We don’t want to talk about tears, or haircuts, or talk shows.
This is the debate we want to be having.
This is why we want John Edwards to keep on fighting.
We want to talk about record corporate profits.
We want to talk about Exxon Mobil earning $40 billion while taking government handouts.
We want to talk about 47 million Americans without health care.
We want to talk about 37 million American parents who worry each night about feeding and clothing their children in the morning.
We want to talk about the 200,000 veterans who served their country and now go to sleep each night under bridges and on grates.
We want to talk about finishing a war that has been going on for five years and keeps growing and growing.
We want to talk about developing independent, renewable, and clean sources of energy.
We want to talk about the utter concentration of wealth in a tiny elite of Americans.
We want to talk about fixing the trade and economic policies that have been eroding the economic standing of the bottom 80% of Americans for the past three decades.
We want to talk about a reversing tax policy that allows 0.5% of all Americans to ‘earn’ 13.8% of the nation’s after-tax income.
We want to talk about reigning in corporate greed and ending poverty.
We want to talk about a reckless financial system that puts our national economy at risk.
We want to talk about finally eliminating the economic gap between African-Americans and non-Hispanic white Americans.
We want to talk about the need for tolerance.
We want to talk about healing the religious, political, racial, and sexual divisions in America.
We want to talk about the rule of law.
We want to talk about treating the United States Constitution as if it were a document that actually matters.
We want to talk about eliminating the influence of corporate special interests in Washington, DC.
We want to talk about restoring America’s confidence in their government.
We want to talk about challenging the system.
We want to talk about all this and more.
We want to talk about what really matters.
Please help us. $10, $25, or whatever you can afford.
© Jed Lewison