Roger Hickey
Roger Hickey
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Insider corruption explains its bewildering and unfair complexity, and it explains the excessive costs of the program.
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Americans United to Protect Social Security - which successfully mobilized to stop Bush's Wall Street Social Security plan - grew directly out of our work to build a nationwide activist coalition to oppose Social Security privatization. This new campaign, organized with a broader issue mandate, will build on and amplify the work of the Campaign for America's Future and many other groups around the issues of cleaning up corruption in government; health care; energy independence and the other 'kitchen table' economic issues Americans care about.
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This campaign to connect the cost of corruption to the American people has just begun.
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It was a really ambitious machine that they attempted to build and it was effective in destroying our democracy for quite some time. That is, he and his associates brought themselves down because they attempted to abdicate a lot of the rules of our democracy.
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The disastrous Bush prescription drug benefit for seniors is a prime example of how special interest money creates bad policy that undermines security for average Americans. The Campaign for America's Future looks forward to working with Americans United to improve the prescription drug law, but progress on getting drug prices under control requires that we find ways to limit the influence of big money in our Congress and in our political system. We will work for economic change - while cleaning up corruption in our democratic system that weakens the voice of average Americans.
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Tom DeLay was brought down by the arrogance and political ambition of the political money machine he helped to build.
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The people of Houston know he has something to hide. We hope their TV stations don't betray their First Amendment rights and obligations by capitulating.