Pete's BLOG-Day 26,558. What GOP control mean

Today is Tuesday, August 6, 2013. My stats today: 10 minutes of yoga, 10 minutes on the ball and 45 minutes of walking = 2.5 miles for an August total of 9.0 miles. Mt weight was 163.0 pounds. QUOTE from Gandhi of India: "I like your Christ. I do not like Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ." (so true as far as I'm concerned.) My THOUGHTS today are on politics in the state of North Carolina. I read this in the 8/12/13 TIME Magazine. North Carolina went straight Republican in 2010 - Governor Pat McCrory is a hard right-winger and both houses of the legislature have huge GOP majorities. The legislation passed and signed by McCrory is scary and an indication of what will happen if the GOP wins the presidency and the Congress in 2016. Here are the new LAWS in North Carolina. 1. Blocked an expansion of Medicaid enabled by Obamacare. 2. Reduced access to federal unemployment benefits. 3. Cut the corporate tax rate. 4. Trimmed public-education funding. 5. Allowed concealed weapons in bars and restaurants. 6. Proposed a ban on Islamic Shari'a ( Boy, is that ever needed!!!!) 7. Enacted voter-identification laws that will also curb same-day registration. These new laws are the most stringent of any state so far. 8. Restricted access to abortion - it bans publicly funded health insurance from covering most abortions. (Down the road we could see more of GOP goals for the U.S. SUCH AS: All entitlements must be lowered or eliminated starting with welfare, housing, food stamps, unemployment, education, disability. health care, and minimum wage laws. And destroy and eradicate unions).