If Liz were Queen

and how did Sam Johnson vote?

Did he vote for the Heroes of 9/11?

Hell no.  Sam Johnson voted party line just like he has for the past 20 years.

If you think that it is right to use 9/11 as the reason for declaring war on Iraq, a country that had absolutely NOTHING to do with the destruction of the Twin Towers.

If you like all the flag waving and phony patriotism over 9/11.

If you think that is is right for our nation and our elected officials to turn their backs on the brave men and women who responded to this disaster.  If you don’t give a damn for the American workers, then you go ahead and vote for Sam Johnson this November because he and 158 of his good ole boys, just like his good ole boy Collin County Commissioners who gave Johnson’s son a  multimillion dollar no bid contract in 2006, agree with you.

If  you want obstructionism politics, if you want continued handouts to the rich, then you go ahead and vote for Sam Johnson. If you are in Joe Barton’s district [ the  corporate apologetic weasel],  or Pete Session’s district and believe that we should turn our backs on these heroes, then you go ahead and vote for those good ole boys too.  Sam Johnson, Pete Sessions and Joe Barton are all three disgusting peas in the same pod for the rich who believe that heroes are to be used–not supported.  Of course, Sam Johnson appears to be suffering from memory loss because he has had his way paid by the American taxpayer his entire long life of 80 years.

Don’t take my word for it GO HERE TO SEE HOW THESE TRES AMIGOS VOTED.

H.R.  847

Tea Party Darlings like Michele Bachmann also turned their backs on the heroes of 9/11.

KICK THEM ALL OUT!

Nothing quite illustrates the plutocrats that we have running our country than the stories of two yachts.

I ask  you–how much do you think that you have in common with either of these multimillionaires.  Do  you think they even have a clue regarding your daily life on main street?

REPUBLICAN YACHT STORY

Jeff Greene Multimillionaire Florida [Republican Libertarian posing as a Democrat] running for the senate pledged to spend $40 million just to run a primary campaign against Kendrick Meek for a shot at the Florida Senate seat.  Greene might consider using some of that money to pay the country of Belize for the damage his yacht did to their coral reefs.  His 145-foot yacht destroyed a coral reef five years ago, and he owes $1.87 million in fines.

DEMOCRAT YACHT STORY

Senator John Kerry Multimillionaire Democratic Senator says that he intended to pay Massachusetts Taxes on his $7 million yacht but concedes he mishandled the public furor over his decision to dock the vessel in tax-free Rhode Island.  The Democrat moved to end the controversy this week by saying he would write Massachusetts a check for about $500,000, whether he owed the money or not.

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Then there are other Republicans like Sam Johnson of the House of Representatives who, while  not a multimillionaire, has received in excess of $2 million in salary from the taxpayers for the past 20 years and has no doubt been influential in assisting his son in becoming a  multimillionaire. In 2006 the Collin County Commissioners awarded Bob Johnson, his son, a multimillion dollar no-bid contract to manage the North Central Texas Fusion Center.  Bob Johnson does not even live in the state, much less the region.  He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Sam likes yachts just as well as any multimillionaire and he proves it with his votes time and again.  For example: Sam Johnson doesn’t think that pe0ple who live on Main Street deserve to have their homes saved and he proved it by voting against H.R. 1106 “Helping Families Save their Homes Act.”  This bill authorizes bankruptcy courts to modify the terms of mortgages made on homeowners’ primary residences, a practice which is barred by current law.  However the current Bankruptcy law permits such restructuring for vacation home and yachts.

“I don’t have to worry. As long as Sam Johnson is in office, my yacht and vacation homes are protected.

At what point do our local Governments stop treating Wall Street Polluters as if they have a right to destroy the environment and force people to work for slave wages?

Perhaps we should say no when we can no longer even go to our beaches, lake shores and river banks, much less swim in the water that has been polluted by industrial discharge and oil spills.

Perhaps we should say no when  the majority of all animal species have become extinct because of industrial pollution.

Perhaps we should say no, you can’t have a free ride  when we realize that there may not be another generation because slave wages paid by Wall Street corporations, combined with the high prices for food are not sufficient to sustain life.  We already see evidences of this all over the world and the USA is no exception.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) reported that in 2008:

• Of the 49.1 million people living in food insecure households (up from 36.2 million in 2007), 32.4 million are adults (14.4 percent of all adults) and 16.7 million are children (22.5 percent of all children).
• 17.3 million people lived in households that were considered to have “very low food security,” a USDA term (previously denominated “food insecure with hunger”) that means one or more people in the household were hungry over the course of the year because of the inability to afford enough food. This was up from 11.9 million in 2007 and 8.5 million in 2000.

If so, it will have to begin with people in  local governments and local Chamber of Commerce’s who stop making any kind of a deal with Wall Street corporations to attract business to their communities.

In Texas, we see this at a state level with our governor who is willing to allow industry to pollute our air and our water.

This faulty logic of an “either/or” mentality must end if we are sustain life on our planet. We have been hoodwinked for years by special interests into thinking that either they must have their way and be allowed to pollute and take unnecessary risks with worker safety and all without paying their fair share of taxes or they won’t bring their business to town.  We must have local leaders who have the courage and insight to say no.  No it is YOU who must be responsible and pay your taxes to the community that you use.  It is YOU who must reduce YOUR profits.  It is YOU who must not put our community at risk for your profits.

OTHERWISE, we will use our tax dollars to create community corporations.  Every community in America should have at least two community corporations that are owned by shareholders who live in the community.  This is the only way to stabilize local economies.  Wall Street corporations do not own their alliance to the communities that they pollute.  They owe their alliance to their global shareholders.

If local communities don’t start making them behave–no one will.

DEMAND THAT YOUR LOCAL GOVERNMENT STOP HANDING OVER YOUR COMMUNITY TO WALL STREET.

Another area where local communities are vulnerable is with food security.  To the extent possible, all food consumed locally should be grown locally and/or in the nearby region.

In Rick Perry’s Texas, no sacrifice is too great for a job–and that includes giving up the air you breathe.

Perry’s commission over the years has granted over 140 pollution permits to large petrochemical companies and other large industries in an attempt to skirt the Clean Air Act.  That is why we have an orange alert OZONE alert several times a month in Texas.

If you don’t know what “Dog Whistle Politics” are, then get an education.

If you think that it is any accident that Glenn Beck chose August 28 as the day for his “non-political”  ,  “Restoring the Honor” rally, then you don’t understand dog whistle politics and you don’t realize that August 28th marks the 47th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream speech” which was delivered at the foot of the Lincoln Memorial.

Although Glenn Beck has told attendees that his “Restoring Honor” rally will be a “nonpolitical rally,” it will feature speeches by Sarah Palin and Ted Nugent and is partially sponsored by the National Rifle Association.

The latest edition of the NRA’s magazine First Freedom features a full-page front cover ad for the rally.

In other words, these nuts could not be more direct than if they were sending the message to the criminally insane that it is acceptable to put a bullet in Obama’s head.