In the good old days Big Business was more honest.

Dec. 11, 2011 - PRLog -- Back then, Big Business openly dominated working class Americans with factory lockouts and hired Goons with clubs. But that didn't last.
   Common people faced them down, brought voter pressure for change, so Big Business changed tactics.
   Today, the hired goons of Big Business wear expensive suits, work out of pricey Washington offices and call themselves association
executives or "government relations counselors." We know them as lobbyists.
   In tune with the times, these goons have traded their clubs for hard cash, buying Congressmen, Senators and White House clout.
   No longer free to draw citizens' blood on the public streets, they're content to make us bleed from our wallets and purses at the gas pump  and in store checkout lines.
   The Good Old Days were much messier.
   Today, Big Business is nothing, if not neat. It has purchased enough votes and souls to quietly and surgically remove representative government from Washington, replacing it with a system totally beholden to special interests and fueled by your money.
   Oil companies use it to protect price gouging, -kill alternative energy sources, and reap billions in subsidies and tax breaks.
   Manufacturers use it to help ship good jobs out of the country, bring cheap labor in, and get tax breaks in the process. All Big Business  uses it to break unions, destroy pensions and avoid worker health insurance.
   How do they get away with it?
   1. They get away with it, because we let them. Passive resistance is not an effective response to rape. With no fight or push-back from the
public, they're free to do as they please; and
   2. They get away with it, because too many politicians and Administration bigwigs are dominated by "public-bedamned" special interest groups, like Big Oil, whose obscene profits are lavishly applied to the election campaigns of their loyal friends, and whose lobbyists make          
selling out America as painless as possible, by providing members of the House, Senate and the Administration with international golf outings, stretch limos, private jets, hunting lodges and a never ending stream of gifts and benefits.
   The results have been very good for them, very bad for you. In 2010, alone, a single Big Oil company is projecting profits equivalent to
over $130 from every man, woman and child in the US.
   How much is enough?
   What do you think it will take to get America off its apathy? Another million workers robbed of their pension rights or health benefits?                  
Six dollar-a-gallon gasoline? Reinstatement of the draft to provide more bodies for the Persian Gulf oil wars?
   Or are you and millions like you ready to act, if you know what to do and have the tools to do it?
   The simple fact is that, right now, we can begin the process of taking back America. If anyone in this country should own elected
officials, it should be the people.
   How we make quick change in America.
   The strategy is simple.
   First, we focus on one obvious, corrupt and greedy target, Big Oil.
   Then, because we know that Big Oil could not reap huge profits, influence wars, block alternative energy development, or collect billions  in government subsidies and tax breaks without controlling Congress, we give you the tools you need to identify the members of the House            
and  Senate from your Congressional district and state, who are selling you out, and vote them out.
Third, and most important, we use your participation to expand the fight nationally, placing ads like this one in newspapers like the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and the Washington Post, recruiting more and more fed-up voters.
.       What you get.
   When we receive your contribution, we’ll provide you with a way to fight back:
   1. A “BIG OIL CAN’T BUY YOUR VOTE” bumper sticker, showing others where you stand:
   2.Another very specific follow-up “Inquiry” for you to mail, fax or E-mail to your Member of Congress and Senators to find out whether or not they’ve been bought off by Big Oil. We’ll give you all the information you need to do that.
   Your contribution will go toward the cost of producing and placing more ads to recruit more Americans to confront their Representatives and Senators and act on what they learn.
   Why this will work.
   Every one of today’s nonprofit “good government” groups attempts to make change by playing by the rules of the same legislative game Big Oil plays better than anyone. Every one of them is losing.
   It’s like bringing a knife to a gunfight. They don’t stand a chance.
   We won’t play their game and they can’t play ours.
   Big oil can buy politicians. They cannot buy voters and votes are what put people in – or out – of office.
   No meetings. No conferences. No cumbersome organization. Just the American people, together, taking back their government.
   Make your “Inquiry” to your elected officials. If they come back with the right answers,you support them. If they come back with the wrong answers or don’t answer, you know where they stand and vote against them.
   What good will a single inquiry do?
   One Inquiry will do little. Thousands will do wonders,
   This simple inquiry below gives you much needed muscle.
   Whoever says that the average person can't compete against bags full of campaign funds, fists full of lobbyist credit cards, carte blanche at spiffy restaurants, fleets of limousines, private jets, and hunting lodges doesn't know beans about the public in general -- or you as an individual.
   Minimum wage laws, workers compensation, child labor laws, women’s right to vote, higher education assistance, occupational safety and health, unemployment compensation, and civil right laws are all goals won through public debate and citizen protest.
   We’re offering a simple and direct way to show your patriotism and fight for positive change.
   We use your donations to place more ads like this and get more media to recruit more and more Individual citizens to do the same thing.
   Net Results
   You'll get clout in the energy marketplace and a voice on Capitol Hill.
   And you'll become part of a powerful movement to force politicians to finally confront the dependence on foreign oil that's destroying the nation's economy, not to mention your checkbook and household budget.
   It's as simple as that.
       Your individual response is vital. Log on to www.joinfoil.org and support its action plan and spread the word – to neighbors, friends and co-workers.
     Last year, the current congressional majority leadership, the Republicans, took $3,298,702 from Big Oil in exchange for killing a price gouging bill and $16.5 billion in giveaways.
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