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Iraq For Sale

September 16, 2007 at 2:52 pm · Filed under Act now!, Politics

I just watched the testimonies of military and civilian participants and veterans of the IraQuagmire in “Iraq For Sale;” and, as an American who lost a good friend in 9/11 and has old family friends fighting/working in Iraq now, I’m extremely upset with how the Bush administration allowed Halliburton/KBR, and their various spinoffs and cronies, to take such egregious advantage of our country and its citizens. They have all robbed us through fraudulent billings and exponential overcharging for often extraneous and /or redundant jobs. That money should have gone to help our troops and our children instead.

* In February 2007, Congressman Henry Waxman, a California Democrat, released
a report saying that out of the 20 billion dollars charged to the U.S.
government by Halliburton, 2.4 billion dollars were “unsupported” and
“questioned” costs. *

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Remembering Vincent Chin

June 30, 2007 at 1:05 am · Filed under Act now!, Asian American, Immigration, Politics

It’s been 25 years since Vincent Chin’s brutal murder by Detroit autoworkers who blamed their woes on Asian imports, and subsequently on Asian Americans … instead of on the Chrysler honchos who thought “capitalism” and “competition” meant “protectionism” and “higher import tariffs” rather than “innovation” and “efficiency.” Detroit couldn’t build a better mousetrap, so it collapsed.

We’re not losing our jobs to minority Americans, much less to immigrants: American corporations are selling our jobs to the lowest bidders overseas. It’s global capitalism at its finest … isn’t that what this war in Iraq is about? Exporting good old American democratic, capitalistic, uber-consumer values, so we can grow more markets to build McDonald’s and Wal-Mart’s in?

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