Giving Credit Where It’s Due
By Nancy Greggs
If you’re out of work because your government made it financially worthwhile for US companies to outsource your job to a cheaper labor market, THANK JOE.
If your son/daughter in the military is in a combat zone without sufficient equipment or training, THANK JOE.
If your war-wounded spouse is a war vet tied up in endless red tape and can’t get medical treatment or disability payments, THANK JOE.
If a loved one died in NOLA for want of food, water, medicine, or assistance of any kind in the aftermath of Katrina, THANK JOE.
If you’re upset that New Orleans was left in ruins while we could afford to build a billion-dollar embassy in Baghdad, THANK JOE.
If the cost of your life-saving prescription medicine has skyrocketed, even to the point where you can’t afford it at all, THANK JOE.
If you lose sleep at night worrying about the national debt your children and grandchildren will have to pay off in the decades to come, THANK JOE.
If you’re concerned about the fact that we don’t have the necessary funds to overhaul our crumbling infrastructure, THANK JOE.
If you’re worried about rising numbers in the incidents of homelessness and poverty, THANK A JOE.
If you’ve had to declare bankruptcy, but you still owe your soul to credit card companies, THANK JOE.
If you’ve noticed that you’re continually getting gouged at the pump even though oil companies are raking in record profits, THANK JOE.
If you’re angry at the fact that you have to go through intensive screening at the airport to board a plane with a hold full of uninspected cargo, THANK JOE.
If you wonder why hard-working middle-class citizens have to pay their full share of taxes while wealthy individuals and corporations don’t have to pay their fair share, THANK JOE.
If you wonder why investigations into government corruption always seem to get stopped in their tracks, THANK JOE.
If you think it unseemly that fabrications and outright lies are permitted to be broadcast as unqualified fact, THANK JOE.
If you worry about your kids getting sick from tainted food that should have been inspected but wasn’t, THANK JOE.
If you’re concerned that religious fanatics have too much influence over your government, THANK JOE
If you’re troubled by the erosion of your rights and freedoms and see that as an assault on democracy, THANK JOE.
If you are appalled by excuse-making and passing-the-buck having replaced accountability, THANK JOE.
If you have realized that the American Dream is now out-of-reach for millions of citizens, that the gap between the rich and the poor is growing at an alarming rate, that elections are no longer a matter of the will of the people but the whim of those who control the voting machines, that a nation that was once a Beacon of Democracy is now a nation that tortures, that the democratic country you were born and raised in is now indistinguishable from the worst dictatorship, that the Constitution is now treated as an antiquated document of no meaning, and that the country your ancestors fought and died for is no longer recognizable …
… don’t forget to THANK JOE.
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Great post Bruce!
What is wrong with you people? This from the same Bruce Fealk who stood out in the cold snow shouting at Knollenberg's congressional office.
Do you guys recall that Hillary Clinton, the likely Democrat nominee for president in 2008, voted for the Iraq war in 2002? She did so because her husband also believed Saddam had weapons of mass destruction as did the CIA, the rest of the intelligence community and our friend and ally, Great Britain.
No sense looking back now. We should fix the situation in Iraq through bipartisan cooperation. Bipartisan vote approved the war, bipartisan solution ends it in a victory for America.
BTW - There were more than 600 people who recently showed up to honor our soldiers in Iraq. The dinner, which raised scholarship funds for the kids of fallen soldiers, shows that we are still a patriotic country that respects the brave men and women who serve in the military. Congressman Knollenberg spoke at this dinner and got a standing ovation.
This isn't the 60s. And Iraq ain't Vietnam.
Sorry, Bruce.
P.S. - Do you have a preferred candidate for president in 2008? Is it Dennis Kuchinich or some other leftist like him?
Trent, I don't understand what Hillary Clinton has to do with Joe's votes and his constantly ignoring his constituents.
It's funny how Republicans are crying bipartisanship not that they're in the minority.
You're right Trent, this isn't Vietnam, it's worse and we have a totalitarian Congressman and President representing us and it's time to get rid of both of them.
I notice how Republican have been showing their respect for the troops by cutting Veterans benefits, making them pay for their meals at hospitals, and letting them live in squalid conditions at Walter Reed.
If Congressman Knollenberg had any guts, he's start voting for the good of America and not for the good of Joe Knollenberg and the Republican party.
TLW -- Are you attacking Bruce for exercising his 1st Amendment right to free speech?
Why do you hate the Constitution?
Why do you hate our freedoms.
And it doesn't matter how Senator Clinton or anyone else voted in 2002 -- this post is about all the things that Joe Knollenberg has done wrong.
Read the title of the Blog "VOTE NO ON JOE (KNOLLENBERG)" -- it has nothing to do with Senator Clinton or Senator Kerry, or anyone you want to discuss.
I always love reading Nancy Gregg's writing on DU -- thanks for posting this here, Bruce.
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