Saturday, September 17, 2005
kyl exploits hurricane dead for selfish gain
TIME.com:
Absolutely sickening. Now besides actively working to redistribute wealth from the poor to the rich, Arizona's junior Senator is now complicit in a plot to exploit dead rich people to give even more money to other rich people.
If there's one thing that people are now paying attention to in the Katrina aftermath, it's the pitiful condition in which this country's government has left its poor and middle-class citizens. The rich people along the Gulf Coast had the resources to survive the storm. They also could afford the insurance to rebuild.
Stop robbing the poor to pay the rich! And don't you DARE exploit the dead to do it!
Federal troops aren't the only ones looking for bodies on the Gulf Coast. On Sept. 9, Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions called his old law professor Harold Apolinsky, co-author of Sessions' legislation repealing the federal estate tax, which was encountering sudden resistance on the Hill. Sessions had an idea to revitalize their cause, which he left on Apolinsky's voice mail: "[Arizona Sen.] Jon Kyl and I were talking about the estate tax. If we knew anybody that owned a business that lost life in the storm, that would be something we could push back with."
Absolutely sickening. Now besides actively working to redistribute wealth from the poor to the rich, Arizona's junior Senator is now complicit in a plot to exploit dead rich people to give even more money to other rich people.
If there's one thing that people are now paying attention to in the Katrina aftermath, it's the pitiful condition in which this country's government has left its poor and middle-class citizens. The rich people along the Gulf Coast had the resources to survive the storm. They also could afford the insurance to rebuild.
Stop robbing the poor to pay the rich! And don't you DARE exploit the dead to do it!







