This week, Congress is debating the supplemental funding bill for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Our friends at True Majority have an important action urging Congress to stop pork barrel funding for C-17 transport planes even the military doesn't think we need. I hope you'll have a look and take action; we have far more important uses for our tax dollars than this.
Kate Stayman-London, CREDO Action

No one wants these war planes except Congress.

It's time for a responsible budget.

Tell Congress: Don't waste our tax dollars on pork barrel defense contracts we have too many desperate needs to put up with shennanigans like this.

Remember when we said last month that this year could be our chance to finally cut Pentagon waste and focus the budget on things we want like healthcare, education and jobs? Well the real fight over that vision starts today. It's time to get busy.

The full Pentagon budget hasn't even been drafted yet. But some members of Congress are already trying to slip billions of dollars of pork-barrel weapons projects into the supplemental budget request for Iraq and Afghanistan.

Tell Congress not to slip pork-barrel contracts into the Iraq/Afghan funding bill.

We're not happy about the continuing costs of the wars, but what's worse is this attempt to slip in even more money for C-17 transport planes we don't need. The Air Force doesn't want these planes, and the Secretary of Defense explicitly asked to *cut* them from the budget. The only people who still want the planes are the contractors who make money even if the finished planes sit idle, and the members of Congress who get campaign money from the contractors.

This type of thing has been going on for so long, we've forgotten how to be shocked by it, but we need to remember.

This budget is supposed to be about what troops in the field need to keep fighting and Congress wants to stuff it full of billion-dollar planes we don't need. If we can't stop them now, imagine what it will be like when we actually get to the budget for planes and bombs.

But if we can hold the line, and keep this supplemental vote clear of pork-barrel spending, we've got a chance to change America's priorities for good.

Tell Congress to keep Pentagon pork OUT of the President's supplemental and focus on True Security.

Matt

Matt Holland
Online Director
True Majority/US Action

Bush and his motley crew already have already systematically
compromised the federal government. Now the people who threw the bums out,

(most working people in America) have to attempt to rebuild this nation.

Corporate hegemony is simply a bad idea. Allowing the CEO's for transnational economic

cartels to run this nation has been an unmitigated disaster. They have no loyalty to this country.
This is why they exported jobs, catered to the interests and eccentricities of Saudi royal families,
and invested in China, India, and the corporate occupation of Iraq for eight years while our
nation's economy took a nose-dive. Now skilled professionals and responsible adults must fix it.

The "too big to fail" businesses must be nationalized. And sooner would be better than
later according to most economists from both sides of the aisle. It might surprise some on

the right and left to be informed that this process has already begun.

If we continue the difficult and complicated nationalization of critical industries, and then include
both our failed schools, and dysfunctional healthcare system... we might just have a chance of rebuilding the necessary foundations for the next century. Extracting reparations from the crime families and profiteers who have ransacked this nation for eight years would also be prudent. And a bit of jail time might be just what the doctor ordered.

Real conservatives and traditional American liberals are banding together to save us from the con-men, criminals, syncophants, thieves, drug-addled talk-show hosts, and tap-dancing buffoons.

tmf

Most Corrupt Officials in the Bush Administration

"The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles." Ayn Rand

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