Young Democrats Esch and Carter believe regime change starts in Nebraska (great reading)

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.thereader.com/index.php?subaction=showfull&id=1204764429&archive=&start_from=&ucat=3&



by Andrew Norman

The Iraq war begins year five this month. A Nobel Prize-winning economist says the cost could wind up reaching $5 trillion. It has already cost some 4,000 American lives; 43 of them Nebraskans.

The leading Republican presidential candidate indicates he could envision American troops being there for another 100 years. Warren Buffett says the United States is in a recession. The national debt has increased $3.6 trillion in the last seven years. About 15,000 low-income Nebraska children will go without health insurance because President Bush vetoed an expansion to the State Children Health Insurance Program. The country’s infrastructure needs more than $1.6 trillion in repairs. An estimated 12 million immigrants live in the country illegally. The wage gap is increasing and Exxon Mobil earned a record $41 billion in 2007. Gas costs more than $3 per gallon and is climbing.

Do you know where your congressman is?

Voters in the 2nd Congressional District will find Rep. Lee Terry marching lockstep with Bush on these issues, when he’s not picking verbal fights on the House floor with real-life ass-kicking Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. or World Wrestling Entertainment honcho Vince McMahon.

Two young Nebraska Democrats see a national movement bubbling behind presidential candidate Barack Obama’s call for change.

They believe change starts at home.

FULL story at link.

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[Tarheel_Dem]

1. k&r...n/t

[Mnemosyne]

2. Needs another KnR. For hope for the future. n/t