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Location: Michigan, United States

2005-07-09

Why Republican Leadership is Ruining this Country

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Oh, there are other reasons, certainly. But in a time where blue collar jobs are leaving our shores, Bush pushes CAFTA despite the perils to the working population that have come with NAFTA. In a time where white collar jobs are leaving our shores in the age of the remote worker, John Kerry calls for measures to help slow (but not end) the outward tide, but loses to Bush, who would just as soon exacerbate the problem if it means a better bottom line to his cronies and puppeteers. In this time, we ignore the evidence of companies that consider moving work IN. Companies that consider investing vast sums of money INTO our country turn to the north, for a better educated workforce.

In a time where cost growth in health care insurance, prescription drug prices and malpractice insurance outpace the growth of prices in the rest of the economy by large margins, we make no move to slow the pace. We make no move to curb or inhibit the appetite for greed of these companiesInstead, we pass laws making it MORE difficult for those bankrupted by the costs of illness to actually receive debt forgiveness, one of the rights our citizens have always enjoyed, but one that has unfortunately interfered with the unending march of the Credit Card industry to pilfer the nation's citizens of all of their earnings through an unending march of bait-n-switch cheap debt offerings. In this time, we ignore the evidence of companies that consider moving work IN. Companies that consider investing vast sums of money INTO our country turn to the north, for a less-expensive health care burden.

Make fun of Canada all you want. Many often do. But they have found a new trick to pull jobs away from the US.

Our Republican leadership, and the string-pulling, lobbyist enablers that pander for the corporations and the wealthy, will continue to push to make the top of the money ladder higher, and the rungs at the bottom fewer and further between. In short, Republicans and the hyper-greed that feeds them are ruining this country's economic might.

mcolley
I'm not liberal, I'm just paying attention

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