Chupacabra Report

Well, if you’ve been watching the Congress, you must have noticed that the moneyed interests in the oil, coal, electric and chemical industries are having their way with the energy bill. Same way with the pharmaceutical and health insurance industries lobbying to neuter the coming healthcare legislation.

President Obama will go to bat for these issues crucial to the health of the US economy, and that of the planet itself. Healthcare costs are breaking this country, while we fall behind all but third-world nations in quality and delivery of care; and carbon emissions are changing the climate, while we send a billion dollars a day to some of the worst dic-taters on earth to fuel our gas guzzlers and plastic trash habit.

Remember the story about the Pullman porters going to Washington and telling FDR that they needed the right to organize? He told them “I agree, now build yourselves a constituency and make me do it.”

Please write your Congressman, call or send an email,
( https://writerep.house.gov/writerep/welcome.shtml)

even if they are useless Torys or blow-dog Democrats. Tell them that you want a real cap on carbon emissions; to put a price on pollution that will give us all incentive to be more energy efficient. And tell them that you want the healthcare bill to include a robust and affordable government run health insurance plan to compete with the for-profit insurance companies.

Make them do it.