When Are We Going to Take Charge?
The concentration on who will be the next president has called up a spirit of competition that seems to be drowning out a terribly important aspect of the coming election.
Many members of the party that has dragged the U.S. into war, destroyed our standing in the world, brought torture into the lexicon of behavior that isn't prosecuted, covered up torture and legal issues with secrecy claims that keep innocent men in prison, brought our economy to disaster - members of this party are resigning and backing out in droves from defending their position. I guess there isn't enough money to buy back what these crooks have thrown away.
We have a chance to give decency a voice in the legislative branch as well as in the executive branch. Supreme Court vacancies also loom, with the opportunity to bring justice back into the national government. This is a huge, once in a lifetime, chance for us all.
In this blog, I've more than once pointed out the huge effort Big Oil is making to ward off a turnover in our district that would give their representative in a well-earned retirement. I repeat a point made by the history professor, Dr. Glenn Melancon, who is seeking to replace the elderly Rep. Hall, concerning an oil consortium Rep. Hall shares with Rep. Joe Barton, that receives government subsidies for drilling;
It's insane to give away tax payer dollars to big oil at a time of record profits. We're having to pay for our gas twice -- once at the pump and once at the IRS. I'd rather see our money invested in American universities and research facilities. Our scientists and young scholars will find a way to break the monopoly of big oil once and for all. Our future as a nation depends upon alternative energy and conservation technologies. We need to look forward, not backward.
These issues exist on your level, some of you have crusading media or internet concerned citizens who are trying to expose the misuse of government, and especially of your funds. I really want to see all of us get interested, get active, work for the kind of people who should hold public offices, and public trust.
We need to represent ourselves, not be dictated to by the corporations that have a stranglehold on our local, state, and federal government in so many areas.
For awhile, I was frustrated enough to foresee taking to the streets. I think that first of all, we need to get the information we need to act. Then we need to get busy. It isn't too late for the honest progressives. It's only too late for the criminals. They have proven what they are, and they need to be rejected at the ballot box.
Many members of the party that has dragged the U.S. into war, destroyed our standing in the world, brought torture into the lexicon of behavior that isn't prosecuted, covered up torture and legal issues with secrecy claims that keep innocent men in prison, brought our economy to disaster - members of this party are resigning and backing out in droves from defending their position. I guess there isn't enough money to buy back what these crooks have thrown away.
We have a chance to give decency a voice in the legislative branch as well as in the executive branch. Supreme Court vacancies also loom, with the opportunity to bring justice back into the national government. This is a huge, once in a lifetime, chance for us all.
In this blog, I've more than once pointed out the huge effort Big Oil is making to ward off a turnover in our district that would give their representative in a well-earned retirement. I repeat a point made by the history professor, Dr. Glenn Melancon, who is seeking to replace the elderly Rep. Hall, concerning an oil consortium Rep. Hall shares with Rep. Joe Barton, that receives government subsidies for drilling;
It's insane to give away tax payer dollars to big oil at a time of record profits. We're having to pay for our gas twice -- once at the pump and once at the IRS. I'd rather see our money invested in American universities and research facilities. Our scientists and young scholars will find a way to break the monopoly of big oil once and for all. Our future as a nation depends upon alternative energy and conservation technologies. We need to look forward, not backward.
These issues exist on your level, some of you have crusading media or internet concerned citizens who are trying to expose the misuse of government, and especially of your funds. I really want to see all of us get interested, get active, work for the kind of people who should hold public offices, and public trust.
We need to represent ourselves, not be dictated to by the corporations that have a stranglehold on our local, state, and federal government in so many areas.
For awhile, I was frustrated enough to foresee taking to the streets. I think that first of all, we need to get the information we need to act. Then we need to get busy. It isn't too late for the honest progressives. It's only too late for the criminals. They have proven what they are, and they need to be rejected at the ballot box.
Labels: Election 2008, Free Press
posted by Ruth at 7:59 AM
2 Comments:
exxon still owes something like $4.6 billion for the disaster of the valdez.
after two years of history-making profits in the billions of $$, it seems that they could be shamed, through a concerted public relations effort, into paying up.
i think many, many folks ~ politicians as well as average joes and josephines ~ are missing the fact that corporate ownership of our government is one of the greatest dangers we face.
I not certain that passive action is going to work. The Corporations have dug in for the long haul, and the only way to remove their talons it to pull them out of our backs.
Progressives, until they have the media's ear, will remain underreported, and pushed to the back of the room (John Edwards?). I have felt that the only way for this country to shake off it's friendly Corporate Facists is with an armed struggle, which was quelled back in FDR's time.
I wish I could be more positive, but with the introduction of HD DVD players, and large Asia manufactured Big Flat Screen TV's, the citizens of this failing country will be lulled back to sleep.
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