What the VP's won't talk about in the debate

[ryker77]

What you're not going to hear tonight at the debate of the vice presidential candidates? Well, you're not going to hear me, because they exclude Nader/Camejo in the debates—in spite of the fact that 57% of the people in the United States want Nader in the debates. What that means, of course, is that they do not respect the will of the people. In fact they will not inform what is happening to our people. The fact that over 30 years, 90% have received no increase in their income. When adjusted to inflation, in spite of the greatest growth in the economy ever in the history of the United States, they will not mention that corporations are no longer paying their taxes, estimated to be as high as $300 billion per year. Enough to not only cut across the deficit but to create the potential for incredible funding for education, health care, and other important issues the American people face. They will not mention that state and local taxes have now become regressive throughout the United States, where the richest people pay the lowest tax rate. They will not mention that corporations used to pay 33% of our income and now only pay 7.8% in taxes; and yet they continue to try to lower their taxes, as John Kerry suggested.

You will never hear one word of how the US supported Saddam Hussein for twenty years, supplied him with poison gas, sent Donald Rumsfeld to Iraq to give him hugs and kisses, or George Bush's public statement about what a good job Saddam Hussein was doing in Iraq. The fact is that their policies through the whole Middle East will never be discussed. Only one thing: How to get control of Iraq, how the US military can get domination and consolidate the dictatorship that it is establishing in Iraq.

You will not hear one word of how every single country in Europe, the Arab world, Latin America, Asia, and Africa opposes US policy. And you will never hear mention that Ralph Nader's positions are those of the overwhelming majority of the people of the world regarding Iraq and the Middle East.

You will never hear one word of how the entire world supports the Kyoto protocol and the World Court and the United States alone opposes them—opposes even the concept of the rule of law in the world.

You will not hear anything about the fact that all of Europe has universal health care, but the United States, the wealthiest country in the world, doesn't have it.

Or even, the most important, in order to be able to deal with these questions, that we do not have free elections in America. There is no run-off so that people are really free to vote for who they want. If a party gets twenty percent of the vote, they don't get 20 percent of the seats, like in almost every country of Latin America and Europe. The United States stands alone with the most under-developed electoral system, one that denies the people a real voice, or to hear the real choices. And as you'll see in the debates, it's obfuscation and a show to give the impression of election when the decisions have already been made and the argument is about who is going to better implement the same platform.

A vote for Nader/Camejo is a vote to open up the electoral system to allow free elections in America.

Peter Miguel Camejo


www.votenader.org

[ryker77]

Just a few issues bound to be missing in Cleveland's debate without Peter:

The unconstitutional war in Iraq
Health care for all
A living wage
Kyoto Protocol
Repeal of the Patriot Act
Taxing wealth, not work
The bloated defense budget
Corporate accountability for corporate crime
The criminal injustice system
The failed "Drug War" tax wasting
Public school funding epidemic
Privatization run rampant in our prisons
Trade agreements that universally raise labor standards
Israeli/Palestinian Peace Movement
Africa's AIDS pandemic
Electoral reform
Reform of the Commission on Presidential Debates


I don't like a few of Naders idea's but most of them I really like.