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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE |
CONTACT: Congressman Dennis Kucinich Nathan White (202)225-5871 |
Kucinich on Supplemental: 'Cash for Clunkers and Bunkers'
WASHINGTON - June 9 - Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today made the following statement against the war supplemental on the House floor:
"It is good that our Administration is reaching out to the Muslim world. It is bad to spend another $100 billion to keep wars going which will kill innocent Muslims in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
"It is good that we try to create an incentive for people to buy efficient cars. It is bad that the car vouchers will not be expressly for the purchase of cars made in America. It is even worse that we tie such an incentive to a war funding bill. Cash for clunkers and bunkers in the same bill!
"Cash for more war in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. Cash to help China sell its cars to Americans.
"Meanwhile, back in the U.S. of A., factories and auto dealers are closing, people are losing their businesses, their jobs, their homes, their health care, their investments, their retirement security.
"Who are these people who keep coming up with these innovative ideas to keep wars going and to move jobs out of America? Who are these people?"
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Show AllObama did not promise to end all wars only the one in Iraq. He did promise to end American jobs going to foreign countries. It is time to let the Iraqi people prove to Americans that they are educated and intelligent people who can be personally responsible for their lives.End the war and occupation and use the money for National Health Care in America. Iraq had National Health Care before the first Gulf War. If we get out of the way maybe they can clean up their corrupt government and get the standard of living back that they had before we bombed and sanctioned and bombed them again. And America can get a standard of living with free education through college, health care for all and food and housing security for all citizens.
snydly
IT'S NOT SO MUCH, "WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE?", AS, WHAT CORPORATIONS ARE DOING THIS?
CORPS ARE REQUIRED BY LAW TO COME UP WITH THESE TYPES OF "SOLUTIONS".
CORPS RUN THE PROCESS.
CORPORATIONS FLOAT THE WRONG PEOPLE TO THE TOP OF OUR SYSTEM, FOR THE WRONG REASONS.
STRIP CORPORATIONS OF LEGAL "PERSONHOOD"!!
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"The next time you hear a motorist complaining of being soaked, mention the enormous sums in support that is handed to the industry by all taxpayers – where everyone pays for the privileged choice of the driver, directly and indirectly – and that includes paying with lives in fighting the wars for cheap oil."
Kurt Lesser
"The automobile has not merely taken over the street, it has dissolved the living tissue of the city. Its appetite for space is absolutely insatiable; moving & parked, it devours urban land, leaving the buildings as mere islands of habitable space in a sea of dangerous & ugly traffic." --James Marston Fitch, NY Times, May 1, l960.