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WHEN BUSH COMES TO
SHOVE
by Del Castle
When Bush (shrub) comes to shove all
hell is going to break loose. He is the robber who stole the election. He
is inaugurated as president by calls of “Hail to the Thief” in
protest. He was selected by corporate money to be its candidate. He was
defeated for election by majority vote. Gore got 500,000 more popular
votes than Bush. Five conservative Supreme Court Justices selected him.
Democracy was stolen. It was the steal of the century.
But the thievery is only getting
started. The U.S treasury is the next item on Bush's list. Two and one
half trillion dollars are to be given to the super rich in tax cuts. That
theft alone will leave no money to guarantee Social Security, Medicare,
prescription drug cost cuts for seniors, housing for the poor,
environmental protection or for strengthening democracy. All social
welfare programs will be cut. That is to guarantee that the rich will be
spared sharing the costs of social programs in the future. Turning welfare
over to churches is not only unconstitutional (anti-democratic), but is a
signal that ordinary citizens, not the rich, will be called upon to donate
to churches for relief of the poor. And the number of poor will keep
increasing as recession, layoffs and export of jobs continues. In other
words, under Bush-corporate, neo-liberal, “free market" control all
social welfare programs are to be cut or terminated.
Can Bush get away with such outright
anti-democratic thievery? The answer is NO! There are too many
anti-corporate forces in action that holler "Stop thief." The
peoples' power is coming into direct opposition to corporate power- for
the first time since the populist ant-trust campaigns of the 1890s and
early nineteen hundreds when the rail barons were bulldozing their way
through pioneer farmers land; and the meat packing trust was selling
poison meat - something that is becoming a problem again today.
We won those battles along with many
others such as trade union rights (never accepted in corporate circles),
voting rights for women and, in only the last thirty-five years, for
African-Americans, human rights, women’s rights and anti-discrimination
laws are on the books. Environmental movements are gaining strength
because human survival depends on stopping corporate destruction. These
anti-corporate movements will join forces to consolidate a powerful
peoples' movement to curb corporate power and strengthen democracy. As we
have learned in the union cause, unity is the key to success. It the
different anti-corporate movements unite into a single power, nothing can
stop it!
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