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June 10, 2006
The Idiotic Priorities of the Right Wing Senators
Shayne Munger
To the Senators Who Voted For The Marriage Protection Amendment:
Thank God "real" Christians and Senators that are concerned about our
Constitution and our civil rights are fighting this attack on a
minority of American citizens by the lunatic religious right.
The time taken by the Senate, instigated by the pandering Republican
Leadership, to debate this divisive issue and bring it to a vote in
order to score political points with these religious right bigots is
absolutely outrageous.
Why aren't you addressing the real ":moral and family value" problems
that are battering the American family and the American citizens whom
you are supposed to represent?
Problems such as:
• Withdrawal of our troops from Iraq (Almost 2500 sons and daughters
of American families killed and thousands maimed and wounded).
• War profiteering by companies like Halliburton.
• Our Reserve and National Guard Units being redeployed to Iraq 3 and
4 times and the disastrous effect that this has on their families and
their readiness to fight disasters here at home.
• The decimation of our military by the inept leadership in the
Defense Department and in the Bush Administration.
• No bid contracts for favored corporations (i.e. Halliburton).
• The illegal Warrantless Domestic Spying by the NSA.
• The issuing of a huge number of Bill Signing Statements by President
Bush that are being attached to the laws passed by Congress that say
that he's above the law. (i.e. He isn't bound by the ban on torture
passed by a bipartisan vote by both Houses of Congress).
• The suspension of Habeas Corpus for detained American citizens.
• Torture of detainees.
• The suspension of part of the Geneva Convention on the treatment of
prisoners (In the military manual).
• Rendition of detainees by the CIA.
• Spying on American Citizens by the FBI and the Defense Department.
• Data mining of American Citizen's phone calls and emails by the NSA.
• Lack of oversight of the Administration by Congress and the
Judiciary.
• Cronyism and the "Culture of Corruption" in Washington.
• Clean Money Legislation for public campaign financing.
• Election Reform.
• The Medicare Part D debacle.
• A health care crisis in this country (45 million Americans without
health care).
• The 41 million Americans living in poverty (And and the number is
still growing).
• The relentless attack on the American poor and middle classes by our
corporate controlled Representatives in Congress (i.e. H1B Visas, the
proposed "guest" (NOT!!) worker program and the Free [unfair] US Trade
Agreements).
• The corporate written (by cheap labor advocates) and disastrous
Senate "Comprehensive" Immigration Bill.
• The absolutely disgracefully low minimum wage.
• Lack of Border Security (North, South and the East and West Ports).
• The redistribution of wealth from the poor and middle classes to the
rich which is being called the "Reverse Robin Hood Effect" (i.e. the
elimination of the Estate or so called "Paris Hilton" Tax).
• The collapse of the American auto industry (i.e. Delphi) and the
outsourcing of millions of good paying American jobs to cheap overseas
labor that are forced to work in shameful sweatshop conditions.
• Employers hiring illegal aliens and paying a lot less than the
prevailing wage.
• The selling off of American Industry to foreign firms (i.e. The
Dubai Ports Deal and 80% of the defense industry is owned by foreign
companies). We are losing our once mighty Industrial capacity.
• Obscene compensation and retirement packages for corporate
executives who promote a greedy, self serving, exploitative, unethical
and sometimes criminal corporate culture in American corporate
business dealings.
• The loss of fixed pension benefits and employer paid health plans by
millions of retirees.
• The formation of oligopolies and monopolies in key industries like
oil, energy and computer software that restrict competition and free
market price fluctuations and result in price gouging (i.e.
ExxonMobil).
• Union busting by corporations using favorable bankruptcy laws and
Republican appointed judges.
• The attack on our environment by ignoring global warming, drilling
in ANWR and the Continental Shelf, the building of roads for oil, gas
and mineral exploration in our National Forests, the gutting of the
endangered species act, the relaxation of the air quality standards
and on and on.
• Skyrocketing housing costs.
• The untenable rise in energy costs (gasoline at $3.20 per gallon and
heading to $5.00).
• The Prohibitive cost of higher education for our youth.
• The failure of our public education system and the No Child Left
Behind Act (60% of Hispanic students and 50% of black students don't
graduate from high school).
• Fixing the hurricane ravaged Gulf Coast.
• The 400,000 displaced Katrina and Rita survivors.
• Record Trade Deficits. Over $800 Billion last year. (China has
almost $1 Trillion in their current account that we owe them).
• A record budget deficit. Heading for $9 Trillion. This is over
$25,000 for every man, woman and child in the US. So the share of this
debt for the typical American family of 4 is over $100,000. (China
alone is lending us upwards of $2 Billion per day to finance this
debt).
• The Chinese military buildup is really threatening American
interests. They are now not only a threat to Taiwan but of all of Asia
and possibly the Western United States (Why are we trading with this
totalitarian Communist Government as a "Most Favored Nation" and
allowing them to use the billions of dollars in the trade surplus with
us to rapidly build up their military power?).
• Failure of this county's funding for first responders and the
failure of FEMA and the Administration in the Gulf Coast disasters.
• The nuclear trade deal with India (Our state of the art nuclear
technology for mangoes) and the resulting nuclear proliferation that
will follow.
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