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Saturday, January 06, 2007

Nancy Pelosi: for God's sake please hear this!


Has everyone seen the billboard in San Francisco along the freeway to the Bay Bridge that reads, "CONGRATULATIONS, MADAME SPEAKER NANCY PELOSI"?

I enjoy that billboard and I endorse its sentiment. I am very proud and pleased that Nancy Pelosi is now the most politically powerful woman in the country, is the highest-ranking woman in American history, is third in line in succession to the presidency and is the Member of Congress who represents the 8th district, which is most of the City and County of San Francisco.

 Everyone in America wants to give Nancy Pelosi some advice. I am no different. The good news for me is that I am a party loyalist and one of Speaker Pelosi's home-district constituents. That means that I really do have an opportunity to have my thoughts heard. So, wasting no time at all, here is a suggestion for my Congresswoman:

Dear Madame Speaker:

The Iraq War is the most privatized war in American history. The Bush Administration has contracted with more than 100,000 private contractors. The size of our private contractor force is now approaching the total size of our military in Iraq. Private contractors are a delight to the Bush Administration. It is easy to hide facts and details and money because contracting-out creates firewalls and barriers that prevent the American public from knowing what's really going on. Privatization is the favorite tool of crooks, liars, criminals and despots.

Why, for example, has George David, the CEO of United Technologies, (who earns $88-million a year) filed a law suit against the Department of Defense to block publication of Blackhawk helicopter inspection reports? What would we learn about United Technologies if we, the American public, were able to read those reports?

Well, Madame Speaker, we cannot read those reports. A multi-billion-dollar, multi-national corporation is using its financial might to keep that information from us, but they cannot keep that information from you. You are the Speaker of the House. We need YOUR help!

Let me give you just one more example, Madame Speaker:

David Brooks (not the excellent New York Times columnist of the same name... this is another David Brooks). Brooks was in charge of DHB Industries when the DOD was forced to declare an emergency recall of 23,000 bulletproof vests that proved to be worthless. The vests manufactured by a DHB subsidiary were faulty. They were cheap. They were, I believe, the clear and direct cause of many American deaths. DHB was, in my mind, criminally negligent. DHB and Brooks made so much money from their good-old-boy connections with Cheney and Rumsfeld that Brooks was able to throw at $10-million party for his daughter!

Madame Speaker:

Brooks and his gold-spoon daughter were living the life of luxury at the expense of U.S. Army soldiers who were dying in Iraq because of cheap, lousy, faulty, poorly-designed pieces of crap that Brooks and his buddies pawned-off to the military as "bulletproof vests". This all took place at the same time the families of soldiers were holding bake sales and spaghetti dinners to earn money to buy better bulletproof vests for their children.

Imagine! America's moms had to buy their son's military equipment because of massive fraud within the Bush Administration. ... and then some snotty-nosed kid of a rich criminal gets a $10-million party paid-for by the blood of America's young men and women.

Goddam those bastards!

Please, Nancy. Be our eyes and our ears and be our mouths and let Bush and his Republican Crooks know that we have had enough of their lies, enough of their greed, and enough of their treason.
on Saturday, January 06, 2007

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

Well said! I hope Nancy Pelosi really reads this.

Saturday, January 6, 2007 2:40:00 PM PST

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