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John McCain shows a misguided and dangerous naivete about national security. He is preoccupied about whether or not Barack Obama had ties to the Weather Underground when he was eight years old, but is unconcerned about his association with Tod Palin. Palin is a member or the Alaskan Independence Party, an organization that advocates secession from the United States, and whose members recently referred to the US as a "...monster..." and whose motto is "...we don't say we are Americans...."
 
McCain's solution to this would be to plaster an American flag in Tod Palin's lapel and send him to some NRA meetings, but common sense would indicate that there should be some concern about a man who openly advocates sedition, is married to your Vice-President, and who can see Russia from his house.
 
Neil Thex, CPA
1024 W. Pampa Avenue
Mesa, Arizona  85210
Phone: (602) 957-0096 (Office)
           (480) 838-7547 (Home)
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Email: neilthexcpa@yahoo.com

Steelworkers President Slams Palin: 'Stop Using Your Husband's Membership in the USW as a Prop'

Posted by Ali, Think Progress at 11:33 AM on September 4, 2008.

When Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) introduced Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate, he trumpeted her husband's union membership: "The person I'm about to introduce to you was a union member and is married to a union member, and understands the problems, the hopes and the values of working people," he said. That day, and again last night, Palin also emphasized that her husband is "a proud member of the United Steelworkers Union."

Conservatives are hoping the reference will play well in Michigan and Ohio. But the United Steelworkers union (USW) isn't so pleased. USW President Leo Gerard noted that just because Todd Palin is a union member doesn't mean that Palin is automatically qualified to represent labor interests:

It is important to realize that while the governor's husband is a member of a union, this does not automatically qualify her for an on-the-job training program to become a heartbeat away from the presidency. And while her husband is one of 850,000 dues-paying members of the steelworkers union, it does nothing to absolve Sen. McCain of his long history of anti-union sentiment and anti-worker actions.

In fact, McCain's hostility to unions and union priorities runs deep:

- McCain voted to block the Employee Free Choice Act, making it easier for workers to unionize. [6/26/07]

- McCain condemned unions as "serious excesses" and said government workers are "crippled" by union contracts. [10/9/07; 5/21/07]

- McCain voted to filibuster minimum wage hike in 2007 [1/24/07]

- McCain voted against a bill protecting discrimination against workers who go on strike, effectively allowing companies to hire permanent replacements for striking workers. [S. 55, 7/13/94]

- McCain voted against an amendment providing more effective remedies to victims of gender discrimination in the payment of wages. [7/17/07]

Last night, Gerard demanded that Palin "stop using USW as a prop." Noting McCain's opposition to the top priorities on USW's agenda, Gerard asked Palin:

Are you with McCain - and against workers - on these issues? If so, you need to stop using your husband's membership in the USW as a prop, because then his union card cannot possibly cover up your or John McCain's worker-savaging positions.

 In Solidarity,

 Jamaal L. Craig
United Steelworkers
 Political Department

Along with the 100-year war in Iraq, the McCain platform promises to make the upper-bracket tax cuts permanent after he is elected President.  The upper-bracket tax cuts were financed with borrowed money, to the tune of $400 billion per year for seven years and counting.  After McCain makes these upper-bracket tax cuts permanent, it ensures that the Bush deficits will be repaid by the middle-bracket taxpayers and their children and grandchildren, who did not get a tax cut during the Bush years, nor did they get to participate in the seven-year Republican orgy of Spend, Borrow, and Steal.
 
By the time the upper-bracket tax cuts are made permanent, McCain will have completed history's largest transfer of wealth from the pockets of middle-bracket taxpayers into the pockets of upper-bracket taxpayers.  It remains to be seen whether this social engineering in reverse will be of any long-term benefit to the US economy, although the US economy hasn't benefited particularly well so far. 
 
This reverse social engineering will make it easier for John McCain  to raise large amounts of money from grateful sources, and it is reasonable to assume that those donors may expect something in return down the road, also on the backs of the middle-class taxpayers.  McCain has already prostituted himself and sealed the deal with a full-body hug of George Bush last week, and George Bush danced for the cameras. 
 
Neil Thex, CPA
1024 W. Pampa Avenue
Mesa, Arizona  85210
Phone: (602) 957-0096 (Office)
           (480) 838-7547 (Home)
FAX: (602) 381-3130
Email: neilthexcpa@yahoo.com
Back in the seventies, during the Watergate hearings, the late columnist Art Buchwald remarked about how nicely attired the Nixon men were, and that they all wore American Flag lapel pins as they perjured themselves before the Watergate committee.   Buchwald concluded his column that "...the moral of this story is that even if you wear an American Flag pin in your lapel, you shouldn't lie to a grand jury..."
 
The American Flag in the lapel has been prostituted by the Republicans, and now represents an intent to commit perjury rather than an expression of patriotism.  I don't blame Obama for not wanting to wear it. 
 
Neil Thex

Why Voters Want Change in 2008

Democracy Corps, a non-profit research group, just posted an interesting document on its website. The national study published on October 30, 2007 reports on the results of focus groups and surveys about the state of the country and Democrats.  In the report, “Finding Their Voice as Agents of Change: The state of the country and the Democrats on year before 2008 elections, the analysis concludes that:

“Voters are determined to vote for change and they want leaders who will work for the middle class, putting the interests of the public and country first, after the Bush years when leaders did not see the average person, when greed of executives and the self-interest of politicians determined our unfortunate course. That is the framework for Democrats to articulate their critique and progressive vision. The country wants to vote for change.”

The research reports on how Independents and Democrats feel about what is wrong. People cited the following issues for why our country is going in the wrong direction:

1.       Bogged down and spending billions in Iraq

2.       Leaders have done nothing about health care

3.       Losing jobs to China and India

4.       Doing nothing about dependence on oil/global warming

5.       Government is running record deficits

6.       Borders left unprotected

7.       Government failed on Katrina

If you want to read the full report, go to the Democracy Corps website.

www.democracycorps.com

Submitted by Michaele Camp

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