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This is exactly the kind of item I am looking for. Hopefully, we can attract more readers and writers to make this a collaborative, educational tool for Reform in KS and the nation.

Indeed, voting for candidates that sell us out to foreign (or domestic) interests is not just wasting a vote: it is effectively a treacherous vote! a sell-out of one's own family and one's neighbors for the empty return of pragmatism. What a bill of goods the elite and their media have sold us: that the majority are convinced that they must vote for people that are representing big money rather than their constituents, the ones voting.

The primary complaint against England was against "Taxation without Representation:" that policies directing the affairs of the colonists and demanding money from them were being decided by officials outside of the influence of the colonists. (Did the English subjects in England have any more influence on similar policies?)

The new republic that emerged from the Revolutionary War claimed to have resolved that injustice. The officials that wrote the laws, that levied taxes, and (to some degree) that enforced those laws were directly elected by the people or were selected by their representatives.

But now we are faced with the corporate buy-out (and often even international) of the majority of our elected officials, putting us in the orwellian situation of having essentially no representation by our elected "representatives."

Send the Corporate Lobbyists Back Home! Tell them to lobby the American corporations that have moved their factories to other countries to bring them back. Tell them to lobby the American companies that hire illegal aliens with impunity to cease their anti-American practices that expect Americans to buy their products and yet that refuse to offer them a living wage.

The big national and international corporations have largely proven that they hold the American consumers in contempt. Our government has proven that they condone, share, and promote their contemptuous behavior.

It is time for the American consumer to shun their selfishness and find pro-American businesses for their needs.

The Reform Party of Kansas should become a leader in requesting pro-American companies unite in presenting to the American consumers a wide range of products and services. At the same time we should ask them to consider expanding their offerings to cover gaps in the availability of products and services, especially those that have been lost to foreign markets.

In this effort, this loose coalition of pro-American companies can begin to discover new opportunities for employment for the increasing number of American workers that been unable to find work as hundreds of American factories have been closed due to the selfish greed of executives.

Company executives have shown this type of greed in our country's past. Now they have thrown all pretense of civility to the gutters, as they lobby for NAFTA, GATT, CAFTA, FTAA, unfettered illegal entry of foreigners for cheap labor, and most recently, even unlimited "legal" hiring of both skilled and unskilled workers under George W. Bush's latest blanket amnesty guest worker bill.

It is time to vote for America! It is time to vote for Kansas! It is time to Vote Reform!

Don't waste your Vote! Vote Reform!

Joseph Martin, Chairman
Reform Party of Kansas