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We are Americans, We have the right to participate and debate any administration.
-Hillary Rodham Clinton
Yep, that’s right. I opened my big fat mouth and out came a bunch of [tag]liberal[/tag], emotional [tag]woman-speak[/tag] aimed at my annoyingly conservative facto-mondo co-workers. Fuckers. Instead of having a rational discussion about why [tag]Dubya sucks[/tag], I started shrilly soapboxing about this administration’s disconnection from citizens of my “type.” I know the president is not directly responsible for me losing my home and not being able to afford a new one and for the dismal condition of our economy and for my son’s sorry excuse for a school and for this state’s pathetic options for medical insurance. Ok. I know it. But, dammit, if I don’t see the [tag]American Way[/tag] of life slowly slipping away into some kind of freaky Star Trek space time continuum and damned if I don’t need someone to be accountable. “It’s a state and local problem,” just doesn’t cut it for me anymore. It’s not enough.
Back to my [tag]knitting[/tag]…knit, knit, knit. Knit, don’t think. Knit, don’t drink. 
Fight Poverty
I received this letter from One.org:
What if you or I wanted the opportunity to earn a good living, or could grow something for less money, and we weren’t allowed? Right now, poor farmers and poor countries in Africa and other parts of the world can’t do that because of unfair trade rules.
Together, we can change this. Please sign on to the ONE Big Noise letter today and ask our leaders to make trade fair.
We need to help small farmers, here at home and abroad, but with the current trade rules, it’s a game no one could win. Their cotton could compete with anyone’s, except that governments around the world give so much money to some big farmers that they can actually then sell their cotton all over the world below cost. Those payments make other cotton farmers poorer everywhere else, and keep people from being able to use hard work and the opportunities given to them to make better lives for themselves and their children.
We called on world leaders to do more at the G8 Summit to fight extreme poverty and global AIDS. They heard us, and now this is the next step in helping the world’s poorest people. In December, the world will sit down at trade talks in Hong Kong to consider rewriting these unfair trade rules. We’ll need a global deal to address a global problem, because no one will change these unfair policies unless all rich countries agree, at once. Our leaders need to know that we’re still watching and want real progress.
Add your name to the ONE Big Noise letter today and ask President Bush to take this opportunity to fight extreme poverty by making trade fair.
This isn’t about handouts, it’s about giving people who work hard and play by the rules a hand up so they can take care of themselves. Together, we can make ONE Big Noise that will be heard around the world
Thank you,
The ONE Team
one.org
