Wake Up, America: Kucinich at DNC: Video (6min 4sec). Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) addresses the Democratic National Convention. "Wake Up America! In 2001, the oil companies, the war contractors, and the neocon-artists seized the economy and added Four Trillion Dollars in unproductive spending to the national debt. We now pay 4 times more for defense, 3 times more for gasoline and home heating oil, and twice what we paid for health care.
"Millions of Americans have lost their jobs, their homes, their health care, their pensions, trillions of dollars for an unnecessary war paid for with borrowed money. Tens of billions of dollars in cash and weapons disappeared into thin air at the cost of the lives of our troops and innocent Iraqis, while all the president's oil men are manuevering to grab Iraq's oil. Borrowed money to bomb bridges in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan - NO money to rebuild bridges in America. Money to start a Hot War with Iran - now we have another Cold War with Russia. And the American economy has become a game of Russian Roulette. And if there were an Olympics of misleading, mismanaging, and misappropriating, this administration would take the gold. World records..., World records for violations of national and international law.
"They want another four year term to continue to alienate our allies, spend our children's inheritance, and hollow out the economy. Wake Up, America! We cannot afford another Republican administration. Wake Up, America! The insurance companies took over health care. Wake Up, America! the pharmaceutical companies took over drug pricing. Wake Up, America! The speculators took over Wall Street. Wake Up, America! They want your social security. Wake Up, America! Multinational corporations took over our trade policies. Factories are closing. Good paying jobs are being lost. Wake Up, America! We went into Iraq for Oil. The oil companies want more. War against Iran will mean $10 a Gallon Gasoline. The oil administration, they want to drill more..., into your wallet. Wake Up, America! Contractors want more. The war contractors want more. An Iran War will cost 5 to 10 Trillion Dollars.
"Now, this administration can tap our phones; they can't tap our creative spirit. They can open our mail, but they can't open economic opportunities. They can track our every move, but they lost track of the economy while the cost of food, gasoline and electricity skyrockets. They have skillfully played our post-9/11 fears and they have allowed the few to profit at the expense of the many. Every day, we get the color 'orange', while the oil companies, the insurance companies, the speculators, the war contractors get the color 'green'. Wake Up, America!
"Now, this is not a call for you to take a new direction from right to left. This is a call for you to go from Down to Up. Up with the rights of workers! Up with wages! Up with fair trade! Up with creating millions of good-paying jobs, rebuilding our bridges, our water system, our sewer system, our ports! Up with creating millions of sustainable energy jobs to lower the cost of energy, lower carbon emission and protect the environment! Up with health care for all! Up with education for all! Up with homeownership! Up with guaranteed retirement benefits! Up with peace! Up with prosperity! Up with the Democratic Party! Up with Obama-Biden! Wake up, America! Wake up, America! Wake up, America!"
This is full transcript: Dennis Kucinich addresses the Democratic National Convention, 2008.
