| Click above, for articles in
this issue.
The Politics of Shameless Greed
...The nation has accumulated, during the Bush
administration, the largest ever-federal deficit. This is no small feat,
considering that just four years ago the nation had accumulated a huge
surplus... Take for instance the ‘blank check’
provided to Halliburton and its subsidiary Kellogg Brown and Root, companies
closely tied to Dick Cheney, for the non-bid contracts they have won in Iraq and
other places around the world, during these last four years. They will make billions... The recent
statistics, regarding how the largest corporations are amassing huge tax
savings, while more jobs are being lost and outsourced to other nations, are a
joke...
read editorial
***
Turning Back the Clock
Prepare yourself for a shock ! Congress wants the Wild West to make a
comeback. Recently Congress
permitted the Assault
Weapons Ban to lapse, thereby permitting any gun-totting nut to go out and
get himself an AK47 or some other machine gun for…err.. ‘home defense’.
On September
25th, the House of Representatives voted on bill
HR3193 which repealed gun control laws in the District of Columbia.
read editorial
Posted October 8,
2004
URL:
www.thecitizenfsr.org
SM
2000-2011
You are here: HOME page-OLDER ISSUES-OCTOBER 2004 -Editorial page
Previous : Words of Inspiration
|
