|
Pulse of the Twin Cities Login |
|
If you do not have an account yet
Create One.
|
|
|
Twin Town High (vol. 8) |
|
|
|
|
Kerry...Fossil Fuels...Fahrenheit 9/11...
Thursday 01 July @ 13:36:11 |
 Dirty tricks against Kerry
On Tuesday, June 22, Senator Kerry was in Washington D.C. to vote on health benefits bill for veterans. Rather than allow the vote to take place, the partisan Republicans stalled to keep Kerry off the campaign trail and deny him a vote in support of war veterans. The Republicans put partisan politics ahead of veteran’s rights and what is right for America.
I guess it should come as no surprise since President Bush needs all the help he can get. Dubya inherited peace, prosperity, budget surpluses, and international respect. Now we have an unjustified war based on lies, the highest job losses since the Herbert Hoover administration, the largest budget deficit in the history of the world, and rampant anti-American resentment cause by a president who is arrogant, condescending, and dismissive to his critics. 
Rather than do what is right for Americans in general and veterans specifically, the Senate Republican’s choose to help out their heroes: the bumbling, incompetent, dishonest Dubya and his sidekick Dick ‘F word’ Cheney. In November I hope the veterans choose a decorated war hero over someone who used his daddy to get into the National Guard flying the friendly skies over Texas before mysteriously disappearing.
Russ Broadway
Sacramento, CA
(Former Minneapolis resident)
Fossil fuels are killing us
The mindless pigs that are driving the monster vanity vehicles are not only pouring unnecessary, excessive amounts of cancerous filth and greenhouse gases into our air, they are driving up fuel costs for the world including heating fuel that few Minnesotans can live without. We could bring incredible wealth and increased health to our state if we put in place a virtually painless and modest conservation program.
We produce zero fossil fuels in Minnesota and this means that unnecessary billions of dollars flow out of our state every year. A few cents’ increase in the gas tax and a tax break for the most efficient automobiles, and maybe constant public service announcements urging or begging people to live closer to their occupations, could eventually save and generate enough money to ensure that we never have another budget deficit and enough to lower income taxes for everybody.
It would slow the flow of billions of dollars out of the state to the oil monopolies. We could then slow or reduce the growing amount of filth and greenhouse gasses that we pour into our air. Another thing we should be doing is to raise the taxes on those who use wasteful amounts of electricity and lower or eliminate the tax on those who use it most efficiently.
These things are not happening, because in America we are ruled and controlled by the powerful oil and coal industries among others. These powerful corporations support people like the eco-criminals in the White House. Decades ago, we the people, should have taken control of these industries. In the United States about nine oil companies control about 99 percent of all the country’s oil. They work hand in hand with corporations like General Murders Corporation of Detroit, which make most of the obscenely inefficient dunderhead vehicles that are destroying our country, causing a pandemic of cancer and turning America the beautiful into a raging nightmare of freeway, asphalt, parking lots, pollution and perversity and bringing our planet ever closer to global disaster.
Don Johnson
Minneapolis
Fahrenheit 9/11 does public service
A recent Minneapolis Star Tribune preview of Michael Moore’s “Fahrenheit 9-11” suggested that shortcomings of the film include the lack of freshness in some of his observations and the personal nature of his criticisms. Everyone is supposedly aware that the children of the rich and powerful are typically able to avoid military service or at least military service in harm’s way. So shut up about it. And showing clips of George W. Bush’s own obnoxious joking about his loyalty to the wealthy and the super wealthy is somehow unfair.
The truth is that our nation currently suffers the largest gap between the wealthy and the average and poor of any nation on earth and that the tax policies begun with Reagan and continued by our current Bush and the Republican Party have only served to widen that gap. Meanwhile they starve and force higher fees for an endless list of services, from veteran’s medical benefits to college tuitions, that make a decent life possible for ordinary people.
We, the ordinary people, do not have $2,000 or $20,000 or $200,000 apiece to help fund paid political announcements repeatedly naming the pros and cons of the present situation from our point of view. Michael Moore has created a subscriber funded paid political announcement that is entertaining enough to help us sit through the visceral depiction and naming of harsh truths. He cheers us on by giving us a way to come together, to not give up hope, but to keep working for a change in the balance of power between the rich and ordinary people of this society. It bears repeating and it is powerful.
Michael Gardos Reid
Minneapolis
|
|
 |
|
|
Comments -
Post Comment |
|
The comments are owned by the poster. We are not responsible for its content.
NO comments yet! Be the first!
|
|
|
