It would be wrong to re-elect Congressman Billy Long.
Why? Billy Long was just elected to the House of Representatives a few weeks ago, but it seems that he’s already forgotten about the people back home in Missouri. Representative Long is working on an agenda to send more American jobs overseas, even as unemployment in the USA remains high.
The record is clear. The policy of so-called free trade has undermined wages in America and given corporations the green light to send jobs to sweatshop factories in countries run by autocratic regimes. Billy Long, however, has been enraptured by a radical marketeering ideology that declares that protecting American jobs is intolerable. Long supports prolonging the free trade disaster, writing, “Free trade agreements are essential to keeping our nation competitive in the global economy, and Billy will fight to make sure that our government does not obstruct the free operation of the market.”
It would be wrong to re-elect Billy Long, because Missouri voters need jobs in Missouri, not in China and Pakistan.
Where were these statements to his constituency BEFORE he got elected? He’s taking a page from the Obama play book here – promise ‘em anything and then change your mind or fail to deliver once in office. There should be a way to recall these jackals when they pull these stunts. Whatever happened to the social bargain – we elect you and you go to bat for us? No, see, now that’s been replaced by big money corporations backing the campaigns of both sides of the aisle, so that when the get elected the legislator or president OWES THEM. All the little donations and pac money is represented by individuals while LARGE donations come from corporations who then get preferential treatment – at our expense.
Somebody better change all those books that explain how politics in the U.S. USED to work for the kiddies coming up.
But apparently it’s okay for the cops to shoot a man in a wheelchair:
http://ofgoatsandmen.blogspot.com/
and not press charges when they handcuff someone and leave them in the middle of the road – even when the handcuffed person gets run over as a result!
http://jonathanturley.org/2010/12/29/prosecutors-refuse-to-bring-charges-of-any-kind-after-police-leave-16-year-old-boy-handcuffed-and-lying-facedown-in-street-only-to-be-run-over/
Brief visit back to Gulf Oil “spill”
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/06/science/earth/06spill.html?_r=2&hp
And a little further back visit to the 2008 election:
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_left_has_nowhere_to_go_20110102/
Yer politicians at work:
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/matt-taibbi-the-crying-shame-of-john-boehner-20110105?page=1