[Vision2020] FW: Showdown in U.S. Senate Oppose Walton Family

[TIM RIGSBY]

" 'Politics is the art of controlling your environment.' That is one of the 
key things I learned in these years, and I learned it the hard way. Anybody 
who thinks that 'it doesn't matter who's President' has never been Drafted 
and sent off to fight and die in a vicious, stupid War on the other side of 
the World -- or been beaten and gassed by Police for trespassing on public 
property -- or been hounded by the IRS for purely political reasons -- or 
locked up in the Cook County Jail with a broken nose and no phone access and 
twelve perverts wanting to stomp your ass in the shower. That is when it 
matters who is President or Governor or Police Chief. That is when you will 
wish you had voted." - Hunter S. Thompson




>From: "Buffy Wicks, WakeUpWalMart.com" <info at wakeupwalmart.com>
>Reply-To: info at wakeupwalmart.com
>To: tim.rigsby at hotmail.com
>Subject: Showdown in U.S. Senate – Oppose Walton Family
>Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2006 13:35 -0400
>
>Dear Tim,
>
>The Walton family has no shame.
>
>At the same time America faces a costly war, record debt and soaring gas 
>prices, the Walton family, worth over $80 billion, has the nerve to lobby 
>our government to repeal the estate tax.
>
>Repealing the estate tax will not benefit 99% of Americans, and will give 
>the wealthiest 1% of Americans a nearly $1 trillion tax giveaway over the 
>next 10 years.  In fact, the Walton family alone will get a $32 billion tax 
>break.
>
>Are we going to let President Bush and the right-wing Republicans in the 
>U.S. Senate give the Walton family a $32 billion tax cut while real 
>Americans struggle just to make ends meet?
>
>Your action is critical.  The showdown over the estate tax is tomorrow and 
>the vote is very close.
>
>Please write your U.S. Senator today and tell him/her to stand up for the 
>American people and oppose repealing the estate tax for billionaires like 
>the Waltons.
>
>http://www.wakeupwalmart.com/letters/tax.html
>
>According to a new report by Public Citizen and United for a Fair Economy, 
>over the last decade, the Walton family, along with 17 other wealthy 
>families, has spent nearly $200 million to lobby Congress to repeal the 
>estate tax.
>
>This is not democracy.  America was founded on the belief that our 
>government should be of, by and for the people.  Unfortunately, under 
>President Bush and the Republican Party, Wal-Mart and the Walton family has 
>been able to use our government to line its own pockets at the expense of 
>the American people.
>
>Rather than stand up for America, Wal-Mart uses its influence to ship our 
>jobs overseas and not provide company health care to more than half of its 
>employees.  We cannot allow Wal-Mart, and now the Walton family, to take 
>America in the wrong direction.
>
>It’s time to take our country back from billionaires and billion dollar 
>corporations and fight for the American people.
>
>Please write your U.S. Senator today and tell him/her you oppose repealing 
>the estate tax for billionaires like the Walton family while average 
>Americans are struggling to get by:
>
>http://www.wakeupwalmart.com/letters/tax.html
>
>Only you have the power to change Wal-Mart, fight for everyday people and 
>change America for the better.
>
>Thank you for all that you,
>
>Buffy Wicks
>http://www.wakeupwalmart.com
>
>P.S. Please forward this message on to at least 5 of your friends.  The 
>faster we grow the faster we can have real change in America.
>
>
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