Presently, everything is so cosmically urgent that we must put
partisan politics behind us and humanity in the forefront.
Cindy Sheehan
There are four human rights that Cindy for Congress believes are basic
to everyone, everywhere:
Peace: Not just the absence of war, but the absence of an economy that
is always preparing for war. Not just the absence of violence, but the
importance of solving problems without the use, or the threat of
violence. Protection of the human right to not be "bombed to the
stone ages" or not to be tortured for seeming barbaric sport, are
rights that are of paramount importance.
Security: The importance of a person's right to not only be physically
secure, but also secure from ones own government. Why is it "hacking"
when a private person breaks into another's email, but "National
Security" when our government does it? The only reasonable usage for a
military is to defend our nation from attack and in case of natural
disasters: not to be over-extended in immoral foreign wars of
aggression to be killed or kill innocent people.
Prosperity: This is the right to education, health care, housing,
healthy food, clean water and a job that pays living wages. Where our
retirement is provided for and our retirement accounts can't be raped
and pillaged by government or Wall Street.
Environmental sustainability: A world where fossil fuels are not
needed and the capitalist polluters use their labor and profits to
clean up the environment that they filthied. A world where clean and
renewable sources of energy are the norm rather than the exception. A
world where clean and green companies get the tax incentives and oil
companies get the shaft that they so richly deserve.
Cindy for Congress believes that every individual in the world
deserves these four fundamental necessities. We also believe that the
parasite class is sucking the life out of our communities and families
and the recent socio-economic collapse is the result of decades of a
consolidation of wealth and power that is culminating in the
bankrupting of our nation to benefit this parasite class and plunge
working families even farther into a financial morass.
If we are to be intellectually honest with ourselves we know that the
Democratic/Republican monopoly in our political milieu are co-equally
responsible for the mess and that the solution is not to bail out the
finance industry, but to build protections into our economy for we
citizens that unknowingly or reluctantly support the rescues and
profitization of the parasites with our labor and taxes.
Cindy for Congress calls for an indefinite moratorium on mortgage
foreclosures and then reorganization or renegotiation of mortgages
after home prices have adjusted to appropriate and reasonable levels
with federal government support.
Cindy for Congress calls for an indefinite extension on food stamp and
unemployment benefits as an economic and social safety net for the
most vulnerable of our brothers and sisters.
Cindy for Congress calls for the immediate withdrawal of troops from
Iraq and Afghanistan and the downsizing of our military industrial
complex to save trillions of dollars per year.
Cindy for Congress calls for easing bankruptcy laws for consumers that
also discourage usurious interest rates and predatory credit practices.
Cindy for Congress calls for state and federal jobs programs that put
people to work rebuilding our rotting infrastructure and cleaning up
our fragile environment.
Cindy for Congress calls for lobbyist money to be completely
eliminated from Capitol Hill. Both major party presidential and
Congressional candidates receive millions of dollars from financial
conglomerates. Public financing of campaigns will level the playing
field and force our legislators to be responsive to citizen
constituencies. Nancy Pelosi owns 500,000 dollars of stock in AIG and
AIG is receiving 85 billion dollars in corporate welfare thanks to our
hard earned tax dollars. How is that not a distinct conflict of
interest?
Cindy for Congress calls for the re-institution of the Glass-Steagall
Act that was enacted during the Great Depression to prevent financial
institutions from merging causing the crisis we are in today when they
fail. Nancy Pelosi was a major supporter of repealing this vital act
in 1999. Cindy for Congress calls for other regulatory measures that
would prevent such a crisis in the future.
Cindy for Congress calls for the protection of Social Security and
demands that our retirement safety net not be placed into the hands of
bankers or Wall Street. The privatization of Social Security is a
likely recipe for disaster.
Cindy for Congress demands that any company that gets "bailed-out" by
our tax dollars (on a case by case basis and only after a citizen's
review) have a strict repayment schedule and a major reduction in CEO
salaries, bonuses and "Golden Hand Shakes." No blank checks or
unregulated bailouts from the criminal Bush regime. A commission made
up of experts, members of Labor and taxpayers must be instituted as an
oversight committee on what is really a necessary restructuring of
greedily destructive Capitalism.
Cindy for Congress demands that this reverse Robin Hood affect
(robbing from the poor to give to the rich) end immediately.
Call your Congress person to urge a rejection of BushCo's "bail-out"
plan that is good for crony-Capitalism but bad for everyone else.
Congressional switchboard: 1-877-210-5351
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