May 23, 2008
For too long we've sat back and let the politicians control us instead of the other way around.
Okay, you go to the polls to vote in the primaries to let your voice be heard. But regardless of who wins the majority of the votes, it's the super delegates who choose each nominee. Where is your voice?...
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MARCH 13, 2008
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Hunter Branson enters the presidential race.
After months of Senators Clinton and Obama battling for a spot in the presidential election against John McCain, a new candidate has decided to join the fight.
Hunter Branson, a businessman from South Carolina, is being supported by a new political party calling themselves the Brick party.
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1. Did you know it costs the U.S. taxpayers $12 billion per month to fund the war in the Middle East.1 With roughly 360 million people in the U.S., that means you're paying about $30 a month to fight this war.
2. Did you know if we cut the amount of welfare (taxpayer dollars) we gave to corporations and the affluent, we could balance the budget and maybe even pay off our national debt sooner than we think.2
3. Did you know that Congress doesn't read most of the bills they vote on? Who knows how much of our money they're taking and which of our freedoms they're giving away!?
1The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict, WW Norton, with Linda Bilmes, 2008.
2Take the Rich Off Welfare, Odonian Press, Zepezauer and Caiman. 1996