12 1 / 2012
"When we turn on our TV’s, our radios, or pick up our newspapers and read about what is going on in our state and federal governments, we start to believe that you don’t care about us. We ask ourselves who our government is truly serving? We hear that corporate welfare continues and CEO’s get six-figure bonuses at taxpayer expense, and we look across the kitchen table at our families eating Ramen noodles for the third time this week. We read that the wealthy get bigger tax breaks in hopes that their money will “trickle down” to us, then turn the page and read about how our school districts are forced to cut staff … again. We hear about the scandals and the arguing and the backroom deals. We know that money talks around here, and that means you don’t hear us."
Amanda Greubel in her testimony before the U.S. Senate
And yet people are still voting for a Republican candidate with a summer home in New Hampshire, a candidate who says corporations are people, and who hides behind “free enterprise” as a justification for the way his financial corporation pillaged smaller companies.
Shit. I’m moving to Canada.
