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For
Want of A Nail...
August 17, 2002
By Smokey Sojac
Just think, if Senator James Jeffords of Vermont hadn't followed
his conscience and left the Republican party:
- The Senate would not be under Democratic control;
- Price caps would not have been instituted in California
by the FERC;
- The state would still be undergoing rolling blackouts costing
it billions;
- Energy companies that had donated to the GOP would still
be price-gouging and making phony paper trades;
- Those energy companies would now be sharing $35 billion
in direct taxpayer subsidies as part of Dick Cheneyıs bogus
"energy policy";
- Those subsidies would have kept the Enron swindle from
coming to light yet;
- Enron and companies like it would still be moving billions
off-shore in secret partnerships;
- Ken Lay would still be meeting behind closed doors at the
White House, dictating policy and appointing regulators;
- Arthur Andersen's phony accounting practices would still
be shrouded in secrecy;
- Executives and companies that had given the GOP big bucks
would still be reporting profits that didn't exist;
- Global Crossing would still have the crooked contract it
got from the Bush White House in July, 2001;
- The investing public would continue to be swindled;
- Those swindlers would now have Social Security money to
play with;
- The GOP Congress would be reducing the amount of damages
due asbestos victims as part of "tort reform," getting Dick
Cheney off the hook for his Dresser swindle;
- And we would still be hearing from the GOP lie machine
that the problem with the country was too much regulation
of business.
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