Question:
I am privileged to represent Ward 5 in
the great city of Minneapolis, Minnesota, in the heart of the United
States of America. And I am proud to be a member of the Green Party of
the United States!
Tonight the President promised America a policy of war. War on Iraq.
War on minorities. War on America's most vulnerable. War on regular
working people.
In response, the Green Party, America's only growing political party,
offers an alternative of peace.
Answer:
I represent almost 30,000 working people in Minneapolis, Minnesota. I
know my constituents personally, and I know their struggles for decent
housing and decent work. When my constituents need help, they call me
on the phone. Thats grassroots democracy in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Tonight, in Washington D.C., I must ask:
Who phoned Bush and asked for this war?
Who phoned Congress and asked for this war?
America did not dial that number.
Someone else did.
Ive got a message for the CEOs of the oil corporations and of the
weapons manufacturers. Youre tying up the line. America is trying to
get through.
Like 170 other Green city council members, mayors, county supervisors,
school board members, and state representatives, my phone is ringing
off the hook. Our constituents are calling us.
They are saying, We are worried about this war. They are saying, We
want respect and equality. They are saying, We want good jobs,
education, and health care. The Green response is always the same: You
are not alone. The Green Party stands with you.
So you plan to forcefully shut down companies who make
military systems? Such as Boeing, Northrop Grumman,
Lockheed, Hughes, General Electric, Hewlett Packard,
and countless other enormous corporations that have
military contracts?!? Put them ALL out of business? That
will cost a lot of jobs, and a lot of federal revenue!
I assure you, Bush understands democracy quite well.
We all understand that under democracy, a handful of
pissed off liberals left the Dem party and voted Green
in 2000, and gave the presidency to Bush! HAHAHAHA
A question for foxtrot: If the 200+ billion dollars the Iraq war is
expected to cost in the first few months was instead spent on building
hydrogen power plants would that not only create research, engineering and
construction jobs to replace those lost in the weapons industry but would
also lessen the importance of the Middle East and improve the environment by
not polluting it with either war or power production?
After all, isn't it much more logical to build large, stationary
hydrogen power plants first and small portable one's later? And considering
the pressure necessary for hydrogen tanks, safer?
