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Letter to the Milpitas Post<BR>
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America was founded on ‘We the People’ and designed to serve the interests of everyone equally. Yet the Occupy Movement has appeared and spread because, for the majority of people (the 99%), the system is not working. There is also a sense that this is a relatively recent phenomenon – “we’re not trying to roll back the clock 100 years; just 30 years.”<BR>
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The past thirty years includes the crazy economic policies of Reaganomics (“trickle-down” tax cuts for the rich), Clintonomics (NAFTA and WTO sucking our jobs overseas), and Bushonomics (add $6.4 trillion to our nation's debt -- 44.7% of today's $14.3 trillion total).<BR>
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Unfortunately, reversing those policies is unlikely while corporations control our democratic processes. The super-failure of the Congressional Super Committee that was supposed to solve our financial problems is just the latest example of maintaining the status quo. <BR>
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Resolutions, legislation and Constitutional Amendments recently started appearing at all levels of government to address the corrupting influence of money in politics. Most are well-meaning (including efforts here in Milpitas), but don't cut to the heart of the matter and reverse the absurd Supreme Court notion that corporations enjoy the same rights as people under the U. S. Constitution. (See <A HREF="http://movetoamend.org/other-amendments">http://movetoamend.org/other-amendments</A> )<BR>
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The MoveToAmend.org folks, however, are promoting a Constitutional Amendment that will clearly establish that money is not speech, corporations are not people, and allows for no loopholes. It will put people in charge of our government, and corporations in their proper place. After two years listening and organizing at the grassroots level, Move To Amend just released the final Amendment wording and presented their strategy to get it passed. Here is the 7-minute audio roll-out from the Thom Hartmann Program: electric-bikes.com/amend.mp3<BR>
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Our country is ready for a change that is bold and sweeping. If you are too, check the ways to get involved at movetoamend.org/get-involved<BR>
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Rob Means,1421 Yellowstone Ave., Milpitas, CA 95035-6913
408-262-0420h, 408-262-8975w, <A HREF="mailto:rob.means@electric-bikes.com">rob.means@electric-bikes.com</A>
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