Keeping the Peace...

Progressive Democrats of America are working to keep the movement towards peace in this campaign.With the Healthcare not Warfare Petition, we're bringing this message to the Democratic convention this week.
To sign the petittion, visit the website
www.pdamerica.org

On the site ,there is also information about the "Million Doors for Peace action , to take place on September 20. Across America, citizens will be going door to door with the message of Peace.


As Martin Luther King Jr. observed forty years ago, "A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death." While the insurance and pharmaceutical industries post huge profits, the U.S. health care crisis grows steadily worse.

Today, nearly one in six Americans has no health insurance. Tens of millions of others are woefully under-insured. Meanwhile the war in Iraq drains our resources and overburdens our budget. Our government's duty is to protect us--security begins with our health and well-being at home. In 2008, we have an historic opportunity to turn from warfare to health care for all.

We call on the Democratic Party at all levels--in party platforms and resolutions--to commit to redirecting wasteful and unnecessary military spending to meet human needs. This commitment must start with comprehensive, guaranteed health care--driven by the needs of patients and the judgment of doctors. We call on Democrats to support a plan that eliminates any financial barriers between the patient and healthcare providers, resulting in a patient not receiving medically necessary care.

We call on members of Congress to bring the troops home from Iraq and to pass H.R. 676, Rep. John Conyers' bill which guarantees comprehensive publicly-funded, privately-delivered health care for everyone in the U.S.

Prior to the Democratic National Convention in Denver, this petition will be delivered to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, DNC Chair Howard Dean and your member of Congress.

For more information, visit the Progressive Democrats of America website;
www.pdamerica.org
or contact Rep. Mike Mrowicki at www.southeastkingdom.net

Working Together For You...

                          Now We Just Need a New Governor ! 

 July  14, 2008     from Brattleboro Reformer

    Alongside the newest of the safety concerns emanating from the Entergy Louisiana nuclear plant in Vernon, is another elephant in our collective living room. Vermonters could get stuck with the costs of decommissioning this aging plant because of Gov. Doulglas’ veto of the bill to make Entergy pay for it’s own costs of doing business..
 

    The plant will close. This much is sure. It might be tomorrow if safety concerns keep rising up. Or it might be in 2012. Whatever the date, it will close someday. 
 

    Knowing that reality, the legislature worked to pass bills this year to ensure the best interest of Vermonters. We considered both the safety concerns outside the plant, as well as the economic well being of Vermonters (including workers inside the plant who might want to look at the corporate history of how entities like this actually treat their employees when things get tough).

    Increasingly, it’s becoming apparent Entergy Louisiana –and this governor-don’t seem to be on the same page as Vermonters on these issues. With this governor’s veto of our bill to ensure Entergy Louisiana covers it’s own costs of doing business, Vermonters could get stuck with paying for the hundreds of millions of dollars in costs of closing the plant. 
 

    The Entergy plan to create a Limited Liability Corporation for 6 of it’s most aging nuclear plants is a thinly veiled attempt at sanctioned corporate welfare. This tactic has been all too prevalent in the corporate business climate fostered in the Bush era. Like many other cases nationwide, corporate interests are foisting their liabilities off on taxpayers, while they take the profits and run. The legislature tried to avert this scenario in Vermont and the governor vetoed the bill.
The positive aspect of this is that legislators from all over Vermont got to see that Entergy Louisiana has brought this type of corporate mindset to Vermont. A mindset which does not put the best interests of all Vermonters as priority one.

    Legislators realized that and stood up for Vermonters. The governor vetoed the bill pushing the tab across the table to Vermonters. He sided with Entergy Louisiana and the corporate interests that have brought us Enron, Exxon, Love Canal and 3 Mile Island.

    Legislators across Vermont now have no doubts how vigilant we need to be dealing with Entergy Louisiana. We will continue to work together, and build the bridges beyond Windham County to spread across Vermont and keep the health and economic safety of Vermonters paramount. And, with a new governor, we’ll all be working together on this.