American Dream Movement Protests at Blackburn's Office in Franklin

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If the U.S. can't pay its bills, please cut Marsha Blackburn off the payroll first!

Blackburn is an ironic elected official.  She says that government does not work well, and then gets elected to make that come true!  Blackburn and her kind are bent on destroying the government however they can---from simple gumming up the works to the more fundamental total anhiliation of the U.S. government.

On July 26, 2011, Williamson County residents gathered in front of Blackburn's office to decry Blackburn's unwillingness to nip one, tiny loophole that helps super-wealthy people and giant corporations....while pushing to cut off social security, medicare and medicaid from the Americans who need it most in this bleak Bush-Blackburn depression. 

Blackburn also wants to delete the department of education, the environmental protection agency and the FCC, among other government functions. 

Blackburn, who counts AT&T, Comcast and Verizon among her major contributors, wants the government to turn the Internet, which taxpayers and the U.S. government developed and paid for, over to those same Internet Service Providers, to use and abuse and carve up with their only guiding star being corporate profits.  Pooh on the First Amendment and the public interests and the idea that the Internet is the last level playing for candidates who do not have the huge corporate money behind them.

"Let them eat cake," is Blackburn's attitude, out of sight, out of mind, just keep the poor ones hidden and out of my pathway. 

Remember it was Blackburn who infamously and ignorantly said during a congressional hearing: "We can't cry 'emergency' every time we have a Katrina, every time we have a Tsunami!"

Debt Ceiling Protest in Franklin, on Newschannel5

Link:  http://www.newschannel5.com/story/15151570/tennessee-protesters-urge-congress-to-act-on-debt

7 Protestors Get Justice as Judge Asserts First Amendment Trumps Radical Right

By Richard Locker

The Commercial Appeal  July 15, 2011

NASHVILLE -- Seven young men and women -- six from Memphis -- who were dragged out of a state legislative committee hearing in March while protesting anti-union bills were found not guilty Friday by a Nashville judge of all charges against them.

All seven were charged by capitol police with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest on March 15 after they began chanting in a Senate committee hearing, refused to leave and were physically removed by capitol police and state troopers.

Corporate Health Insurance Trap Ensares Would-Be American Entrepreneurs

How Our Health Care System Cripples Small Business

by Wendell Potter on July 11th, 2011

‘Best and brightest’ resisting lure of innovative firms due to coverage fears.

Want to be an entrepreneur but also be certain you’ll have health insurance?

Good luck with that. You might seriously consider moving to Denmark or Canada.

'Exceptional' at BS'ing.....While Losing Ground to Every Nation

By Harry Shearer

LONDON -- As I write this I'm flying back to America, specifically New Orleans, to celebrate July 4 by watching fireworks over the Mississippi River. I say that right up here at the top to establish my Yank bonafides. In addition, my parents sought out this country as a refuge (one denied, it should be noted, to many of their equally desperate compatriots), so I've never stopped being grateful that, at least for them, for that special moment, the golden door was open.

But we're three trillion dollars down, the latest reports say, in trying to -- to what?