To those who vote Republican...

[Wetzelbill]

Gardner S. Thomas

To those who vote Republican...

If in the past you have voted Republican, there are a small few things I am asking that you sincerely consider before doing so again sheerly from force of habit:


It is I who have sacrificed a year of my life for YOUR president's war, and a larger portion of my life toiling in support of it.


They are over 3,000 of MY close friends and comrades who have been horrifically slain; their wives widowed; their children orphaned; in order to lower YOUR gasoline costs by twenty-five cents per gallon.


It is MY 80 year old World War II Veteran father who will spend his remaining time on earth eating the spaghetti-o's and ramen noodles that YOUR crippled social security system affords him.


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[murielm99]

1. Kick

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[AwakeAtLast]

9. Welcome to DU!

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[liberaldemocrat7]

7. Send this letter to congress today!

Send this letter to congress today!

Copy and paste the letter below and email it directly to [e-mail] the Republican Party and get many others to send this letter. Thank you. Drop me a message to [e-mail] with the subject Done after you have sent the email.


Hello

Get your Republican party to end the war by Dec. 2007 with Bush and Cheney resigning, and until you do we stop buying televisions, refrigerators, stoves, ovens, dishwashers, dvd players, stereo equipment, light bulbs from one of your party's major contributors and War contractors General Electric Corporation ( 203 373 2211 ) who cannot afford to lose a large sector of the publics business and money.

Get your Republican party to enact HR 676 Single payer universal health care into law by Dec. 2007 and repeal Medicare Part D and place the prescription drug benefit in Medicare Part B covering 80 percent of all medication with no extra premiums, no extra deductibles,
no means tests, no coverage gaps, and until you do, we will not buy consumer products and prescription drugs from the biggest 3 pharmacy chains and GOP contributors in the country Eckerd, CVS, and Walgreens and we will not buy health insurance from Blue Cross Blue Shield and Aetna, the 2 biggest health insurance companies that give money to the GOP as well, who cannot afford to lose a large sector of the publics business and money.

Get your Republican party to enact a $10 an hour minimum wage by Dec. 2007, and until you do, we will not go to the following restaurants and GOP contributors Wendy's, Outback Steakhouse, Olive Garden, Red Lobster, and Dominos Pizza who cannot afford to lose a large sector of the publics business and money.

Get your Republican party to enact into law Universal vote by mail with paper ballots counted by civil servants with civil servants registering voters and keeping track of registrations by Dec. 2007, and until you do, we will not buy any GOP contributor Dell computers or monitors or go to the following restaurants and GOP contributors Wendy's, Outback Steakhouse, Olive Garden, Red Lobster, and Dominos Pizza who cannot afford to lose a large sector of the publics business and money.

[Saturday]

3. My gasoline was lowered by....

twenty five cents per gallon??? Not in my neighborhood.

[Arkansas Granny]

4. Kick!

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[treestar]

5. I would recommend modifying the second statement

You can't possibly be personal close friends of everyone who happened to be killed in the war, let alone 3000 people.

[Wetzelbill]

6. he was in the military

so I think he means close friends by way of sharing that same background. It's a familial thing.

[Pacifist Patriot]

8. Don't ignore the "and comrades" part of the sentence.

It is pretty normal for people in the military to refer to all servicemen and women as their comrades whether they knew them personally or not.