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The many REASONS TO BE CHEERFUL after Election Day 2008
After casting her ballot for Barack Obama, Amanda Jones said simply, "I feel good about voting for him." Ms. Jones, of Cedar Creek, Texas (a town just south of Austin), is African-American, and what gives her vote some historic punch is that she's 109 years old. Her father was a slave. Her mother was born right after Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. She's been through it all--Jim Crow segregation, women's suffrage, the Great Depression, the poll tax, FDR, the civil-rights movement, desegregation, 13 years of George W (five as guv, eight as prez), and now: Barack Obama. This last change fills her with joy, she says.
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Fighting global corporate rule
Excuse me, but who the hell elected the WTO to write the laws of the USA?
In August, the autocratic World Trade Organization issued an imperial decree from Geneva striking down another U.S. law. The law in question provides a multibillion-dollar annual tax subsidy for a handful of major U.S. corporations, with GE, Boeing, Cisco, Motorola, Honeywell, and Caterpillar being the big beneficiaries.
It happens be a stupid law—these companies neither need the subsidy nor deserve it. However, it is our stupid law, and it falls within our sovereign realm to choose to get rid of it.
But our president didn’t issue a peep of protest when the WTO, acting on behalf of European corporations, so blatantly usurped America’s lawmaking authority. Instead, his administration meekly waved the white hankie of surrender, rushing out with a statement of appeasement that promised: “The executive branch will work with Congress to fully comply with our WTO obligations.”
This isn’t the first law that this unelected, un-American outfit has overruled, yet the politicians kowtow, the corporate media practically ignores it . . . and our sovereignty is surrendered to global corporate rule.
To help cut the cords of this entangling foreign alliance, call Citizens Trade Campaign: 202-546-4996.