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Next year, I want Congress to focus on the following easy to understand, two word issues:

– Green Jobs

– End War

– Health Care

– Net Neutrality

I oppose the $25 billion in emergency loans to the auto industry because these companies got themselves into this mess with a short-sighted, unsustainable, and inconsiderate business model that should not be rewarded in any way.. and that’s what this would be, a reward for bad behavior.

If they’d spent their money making cars made to last, cars that used less and alternative fuels, cars that were still made in America – they wouldn’t be in this mess. If they hadn’t spent billions of dollars lobbying to fight regulation for greater fuel efficiency, paying their executives 400 times more than their employees, and gambling profits they would never earn on the stock market – they wouldn’t be in this mess.

If they’d still been making fewer, quality cars and earning steady, modest profits held responsibly, then they’d instead be weathering through this downturn in purchases without suffering any “crisis”.

So they want billions of our hard-earned tax dollars? How about they stop making cars we don’t need and start making wind, solar, and thermal generators that we DO need?

How could you or anyone vote for this terrible, horrible, worthless Bailout Bill? These banker and wall street crooks have already taken and lost our money once. You have to give them MORE of it? You think they’ll give any of this back to us, the American people? Fat chance..

To every senator who failed to stop the war(s), impeach the Bush administration, this and all the other failures of congress, don’t expect to get re-elected.

I oppose the proposed bailout plan because it gives evil, reckless, rich swindlers even more profits from their irresponsible gambling with our money, with guess what, tax dollars which are again, our money.

The general public.. the working class, is getting screwed over TWICE if this proposal is enacted.

If rich people are gambling futures on payments they knew we’d never be able to pay – THEY are the ones who should be tapped to bail US out. Not the other way around.

Ever heard of fiscal responsibility?

Alternative energy IS the answer both in the short term and especially in the long term. And by alternative I mean energy derived from the wind, tide, sun, and thermal vents – energy that is infinitely renewable, does not pollute, and has the potential to be generated as well as consumed by the general public,

Drilling is NOT the answer for anything but higher gas company profits, higher gas prices, more oil spills, and rampant exploitation of land, sea, air, & people that should be protected forever. Once areas are lost, they may never fully come back.

Other forms of digging for energy that aren’t answers are nuclear, coal, and in a way, ethanol. These are dirty forms of energy, which not only damage the Earth but keep the process of generating power out of the hands of the public – making us all needlessly dependent on for-profit corporations who are the only source of fuel.

I will vote for the Obamiden ticket for President because they are by far the lesser evil.. also because there is much more of a chance that if elected, Obama will be receptive to the needs of citizens who pressure him to make our policies better serve the people of this country – all the people of this country. That chance will not exist with McCain and his token running mate.

I have plenty of criticisms surrounding all four of them (Obama, Biden, McCain, & Palin) that I wouldn’t have if better candidates had not intentionally excluded from the running (like Kucinich, Nader, McKinney.. maybe even Paul) by media and political – for lack of a better word – elites. But far more criticism can be heaped on the Republican ticket, McPalin and everyone surrounding them are some of the most evil people on the planet; we can’t let them continue the shameless inhumanity of leadership which defines the Bush administration.

With Obama, I have some hope of not just change but improvement, of the chance that he and his administration will listen to us – we the people, not we the corporate lobbyists.

I know he’s making a lot of concessions to gain support from the owners of powerful industries.. but I also know that he has a shred of compassion for people beyond than his inner circle. If he doesn’t lose that on the way to the white house, then we have a chance to start saving this country.. this planet, from significant disaster. Because the road to disaster is what we are on, what Bush has accelerated, and what McCain would continue if he had a chance of being elected.

So it’s not all tea and roses.. but that’s why Obama and Biden will have my vote. They’re the best choice that industry has allowed us to vote on. They are the best chance we have for a better future.

I support voter registration in these facilities because if they’re in the military, hurt or not, they’re citizens and have every right to be able to vote and have that vote count.. particularly since for many of the injured, the reason why they’re currently being treated is a direct result of decisions made by elected officials.

Please help reverse this decision to prohibit voter registration in VA funded facilities.