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You're expressing that great American political cognitive dissonance. Everyone says they're itching for change and they're tired of the same old politicians, but when someone comes along and attempts to break those traditions and bring real change, they get laughed at as social deviants. The American electorate can't blame it on Washington anymore. They've been offered change at nearly every corner, but they chose to go with status-quo out of fear and willful ignorance every time. It's been like that since our founding.
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I couldn't agree more! It is
painfully obvious that the people deserve the government they get...
And here is a prime example:
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CNN — LOU DOBBS TONIGHT — Aired March 6, 2008 - 19:00 ET
LOU DOBBS, HOST: The Air Force tomorrow, will explain why it granted a $40 billion military tanker contract to Europe's consortium that builds the Airbus and not to Boeing.
Senator Patty Murray from Washington State, representing many Boeing employees as her constituents, and she like many Americans outraged over this decision.
Senator, good to have you with us. Senator, what in the world is going on down there?
SEN. PATTY MURRAY, (D) WA: This is unbelievable to me. I was out on the floor with the Boeing workers on the line Friday afternoon when this was announced and just the unbelievable look in their eyes as they said to me, how can I be paying tax dollars, my own money, and it's going to go to a company overseas to build the planes that I know how to build. What is going on?
DOBBS: We talked about free trade before as it's practiced by this administration and the previous. You're a free trader, right?
MURRAY: I voted for trade agreements but I believe in enforcing them. And that's one of the problems with this deal ...
DOBBS: I have to say to you. We haven't enforced a trade agreement in the country in 30 years, we are being run over by the people acting in their national interests, in the interest of their employees and this government and both political parties continue to ignore the American worker. Is it finally a place to draw the line, senator?
MURRAY: I think this is a serious place to draw the line. First of all, we have trade outstanding agreement - against - in the WTO against Airbus right now because of unfair subsidies. So on one hand we're filing a trade agreement against them and on the other hand giving them $40 billion. That doesn't make sense to me.
And also we have to be asking, when are we going to stop outsourcing our military capability and realize we're putting our own security in some other country's hands and I think the line is drawn in the sand now and Congress needs to make that decision.
DOBBS: Congress needs to make that decision. This administration needs to make that decision. Every union in the country should be saying to you in my judgment in Congress, in both parties, they have had a bellyful of the nonsense.
We have international trade in this country since our founding. Now some geniuses with multinationals have come up with an expression, multinational globalization. The reality is, we have been sold a pile of goods that is absolutely incredible that an intelligent nation with our absolute depth of knowledge and our expertise, our innovation, our spirit, we are being literally rolled over by idiots in this U.S. trade representatives office, this White House and the previous.
MURRAY: Well, Lou, if we lose our own capability, our workers with the know-how, our ability to bring a plane off line, it's not going to just be gone just for a year or two. Once we lose that infrastructure, it's gone forever. Ten, 15, 20 years from now if we find ourselves in an international conflict and need to be able to call on our military in a very strong way and can't do it, that's going to be our fault.
DOBBS: Are you ready to impeach this president if he goes ahead with it?
MURRAY: I'm certainly ready to call on Congress to take a major discussion and to make a decision on whether or not we, the leaders today, are going to allow our military capability to be lost.
DOBBS: How about to recall of the Democratic leadership of the House and the Senate who are not standing up right now for American workers and saying this will not do? It will not happen?
MURRAY: I invite all of your listeners to go on our Web site and sign our petition. We are asking everyone to help us make the case that America is not going to stand still for this and we need everybody's voice.
DOBBS: We have got that up now, your Web site — Murray.senate.gov/tankers with a petition, a number of congressman and a number of senators now doing so. Senator Murray, we thank you for taking your leadership on this.
At some point, you folks in Congress have got to understand this is not a game for this nation anymore and I mean both political parties. Senator, I know you're doing your best. This free trade nonsense is as it's being practiced is devastating.
MURRAY: Lou, it's an economic question and it is a security question for our nation as well.
DOBBS: I would say to you without a strong economy we can't muster a strong defense.
MURRAY: True.
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SEN. PATTY MURRAY, (D) WASHINGTON voted for the free trade agreements.
And yet her constituents keep voting her into office...
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