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These pages are
devoted to reprinting with permission Letters to newspapers,
journals and on-line media concerning politics in Pennsylvania's
16th Congressional District.
Pitts Views Rich and
Corporations As His Constituency
by B. Gerard
Bricks, Kennett Township
The Kennett
Paper, June 12, 2008
When Mr. Pitts (R, PA
16th) wins an award from the Club for Growth (CfG) (article, May
29), the voters can be assured that the constituents whom Mr. Pitts
is serving well are the rich and the corporations – not the middle
class and the poor.
The US has become a
corporatocracy - government of, by, and for corporations, NOT of,
by, and for ‘we the people.’ Pitts and the CfG are working
diligently to ensure that this does not change.
Corporations have
outsourced jobs and cut pension plans. They locate offshore to avoid
paying their fair share of taxes. They have held wages at 1970s’
levels while paying management exorbitant salaries and bonuses. They
have cut health benefits and will withhold medical services if your
treatment cuts into their profit margin.
‘Cut taxes’ and ‘small
government’ means cut taxes for the rich and cut government services
for the rest of us, as well as, cut government regulations and
oversight so that corporations can continue to run amok.
From the military take
over of Cuba in 1898 to protect sugar plantations, to the military
take over of Iraq in 2003 for oil, multi-national corporations have
motivated a century of American warmongering to grow the empire,
their profits, and the wealth of a small elite.
‘Social security reform’
means turn your retirement over to Wall Street to fund the next
sub-prime mortgage crisis they create.
‘Legal reform’ and ‘end
abusive lawsuits’ means they risk your health and safety with no
recourse on your part.
Pitts complains of
special interests. Yet it was Rick Santorum, Tom Delay, and the
whole Republican Party who joined with K Street lobbyists and Jack
Abramoff to turn sale of our government to the corporations into a
high art form. Several have now won appropriate awards - called jail
terms.
Voters of the PA 16th
Congressional District should give Pitts an appropriate award in
November – a permanent retirement.
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