The US Senator representing Harlem, New York is running for president. I remember when she came on the scene in the early 90's talking about fixing the health care system and making children/education a priority.
It's now 2007. She has grown in political stature, but education and health care are worse off than ever with Medicine, Inc. as the leading cause of death.
I could be wrong and am researching additional information. Yet Senator Clinton's loyalty seems to have an Industrial (pro big medicine and industry) – Military (pro war against people who havenever hurt us) – Congressional complex base going way back.
Here's some of my concerns with Senator Clinton:
EDUCATION
Though I'm sure she's pro education, when the Clinton family came to Washington they were faced with upgrading the public school system in Washington D.C. or sending their daughter to private school. Guess which won.
Even though she didn't send her daughter to public school, what did she do to champion public schools who were not worthy of Chelsea? As the current Senator representing Harlem too, how have the public schools improved since she became senator? I've always found it strange that the strongest building in Harlem is not a school where the children are kept, but the police station.
Based on results, what Senator Clinton did was not sufficient for the problem of education, though she had access to the resources.
Like Harlem, the Washington DC's inner city schools are still in trouble.
where the word computer is not mentioned. They are still talking about teaching children out of text books when everybody knows thatebooks can offer a greater variety of learning material than printed books, and at least pre-K-14 - national standard (Massachusetts) -should be on line for free.
It's like we're training inner city youth for careers in radio tubes at the dawn of the computer chip. It's tough to find a computer super store in the inner city. STAPLES, bless their hearts, is a stationary store, not a computer super store.
Talk about second hand information in the information age.
If then First Lady Clinton had just acted regarding computerization in the Information Age (like Lady Bird Johnson did regarding the environment in the 1960's with her Keep America Beautiful program), and told her husband (or brokered herself) to make a deal with corporations to donate older computers to local schools for a tax deduction, the problem would have been solved.
I still suspect that some of the thugs we have running the streets today would better interact with the rest of society if they spent more of their time at a computer screen where they could vent their rage in a safer environment. It's tough to have a gun and a keyboard going at the same time, though I admit, not impossible.
HEALTH CARE - HEALTH SOLUTIONS
When Senator Clinton's husband had to have his heart operation just before the last presidential election, she expressed gratitude for their health care package. I wonder if any children died during that time as a result of not having or not having enough health care. Would she know their names? In this case Senator Clinton accepted the privilege extended to her family while tens of millions go uninsured every day. What a racket!
Maybe I missed her standing up to EPA's Whitman on 9/13/01 and saying the air WAS NOT safe to breathe, nor the water safe to drink, nor the building materials with the exploded bodies, asbestos, benzene and other toxic chemicals NOT able to be effectively cleaned. Asbestos does not clean out of fabric.
When the news was released about the breach in trust, THAT THE WHITE HOUSE TOLD THE EPA TO ALTER THE SAFETY REPORT, AND THEY COMPLIED, coordinated with a big power black out, I expected her in the White House parking lot ready to kick ass because people in her state had their lives ripped from them based on a lie.
I probably missed the story where she is suing the federal government for altering the WTC toxins safety report on behalf of those exposed. She's a lawyer,right? How much is she going for?
ALL EXPOSED TO WTC TOXINS SHOULD BE GETTING REPARATIONS AND HEALTH SUPPORT CHECKS, BIG ONES, NOW. Finance it with a recreational hemp tax if there is no money left from the war.
It was government negligence that put the city on lock down and lied about the test results. For years they denied there was even a problem.
Senator Clinton was in a position of power on 9/11. What's her position on 9/11 as an inside job? Has she said anything constructive on the issue or is she still talking that Osama bull shit?
Over the last few years Senator Clinton started to shift on the World Trade Center issue, but it's too little too late. The time to deal with it was at the beginning.
SENATOR CLINTON, YOU ARE NO HARRIET TUBMAN
Harriet Tubman never lost a passenger on her train runs. Nope. Not never. She put the Lord first. Tubman put her life on the line to fight for those in her care.
Harriet Tubman was a war nurse and a military general in the Civil War, not a spectator in the hospital seeing what a nurse does all day. Did Senator Clinton clean out any bed pans or wipe up any puke during her recent photo op?
If not, I don't know how she can say she took the tour to understand a day in the life of a nurse.
When Sen. Clinton announced with pride about how she worked to award Harriet Tubman $10,000 in back military pay, about 90 years after Tubman's death, it seemed like a joke at first, then an insult.
Is that what The General was worth? Tubman was of greater value on the auction block, though not to herself or her people.
In retrospect, if Harriet Tubman, with all she did, was only worth $10,000......
If we are to grow as a nation, we must restore sanity to government and stop making the same stupid mistakes, putting the same selfish families in office again, and again, and possibly again.
I'm voting for the department of peace, no more torture for people or cruelty to animals, hemp legalization, restoring the Bill of Rights, common sense economics, repairing the damage this country has done, health solutions at both the cause and effect levels, empowering computerization, and a government managed from a uniting spirit, with the highest good for all concerned as its guiding principle.
I am voting Kucinich in '08.
