September 29, 2008


While George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and 205 members of the House of Representatives took a stand for giving education, health care and housing funds to executives of mega-corporations as a reward for looting their own companies, populist Democratic Congressman Dennis Kucinich and populist Republican Congressman Ron Paul took the lead in saying "no" to the trillion dollar theft from the American people.  Kucinich and Paul are from different sides of the aisle, but that doesn't stop them from agreeing when the interests of the American people is at stake.

Kucinich has a history of standing up for the interests of real people over those of corporations.  Repeatedly, he has put his career in saying "no" to mega-corporations. .  There was a lot of pressure on members of Congress to take food off the tables of constituents and hand it over to the mega-corporations. Kucinich's seat is the number one target for coporatists in the upcoming election. The mega- corporations have put together a million dollar warchest in an effort to unseat him.  Fortunately, for Kucinich, the people of his district love him.  His constituents know he's got their backs.  To protect their won interests, the people of Cleveland plan to go to the polls in droves to re-elect Kucinich by an expected landslide margin. 

Ron Paul is a Republican populist who put together a political convention that dwarfed the Republican convention in attendance figures.  The GOP had to go out onto the streets and give away tickets for free to get attendees.  In contrast, Americans flocked from all across America to Paul's convention.  Recently, Ron Paul held a press conference with Cynthia McKinney and other third party candidates to encourage all Americans to vote independent in the upcoming Presidential election. Fearlessly, he will run as a Republican for his tenth term in Congress.

Among those who held firm against the theft were Representatives Pete Stark, Bob Filner, Lynn Woolsey, Barbara Lee, Raul Grijalva,  Hilda Solis, John Lewis, Sheila Jackson-Lee, Jesse Jackson, Jr,, Nick Lampson  and Loretta and Linda Sanchez.   They listened to their constituents.  The Patrick Henry Democratic Club of America's, which is based in Loretta Sanchez's area, adopted a resolution in opposition to the bailout at the PHDC's September 24 meeting. 

The failure of the bailout gives future college students a reason to hope that financial aid won't be cut.  Currently, prospective students are looking at a cost of $50,000 per year of college.  This cost is prohibitive to most middle class hopefuls.  The result of a bailout in favor of corporate executives over students is expected to result in a less educated labor force and a further lowering of the gross national product and of the standard of living for most Americans.

Kucinich's support of students, workers and regular Americans is expected to prove more powerful than the million dollar Republican warchest in November 4, 2008.  Already, predictions are being made that Kucinich is on his way to a landslide victory in his re-election campaign.

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