First off, I must apolojize for a number of things. I have no exact sources these days. If did want to use them I seriously
do not know which source to use. I get my news these days from Politico, Democratic Underground, Daily Kos, the Guardian UK,
Grist, BBC news, 350.org, Common Dreams (my all time favorite website), the Hill, the Washington Post, and the New York Times. And youtube of course.
Oy vey…
The senate has passed a deeply flawed health care bill. The senate may or may not pass a deeply flawed climate bill. The senate will
( with all the ruckus, infighting in both parties, and hate and fear across the nation) pass an obviously flawed immigration bill.
Why does the senate not treat all bills as the same ? Health care, climate, and immigration are deeply interconnected.
Hey Graham and Reid, wake up, o.k.?
Health care needs single payer. Like Medicare for all, o.k.? Certainly better than the corporations…
The mainstream seems to think all environmentalists are for the climate bill-wrong! The current bill as it stands is cap and trade.
As I understand it the cap will work but trading and offsetting is an open invitation to corruption. We must have either carbon tax or
cap and dividend (this last I do not know but I hear it is better than carbon tax (cap and dividend put forth by either McKibben or Hanson–
forgive me I have forgotten which one. I am very upset by all the concessions made to corporations such as oil and coal. There was just a mining disaster in which many people died. An oil rig just exploded giving out more oil than the Exxon Valdez… At least I am proud
Cape Wind was passed.
Immigration. What Arizona has done has signed a bill condoning racism pure and simple. It’s called profiling, I believe. And once you recquire all people to carry documents everywhere there is the end of democracy. Why does Arizona not ask the federal government
what it and the IMF, World Bank, and World Treaty Organization have done to aggravate the situation? NAFTA has forced the people of
Mexico (giving corn to the US, working slave wages) to move north as they see a better life. And sooner or later the peoples of the Global South will be moving north anyway-as climate refugees.
I would try to add links right now but it is two in the morning and I am so angry…
Another idea: “It’s the money, stupid!” right? I get the feeling a lot of these bills are connected to money and corporations and our corrupt
government. Well then, scrap all the bills. I mean it. Scrap them until we get the three trillion and more we are spending in Iraq and Afghanistan! Maybe then people will be more receptive.
Please respond…
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