Fwd: : My final email on politics. I have made my peace with the US...G

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Sep 21, 2005 1:14 PM

[NOLA_C3_Discussion] FW: My final email on politics. I have

made my peace with the US...G

 

 

 

 

 

>Geraldole

 

>Greetings,

>

> At long last, I guess I have finally made my peace with the United

>States. It all came brilliantly clear to me last night while I was

>watching " Big

>Sugar " a documentary on the sugar industry broadcast by the Canadian

>Broadcasting Company. This documentary surely would not be shown in the

>US. PBS, the

>Petroleum Broadcasting Company, wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole.

>

> Two Cuban brothers Alfonso and Pepe Fanjul run over 70% of the sugar

>industry in the US. They have a 250,000 acre sugar plantation in the

>Dominican

>Republic. The workers there have to cut at least a ton of sugar cane daily

>in

>order to earn two dollars which they use to buy a small bag of rice for

>their

>families to eat. They have one meal a day and the children mainly eat

>sugar

>cane as their daily diet.

>

> Basically this is slavery...yes...right here in 2005. But this is the

>best

>part!!

>

> One brother Alfonso is the token family Republican. He is best buddies

>with Jeb and Dubya Bush.

>

> Pepe is the token family Democrat. He is best friends with Bill Clinton.

>For their investment of $465,000 in politics the brothers got back over

>$50,000,000 in subsidies. As a result we in the US pay three times as

>much for

>sugar as folks do in Canada or Europe.

>

> When Al Gore was VP he lost his head for a minute and gave a speech in

>Florida suggesting a 1 cent tax on sugar in order to pay for the cleanup

>of the

>Everglades which the sugar folks use as their industrial toilet, Pepe

>called

>straight to the White House. When Monica Lewinsky was doing that thing

>with

>Bill Clinton it was Pepe Fanjul that Bill was talking to on the phone.

>

> So while people debated if Kerry was electable or whether this

>Democrat

>or this Republican should run.....the bottom line is that elections and

>politics in the US is just a shell game......It doesn't matter whether a

>Dim or a

>Repug is in office; they are all corrupt.... It is the system, stupid.

>

> And the sugar story is just one thing....look at the $5 billion the US

>spends in Iraq every week and the almost 2,000 US troops killed there.

>Look at

>the drug industry which charges US citizens the highest prices in the

>world

>even though US taxpayers pay for the research for new drugs and the drug

>companies pocket the patents and profits.

>

> We don't have a democracy; we have an auction. I most that liberal

>political activists can do is nibble around the edges....a crumb here...a

>crumb

>there. Linking arms and singing Kumbyah just doesn't do it any more.

>

> I think that's about it for Oleson political commentary forever. Have

>a

>good life. Home school your kids. And don't let your children or

>grandchildren

>join the military. G

>

>************

> " Those who own the country should rule the country. " John Jay, first

>Supreme

>Court Chief Justice

>

> " In a country ruled by greed, exploitation, Christian churches,

>imperialism,

>capitalism, sexism, racism, and war, what an overwhelming burden it is to

>have a conscience. " Gerald Oleson

 

 

 

 

 

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