Fournier for Congress

America is in deep trouble. It’s not just the economy. Our way of life is falling apart in front of us. We used to be a nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Today we’re a homeland, divided, forced to present ID to enter a public building and forced to tolerate outlaws in public office.   Good-bye, Liberty!  Good-bye, Justice! 

Democrats and Republicans in Washington put us in this mess and they have no plans to change course. They’re going to keep on waging war, keep on making secret deals, keep us burning oil, keep on spying on us, keep on making the rich richer while the poor get poorer.

We didn’t vote for this. We didn’t vote for two wars. We didn’t vote for a trillion dollar blank check for bankers. We didn’t vote for a health care casino that leaves millions sick and broke. We didn’t vote to neglect the levees in New Orleans or to assemble mercenary armies for deployment to our streets. Democrats and Republicans in Washington, stuck in the 20th Century, gave us all that.

I’m running with the Green Party, because I’ve left the the 20th Century behind. In the 21st Century, we don’t do war. We do public works instead. We don’t do clandestine deals. We do the public interest instead. We don’t subsidize bankers, and we don’t coddle irresponsible debtors either. We don’t make people shop for health care. We join the rest of the industrialized world and make it a tax-funded entitlement. We work like hell to end fuel-burning and restore the earth, sooner rather than later.

As a lawyer and a professional persuader, I plan to put intense pressure on Democrats and Republicans to clean up their act. Restoring our republic is a dirty job, and I’ll do it if I win this election.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008 at 10:11 am and is filed under Green Party.