About
Emma Berry – Supports John Lingenfelder for US Representative from the US Congressional District 3 of Texas.
CONTACT ME AT: eebemma@yahoo.com
Welcome to this site for Emma Berry where I will post my opinions about candidates running for office in 2010.
Education: BA degree in English from the University of North Texas in Denton 1968–second generation of Texas women in my family to have received a degree from that university. My mother received her degree when the school was known as North Texas State Teachers College.
Experience: From the self-employed middle class, I have worked as a free-lance writer and researcher all my life. I know what it means to work for a living and pay taxes to support my community. I am appalled by the inequities of our tax system. I am appalled that I paid 25% of my earned income in taxes in 2008 and Goldman Sachs paid 1%. This imbalance serves no one who is interested in having a democracy.
I don’t believe that it is necessary to raise taxes on anyone–the rich or the poor. I do believe that it is necessary to start collecting what is owed from everyone. Every year for the past 10 years the USA has a tax gap of $350 billion on average of taxes owed that are not collected. Max Baucus promised in 2008 “to get right on it.” Don’t hold your breath on that promise. Baucus is the same guy who will hand over 50 million Americans as guaranteed customers for his health insurance predator buddies if he, Evan Byah and Joe Lieberman get their way. Both Byah and Lieberman have wives who are lobbyists for the health insurance industry and both couples literally have hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of health insurance stock. They do not care what you think and they do not give a flip for their constituents, much less the American people.
To tell the truth, I am fed up with the dog and pony show of both parties.
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In the wide spectrum of political possibility, I would best be classified as a Populist although not entirely. I am not a Democrat, a Republican, a liberal and certainly not a Tea Party member. In my opinion, the Tea Party activists are anarchists who want to destroy our government. I want to support it.
Populism is a just determined focus on helping people be able to get out of the iron grip of the corporate power that is overwhelming our economy, our environment, energy, the media, government. The one big difference between real populism and what the Tea Party thing is, is that real populists understand that government has become a subsidiary of corporations.
So you can’t say, let’s get rid of government. You need to be saying let’s build our government for the majority. Let’s wrestle our government back from Wall Street and its corporations that are literally sucking the breath out of the people of our nation.