Hello fellow Democrats...Are you ready for November!
This one is for you Stephanie
http://dialfordennis.com/Kucinich_Convention_Speech.pdf It’s Election Day, 2008. We Democrats are giving America a wake up call. Wake up America.
In 2001, the oil companies, the war contractors and the neo‐con artists seized the economy, and
have added four trillion dollars of unproductive spending to the national debt.
We now pay four times more for defense, three times more for gasoline and home heating oil,
and twice what we paid for health care. Millions of Americans have lost their jobs, their homes,
their health care, their pensions. Trillions of dollars for an unnecessary war paid with borrowed
money. Tens of billions of dollars in cash and weapons disappeared into thin air, at the cost of
the lives of our troops and innocent Iraqis, while all the President’s oilmen are maneuvering to
grab Iraq’s oil.
Borrowed money to bomb bridges in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. No money to rebuild
bridges in America. Money to start a hot war with Iran. Now we have another cold war with
Russia while the American economy has become a game of Russian roulette.
If there was an Olympics for misleading, mismanaging and misappropriating this Administration
would take the gold. World records for violations of national and international laws. They want
another four year term to continue to alienate our allies, spend our children’s inheritance and
hollow out our economy. We can’t afford it America.
Wake up America, the insurance companies took over health care.
Wake up America, the pharmaceutical companies took over drug pricing.
Wake up America, the speculators took over Wall Street.
Wake up America, they want to take your Social Security.
Wake up America, multinational corporations took over our trade policies, factories are closing,
good paying jobs lost.
Wake up, America. We went into Iraq for oil. The oil companies want more. War against Iran
will mean $10 a gallon gasoline. The Oil Administration wants to drill more ‐‐ into your wallet.
Wake up, America. Weapons contractors want more. An Iran war will cost five to ten trillion
dollars.
This Administration can tap our phones. They can’t tap our creative spirit. They can open our
mail. They can’t open economic opportunities. They can track our every move. They lost track
of the economy while the cost of food, gasoline, and electricity skyrockets.
They skillfully played our post‐ 911 fears and allowed the few to profit at the expense of the
many. Everyday we get the color orange, while the oil companies, the insurance companies, the
speculators, the war contractors get the color green.
Wake up America. This is not a call for you to take a new direction from right to left.
This is call for you to go from down to up.
Up with the rights of workers.
Up with wages.
Up with fair trade.
Up with creating millions of good paying jobs rebuilding our bridges, ports and water systems.
Up with creating millions of sustainable energy jobs to lower the cost of energy, lower carbon
emissions and protect the environment.
Up with health care for all.
Up with education for all.
Up with home ownership.
Up with guaranteed retirement benefits.
Up with Peace.
Up with Prosperity.
Up with the Democratic Party
Up with Obama ‐ Biden
Wake up, America.
Wake up, America.
Wake up, America.
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