I’m voting for Barack Obama again in 2012, in the words of Susan B. Anthony:
No self respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party that ignores her sex.
Health Care Reform has already helped millions of young Americans. The same reform that the GOP pledges to destroy.
CBS News covers how the provision that allows young Americans under 26 to remain on their parents’ health insurance has helped cover over 2 million youth.
Republicans have spent years attempting to suppress the youth vote.
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Students are often the target of deceptive practices and dissuaded from voting in the states where they attend college or universities. In the past, students have been falsely told they could not vote using their college address and, if they did, their parents would not be able to claim them as dependents on their federal tax returns, would lose their financial aid, and could face criminal charges. In 2008, Drexel University students were targeted with flyers posted around campus warning them that undercover officers would be at polling locations ready to arrest students if they had any outstanding warrants or traffic violations in an effort to suppress their vote.
Modern technology, particularly the internet and social networking tools, have been used to quickly and anonymously disseminate false information. Web-based deceptive practices are particularly dangerous because the targets of this information, believing it to be true, will often pass it along to their friends and family - making it viral. For example, emails in 2008 were sent to George Mason University students telling them that Election Day had been changed to November 5th from the university provost. The provost quickly sent an email to students telling his account had been hacked and the information was false.
Republicans in state legislatures across the country are passing voting restrictions that are designed to make it more difficult for young Americans, college students, and minorities to vote.
A Wisconsin state employee was fired after he publicized that voters could receive IDs for free, against the will of Republicans like Gov. Scott Walker, who wanted the Department of Transportation to keep it a secret and only grant free IDs to those who directly asked about them.
The American Legislative Exchange Council, a conservative group responsible for authoring many of the most right-wing pieces of legislation introduced in state legislatures across the country, has been heavily involved in drafting voter suppression measures.
The chairman of the Maine Republican Party said that college students that are originally from out of state should not be allowed to vote, and that when they do it is voter fraud.
Republicans in Wisconsin have decreased the hours of polling places in Democratic/student heavy precincts and increased the hours of polling places in Republican precincts.
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Republicans Close DMV Offices to Suppress the Vote
College costs and student loan debt are rising dramatically as GOP legislators and members of Congress cut higher education funding, reduce financial aid, and balance state budgets on the backs of students.
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President Obama and other Democrats have urged Congress to act to extend the low rate (Democrat Representative Joe Courtney of Connecticut has introduced legislation that would stop the rate hike), while Republicans favor allowing the rate to return to 6.8%.”
State legislatures have been balancing their budgets on the backs of students, causing some public universities to be more expensive than private Ivy League schools.
Through fees and tuition increases politicians are using the weapon of funding cuts to pull more money out of the bank of students as their districts benefit from their presence, but the bank is about to dry up. As we witnessed last month during the student protests, this exploitation is reaching its limit. In the past politicians were comfortable balancing budgets on the backs of students because they assumed they would not vote; that the young were the safest to indirectly raise taxes on. These politicians now face students that are more aware of their political power, have learned to organize, and are fighting for the economic security of their lives. Students will fight this exploitation because their quality of life is at stake, and those stakes create a powerful and committed opponent.
Student loan debt has become massive, forcing many graduating students to delay their lives and potentially crippling their long-term financial security.
Republican Presidential candidate Rick Santorum called the President a snob for wanting all young Americans to have the chance to receive some higher education.
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Santorum: Obama “A Snob” For Wanting Everyone To Go To College
GOP politicians are opposed to the DREAM act, which would grant some of our brightest students a path to citizenship and the ability to have a good education.
catarinacowboy:
I support President Obama because he is the only candidate that realizes that the only way to bring Americans out of poverty and lower unemployment in the long run is to invest in education. One way to do that is to pass the DREAM ACT now. Mitt Romney is against the DREAM ACT, need I say more?
Jack:
Because Obama recognizes climate change, just like 98% of scientists. How could anyone in my generation vote for someone who is content killing our planet?
I was among the thousands of people cramming into Foley Square Wednesday evening, observing those who had come down to show their support for the Occupy Wall Street movement. I arrived at 4:30, and for the next hour roamed around the park. It had the energy of a festival, a…
