Mom’s Soap Box

I don’t mind signing a petition for a good cause. There are plenty of causes to choose from online. Here a few that were sent to me from Change.org:

I demand congress and the President enact single payer universal health care.
Congress and the President must enact S 703 single payer universal health care and set up a new prescription drug benefit in Medicare Part B covering 80% of the cost of all drugs with no extra monthly premiums, no extra yearly deductible, no means tests, no coverage gaps, and remove the means test for Medicare Part B and until that happens, I won’t buy ANYTHING from Republican contributor Rite Aid Pharmacies.

This seems like a step in the right direction. Our “health” care system is clearly not working, and we have to do something. Our children deserve better.

I demand congress and the President enact The Employee Free Choice Act.

In 2008 Brown-Forman of Kentucky, the maker of Jack Daniels Whiskey and Southern Comfort gave Mitch McConnell money for his campaign.

SENATOR McCONNELL MUST GET HR 1409, S 560 THE EMPLOYEE FREE CHOICE ACT ENACTED INTO LAW AND MUST PLEDGE THAT HIS ENTIRE REPUBLICAN CAUCUS NOT EXECUTE ANY REPUBLICAN FILIBUSTERS DURING THE OBAMA PRESIDENCY AND UNTIL THAT HAPPENS I WON’T BUY JACK DANIELS WHISKEY OR SOUTHERN COMFORT OR ANY OTHER OF BROWN-FORMAN’S PRODUCTS.

While free choice always sounds good, I don’t know how much freedom this actually creates for employees. Our government has become way too adept at doublespeak for me to take anything they say at face value. I belonged to a union, and while it always worked well for me, there is a definite potential for bureaucratic abuse. I have to say, that all things considered, I’m a pro-union girl. Somebody has to rein in corporate greed, and a solid union is a good start.

I demand that the congress and the President enact a $10 an hour minimum wage into law.
Congress and the President must enact a $10/HR MINIMUM WAGE into law and until this happens I will not go to any Republican contributor Wendy’s Restaurants.

I can live without Wendy’s for an increased minimum wage. However, why are we only boycotting Wendy’s? I’m pretty sure there are a lot more companies donating to Republicans than just Wendy’s with minimum wage employees that would be affected by this change.

I demand that Norm Coleman concede the Senate race.

The following companies gave money to Norm Coleman for his campaign.

Target Corp Stores $174,855 Phone 800 591 3869

3M Co Scotch tape and supplies $62,254 Phone 888 364 3577

Marriott International Hotels $43,400 Phone 888 236 2427

Best Buy Electronics Computers Stores $41,350 Phone 888-237-8289

General Mills Cereals $34,650 Phone 800-248-7310

I demand that you get Norm Coleman to concede the senate race and end his legal challenges to the result of the Minnesota senate race and the Senate seat to acknowledge Senator Al Franken as Senator from Minnesota and until that happens, I refuse to do business with 3M corporation, General Mills, Target Corporation, Best Buy Corporation and Marriott International Hotels.

OMG. They still haven’t sorted that out? What the hell? Obama has passed his first 100 days and they still haven’t sorted out who their Senator is? I thought Oklahoma was slow.

I demand that the congress and the President enact The Women’s Freedom of Choice Act into law.

I demand that the congress and the President enact The Freedom of Choice Act (H.R. 1964 / S. 1173) into law and until that happens I will not do business with Dominos Pizza and Curves for women’s health clubs (2 companies that actively give money to the forced birth of fetuses movement.)

I’m pro-choice, even if it’s not a choice I would make. It was too hard for me to get pregnant to ever terminate one. But I also know that for a lot of women it was not just their best choice, it was their only choice. Do I think a woman should be allowed to use abortion as post conception birth control because she was, for whatever reason, not using any birth control? NO, absolutely not. I also think that the whole “irresponsible slut casually aborting baby after baby” stereotype is a myth. I’ve met many women who have, for many different reasons, chosen to abort an unplanned pregnancy. None of them made the decision lightly, some of them made it unwillingly, many of them regretted it, none of them forgot it, and all of them bear the burden of “what if?”.