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Wow, Do We Have a Lot to Be Thankful for This Year. Now , About 2007....
By Rob Kall (about the author) Page 1 of 3 page(s)
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WE could have faced a dark thanksgiving where right wing extremists had consolidated their power, probably permanently, taking the US inevitably down the path to fascism.
We could have faced a dark thanksgiving where corporatists had finally broken the will of the American voter.
But instead, we now face a hopeful future, not a sure one, not one that we can be certain is rosy for the USA and its great masses of regular people.
But we have a chance. The congress has a chance.
We can't be sure about the congress. They will surely be subjected to temptations by the K street lobbyists.
Maybe today is a good day to pray for them, however you connect to the universe, to put some thought forms and energy into the idea that our new majority of legislators, and the Republicans who survived, with and without the help of election e-vote rigging, will all find, in their hearts and spirits the vision and integrity to do what's right for We The People, instead of what's good for big corporations and millionaires.
Call them prayers, hopes, wishes, even ultimatums... here are some ways the incoming congress could give us reason for thanks in 2007.
-Investigate, investigate, investigate and follow up with whatever legal mandates the investigations lead to, including impeachment.
-Pass a lot of legislation. Show that a congress can get things done, not just posture on wedge issues like gay marriage and flag burning.
-Revoke the war-making authority the congress gave to Bush/CHeney. Make it clear that the legislation passed after 9/11 is no longer alive. The revocation should make it clear that the original war authorization was based on a massive collection of lies. Make sure Cheney or any of the other misguided Neocon fools are not able to drag us into Iran. This should be the first step the new congress takes.
-Raise the minimum Wage to a living wage
-Clean up the Vote. Abolish HAVA, re-write Rush Holt's HR 550 and create a set of airtight laws that insure safe votes in all elections-- all federal elections, all state elections-- all local elections. Every vote is like a single cell in the body of democracy. If it isn't done in an honest, 100% trustworthy, rigging-impregnable way, then it is a threat to the whole body of democracy. And include tough punishments, so people who commit crimes against the vote are treated as murderers of democracy, with severe sentences, including the death penalty (think Katherine Harris and Ken Blackwell.)
-Provide Health Care for Every American take the VA health system, medicare and medicaid and create a hybrid that uses the best of these already existing national health care systems and bring the USA into the first world, like the rest of the wealthy nations on this planet, who care for all of their citizens. While we're at it, we'll be giving a real boost to the remaining industries surviving in the US, that have had to compete against companies in other countries, where health care provision was not a cost of doing business.
-Dump our Current Model of Economic Globalism it is designed for the few hundred largest corporations-- not for the people of the world. It is destroying industries in first world nations and enslaving and exploiting workers in third world nations, while privatizing what should be owned by the people, like oil, natural resources, water, land... We need a new, organic model of globalism, that recognizes that nations, like living organisms, must have "skins" to protect them, otherwise, they die. The US should either withdraw from WTO, NAFTA, CAFTA, etc., or insist on major changes.
Rob Kall is executive editor, publisher and site architect of OpEdNews.com, Host of the Rob Kall Bottom Up Radio Show (WNJC 1360 AM), President of Futurehealth, Inc, (more...)
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