Why is it that republicans hate ordinary people? I am reading through the voting records of Rod Grams and Mark Kennedy this morning, and these guys hate anyone with an income under 100,000$. Minimum wage....we don't need it. Overtime: We don't need it. Assistance to build schools , headstart, health care funding and aid for small farmers are all part of some vast conspiracy. The other day I was at my father's assisted living ( i am sure another crazy liberal idea...housing the old and infirm with dignity and care, rather than that wonderful republican concept of homelessness or the old poor farm), and a man was walking around....he had prosthetic arms and came over to ask me how I was...he had obviously been burned and lost his arms in that...turned out he was a veteran, wounded in Korea. This year, the repubs voted to cut vet's funding....frigging vet's funding. Now that's patriotic. Wave a flag repubs, and yell "we screwed vets". Remember: these people have voted against anything that has improved people's lives for the last 70 year. The eight hour day, overtime pay, social security, health care, the minimum wage..they have fought against it all and are trying to get rid of it now. They want to bring back the good ol' days of slavery. But if you are a large corporation, and contribute oodles of cash to their forever growing pockets, suddenly you are in need of desperate assistance. The poor, poor rich suffering the burden of the estate tax...forced to get only millions and billions.....never actually having to work....I am crying for them. I have concluded this: These people are just self-serving fanatics who cannot and will not deal with reality. Blind to the real world, they do not see what is real, but only what they wish to see. Then they fatten themselves and their friends at the public trough.