Occupy The PGA
May 23-27 (big day: Sat. May 26) - Benton Harbor, Michigan
Demonstrate in protest of land stolen by Whirlpool Corporation
“The thrust [of the county courthouse] is to physically remove and destroy families through the use of the criminal justice system. Every person they can put in jail; every person whose voting rights they can revoke with a felony conviction; every person they can cause to lose their job by putting them on probation; every person they can cause to lose the ability to pay for basic necessities through imposing ruinous court costs and probation is all part of the process. In the 1960s, it was called Negro removal. In Bosnia, it was called ethnic cleansing. It could be called genocide, the removal of the minority population for the purpose of redevelopment of the land. That’s what’s happening in Benton Harbor and the foremost leader of the resistance is Rev. Edward Pinkney.” -Atty. Hugh "Buck" Davis

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Upton guilty of hypocrisy in health care vote

Editor,

Congressman Fred Upton voted "no" on the health insurance reform bill. He said on March 21 during the debate that he voted this way because "the national debt is at historic levels spending is out of control," etc. etc.

Didn't Mr. Upton vote for money for a drug prescription bill and a costly war in Iraq, which added billions to the national debt? Did he not also vote for tax reductions for wealthy Americans, which further increased the national debt? Has he forgotten that there was a surplus in the United States Treasury when George W. Bush took office in 2001?

Hypocrisy does not strengthen one's trust in government - a trust which is desperately needed today.

George S. Miller, South Haven

Herald Palladium, 2010 (exact date has been lost)
Posted by Gordon at 1:07 PM
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