Why Congress Needs to Change

I got this from my friend Brett...hopefully, this will help you decide who to vote for this Fall.

Global Warming; The Taliban reasserting itself in Afghanistan; Iraq hurling toward open civil war; 47 million Americans without health care and the number raising; budget deficits hitting record level; increase inflationary pressure and raising interest rates; tuition cost raising; student loans becoming more expensive and middle class kids being priced out of college; New Home purchases flat; a poll indicating people in our allied countries view the US as a greater threat to world peace then Iran and North Korea; Oil prices raising; energy dependence increasing; nearly 2 million more Americans dropping below the poverty line; Fortune 500 companies dropping pensions and retirement benefits to their retired employees; wages stagnant; Department of Health and Human Services warns us to limit our intake of fish due to heavy metal poisoning at save time mercury is reclassified as a chemical subject to voluntary emission standards; 20,000 US service men seriously injured in Iraq and Afghanistan and veterans benefits being cut and Walter Reed hospital shut down to be replaced a hospital to be built entirely with private donations; New York City sees a 40% decrease in funding from homeland security because “it contains no national monuments or likely terrorist targets” , Hurricane season is beginning and New Orleans is still a mess with no dams levys or protections in place and the bulk of its displaced population still homeless. The US is now viewed as a nation that tortures by international human rights organizations, local police and fire services being trimmed back as federal grant to municipalities decreases. US government still has not reached its funding pledge to help special needs students under IDEA yet imposes additional testing requirements and regulations on public schools without funding. Congress fails to re authorize the 1965 voters rights act which abolished poll taxes and jim crow laws suppressing minorities voting rights. After leading the way in computer technology the United States now ranks 17th in the world for inter access. In only 13 states is it illegal to fire someone solely for their sexual orientation. The value of the dollar is plummeting and our foreign trade deficit is still increasing at records levels. The average American has zero dollars in savings.

AND THIS IS THE AGENDA CONGRESS WILL BE OCCUPIED WITH FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE TERM:

http://speaker.house.gov/library/misc/060627americanvalues.shtml