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In a recent letter to constituents, Representative David Price described opposition candidate BJ Lawson's position on various issues. It would be informative to get BJ Lawson's point by point response to each issue as described by Representative David Price. Similarly, it would be informative to get Representative David Price's response to Price according to Lawson on the issues. I don't have the time to compile or find this one, if someone does please post it in the same format as this post but as a separate post. Lets hope to get their responses ...
The stock market opens after the 700 billion tax-payer-money Wall Street
bail-out dropping a further
200 points with markets all over the world losing value also. Furthermore, US
Bank Failures expected to rise despite the Wall Street bail-out. The (non) effects of wasting 700 billion + losing 100 billion of tax revenue are already beginnig to be seen. Meanwhile, Congress is in recess and addresing the fundamentals of the system has remained unaddressed. Representative David Price feels secure in his vote for Wall Street as demonstated by his having voted twice in favor of this give-away even though his
rival has been outspoken against the bail-out.
The country has been getting ransacked over the last couple of weeks. On August 4th 2008 both houses of congress (Rep. David Price included) sanctioned H.R. 3221 and the conservatorship of Fannie and Freddie essentially saddeling the U.S. government with 5.4 trillion in debt that it is now responsible for!!!
Had we had a debate and expressed the outrage over this back then, gone into the streets banging our pots and pans .... the latest outrage, the proposed bail-out bill, would now be something that our Congressman David Price might think twice about before voting ... we should have broken down his door back in August!
The very wise, prophetic, yet ignored, Catherine Austin Fitts has summed this bill up:
North Carolina has offered county commissioners 2 choices in raising taxes: land transfer tax or sales tax. These
taxes are, in part, needed as counties and municipalities are
struggling to fill in growing gaps that are left after the funding cuts
in social services
that the Federal government has made as it diverts, the already
diminished (due to tax cuts), federal tax revenue -- which is wasted on
war.
The House of Representatives will vote as soon as today --
Thursday, May 8 -- on an additional $162.6 billion for the war and
occupation in Iraq!
The WITT (Walk in Tributary Theatre) is located in Carrboro's historic community pool, 'Sparrow's Pool.' For the past year, as part of a federation of projects at the Carrboro Greenspace, the WITT has served as a space to show informative movies, information exchange being essential to a healthy democracy. This last remaining greenspace in the heart of Carrboro is being prepared for sale and perhaps development. We are losing access to the property after August 5th. Please come and experience for the last time(!?) THE WITT and what the Carrboro Greenspace could be if we save it!..
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