A conservative Republican for Kucinich
Originally published by a reader at Pulse of the Twin Cities
Re: Dennis Kucinich is the man.
He sure is. He's changed me from a staunch conservative Republican into a Progressive independent, and he has my vote 100%.
Americans are crazy to keep voting conservative Republicans into power. They are a disaster and are ruining our great nation.
The Bush legacy so far is 9 million unemployed (over 7% in some states) and growing; 40 million Americans with no health insurance; (in W. Virginia 60% of the working people have no health insurance); health insurance premiums sky-rocketing to astronomical heights; health policies that deny, obstruct, delay, limit, restrict, and exclude instead of "helping you stay healthy"; pharmaceutical corportions that "price gouge" and charge extortionist prices to patients in exchange for their health, their lives, and leave them bankrupt of their life savings.
We attack Afghanistan, bomb 10,000 caves, capture 500 misguided terrorists and scatter the other 50,000 to the far corners of the world (to continue their murderous work). We then spend $70 billion to "shock and awe" Iraq to get their weapons of mass destruction; inspect 1000 sites and find none. One day after the statue of Saddam is pulled down, crowds are looting, pillaging, and chanting "death to America". We humble ourselves and promise to stay and spend $4 billion a month and promise $600 billion in all (including $16 billion for their electrical grid, as our own Northeast grid begins to flicker from old age).
On TV American soldiers are shown building schools in Afghanistan and Iraq as our own inner city schools crumble.
So conservative Republicans tell us the important issues of the day are the 150 year old state sodomy laws; pro-choice vs. pro-life; and gun control; and seniors who are sneaking in their Celebrex and Fosamax from Canada for half price.
Pat Robertson invites all of us to join in with the Christian Coalition to pray for the demise of 3 Supreme Court Justices.
We spend $350 billion on weapons and weapons systems to kill people, but can't find a few billion to help Americans dying because they are uninsured. Thousands upon thousands of Americans, young and old, died during the time period of the first President Bush to the time period of the second (inept) President Bush for lack of health care insurance, and the relentless brutality and ruthlessness of the American insurance industry in are partners in crime with the extortionist drug companies.
We won't provide desperate, needy Americans with the drugs they need for health and survival, and at the same time we spend billions trying to keep dangerous "streetdrugs" out of our country, and can't even succeed at doing that. How pathetic
Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) has a pragmatic, straightforward, common sense plan for Universal Health Care for all. He has a plan for 0% unemployment. He has a plan that won't lead to $450 billion dollar deficits. He has a plan that will curtail the raping of America by the insurance/pharmaceutical/energy/telecommunications "crime syndicate" that pays $60 million to CEO's that bankrupt their own companies.
Our roads continue to fall apart; our bridges are in need of repair; and we have over 400 dams in the U.S. that are in critical need of repair.
Bush instead wants to slap Syria in the face; make Iran a hotbed of radical Islamics; bring North Korea to the brink of war with our belligerence; and berate and bully Cuba.
Yes, I used to be a conservative Republican.
Yesterday, I woke up, unemployed, uninsured, broke, with my health shot. And I just got plain tired of watching the color coded terrorist alert system on TV; watching the UN Iraq headquarters get blown to bits (with its respected and admired leader murdered by fanatics that absolutely do not want freedom); and listening to Bush about how we were going to "smoke 'em out" and "bring 'em ta justice", "dead or alive".
Are we all going nuts?
James Boyne
301 Harbor Pointe Dr. Apt 6
Mt. Pleasant, SC 29464
1-843-216-1811
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