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Nicholas Ruiz III
for U.S. Congress 2012
FL District 24
for U.S. Congress 2012
FL District 24
| For the new wave of American progress. |
Cookie Jar By Nicholas Ruiz III A Republican cauldron brews destruction for Florida’s wildlife, land, rivers, lakes and oceans, and people. Acolytes like Rep. Sandy Adams (FL-24), Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Gov. Rick Scott (R-FL) are being sponsored - to wage war on land and on the water. The Republican front pushes forward against the environment, and everything that would live in it. Who will stop them? Democrats? Which ones? Warring with NOAA to let over-fishing continue off Florida’s coast, we see that Sandy Adams doesn’t care if the red snapper population off the coast of Florida is driven to extinction. Warring to diminish funding for the EPA, which is charged with regulating discharges of pollutants into the waters of the United States and regulating quality standards for surface waters, we see that Marco Rubio doesn’t care if Florida water standards meet the Clean Water Act of 1977. Warring to pave over Florida’s state parks with commercial golf courses, we see that Rick Scott doesn’t care if thousands of acres of what little preserved land and wildlife Florida has - is bull-dozed over to provide narrow entertainment and low wage jobs. And by defunding beach renourishment from the Florida budget (and by default, the federal matching funds that go with it) Rick Scott’s beaches will continue to erode, along with the tourist revenue these beaches bring. And don’t forget, that extra sand that beach renourishment affords, means less chance of destruction should a hurricane hit Florida. Well, I care about these things and Democrats care about these things. Policies like these are representative of what the engine of the radical right has become: a war machine. Preemptive war against other nations; fighting against our working people; fighting against the concept of shared governance; destructive environmental policy – this is the system of belief of the radicalized GOP: So here’s the thing – Democrats know something is wrong. They can feel it in their bones. And here’s what it is: Do you think that all of the recent union-busting, the assault on worker’s rights, teacher tenure, the assault on public workers, etc., in state, after state, after state, nationwide is a coincidence? Do you think such an assault would have been possible twenty or thirty years ago – when Reagan had his ‘Sputnik’ moment and fired thousands of air traffic controllers in the PATCO debacle, denying many of them unemployment in a special case of ‘compassionate conservatism’? It isn’t an accident. The radical right is coming for you. They’re coming for your job, your benefits, your right to shared governance, your right to healthcare, your right to decent public schools, for a woman’s right to sovereignty over her own body. The radical right’s thirst for war in every conceivable fashion is pornographic. Do you think another self-proclaimed business genius superstar is the answer to all of this? I’m not talking about mom and pop business owners – you know what I mean. Political candidates that claim to have all of the answers because they made five bucks running some business? Let me tell you something. They are not the solution. In fact, they are the problem. It’s no miracle to buy some widget for 5 cents and turn around and sell it for $500 and pocket the difference, while paying your workers poorly and offering them paltry benefits, or even laying off thousands of employees to achieve those profits. It’s no miracle at all. It’s no miracle to buy oil futures at $80 and sell them at $100; or to short oil futures at $100 and cover them at $80. Or equities, other commodities or currencies. It’s a game that reaps incredible rewards for the few at the expense of the many, because the big players and market movers are under-regulated, while small individual players are capital-starved and hyper-regulated. This so called ‘free market’ left unchecked and unfairly regulated - is a crime against society, Main Street and the American way of life. Government is the fabric that holds us all together – take that away – and we’ll have nothing but profiteering chaos – and a free for all against the poor and those of lesser means and political influence. And that is exactly what the radical right aims to do. They are waging a war against the very concept of American democracy and shared power in this country – and we had better defend it. Put a progressive Democrat like myself in Congress – and you know that I will. We must raise our wages, our benefits and reconstitute and improve the laws regarding shared governance for union workers, non-union workers and the unemployed alike. We must provide healthcare for all of our people, and ensure that our U.S. Social Safety Net is adequate for the roughness of our times. We must halt the prejudice and discrimination, and increase the opportunity of success for all of our people, regardless of their race, gender, sexual preference, social or economic status, disability, religion, age, where they come from, or the color of their eyes or skin. Or shall we leave it to the political and economic hogs of indifference?: Please contribute now to help NRIII unseat Republican Sandy Adams in 2012 - and work toward keeping a truly Democratic tradition alive in America: and please endorse, and invite friends to endorse his campaign here: Endorse Nick! Many thanks for your support! |
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