WOULD YOU DRINK THIS WATER?

As you prepare to vote next week, consider the following two issues: Fracking, which you’ve heard of; and the Trans Pacific Partnership, of which you may not be aware. Both issues are represented in that glass.

Fracking:

In states throughout the nation, people are finding discolored, contaminated water coming from their water supplies. In every case, it’s happened shortly after companies in their areas began fracking operations nearby, to extract oil and natural gas.

Fracking requires the use of hazardous chemicals mixed with copious quantities of water to drive the oil and gases out of the ground. Over a very short period of time, the residual pollutants make their way into the groundwaters that supply drinking water.

Tennessee is just now moving ahead in earnest to ‘tap our natural resources and supply jobs to the surrounding communities’. It sounds a lot better than it is. Let’s put it another way. Companies will ravage the ground on your land or on land nearby, and leave you with the ‘externalities’, the (unintended) consequences of their profit-making schemes. They profit at your, and your neighbors’ expense. Is this what you want?

The TransPacific Partnership (TPP)

The TPP has been called NAFTA on steroids. The truth is that it might be even worse. Here’s what it does that you should be aware of:

It takes away local, state and even national sovereignty, the rights of communities to pass regulations for the benefit and protection of the citizens and their environment. 

Here’s how it works. Nations sign on to the TPP. The agreements allow companies to do whatever they want, in our nation, in your state, and in your community -- even if it harmful to the citizens. 

So, a company that sets up a fracking operation in your back yard can despoil the land, take its profits and leave communities with the bills for clean up, though sometimes clean up will be out of the question. Communities will be disrupted much like they were when the Three Mile Island nuclear disaster occurred a generation ago.

What’s just as insane is that if the community passes ordinances to stop their activities, the companies can sue for the profits they ’might have made’, if the community acquiesced and let them have their way.

Now, fracking is only one component of the agreement. The TPP will impact your: 

Access to prescription drugs, and what you’ll pay for them. If they extend patent protection for fifty (50) years instead of seventeen (17), you’ll lose access to generic drugs forever!)

Access to the internet and what it will cost you

Access to food, free of GMOs and other harmful ingredients

See more in the links below.

Chapter after chapter, the agreement slices off citizens’ rights with virtually no recourse in the courts. None at all.

Would you drink that water? Or swallow what these agreements are trying to foist upon you?

If your answer is ‘NO!, then realize that if you vote for Chuck Fleischmann, he will vote FOR this, and other agreements (there’s a European agreement in the works, too.)

If you believe your community has Rights, that your state has Rights, and that YOU HAVE RIGHTS, then you must 

VOTE for Dr.Mary Headrick to protect your rights. 

The other guy won’t.

VOTE for GORDON BALL to protect your rights. 

The other guy won’t.

http://www.citizen.org/Page.aspx?pid=3306&q=TPP 

http://www.citizen.org/documents/TPP-corporate-factsheets.pdf 

http://news.rapgenius.com/Transpacific-partnership-tpp-negotiating-parties-tpp-ip-chapter-leaked-draft-section-i-internet-service-providers-appx-lyrics 

I urge you, neighbors, 

VOTE MARY HEADRICK! 

In Less Than a Week

Lets start a groundswell campaign to recreate our nation:
In less than a week, We can 

Rid ourselves of bad legislators. We can start here in the TN 3rd by casting out Chuck Fleischmann:

He has the best health insurance while he denies his own constituents that very same right. In less than a month we can vote him out of office.

He has kept his job and his pay while shutting down the government, putting the nation at risk and furloughing millions of his fellow Americans. In less than a month we can put him out of office and get our country back.

He has freedom to benefit from insider trading while arresting his fellow Americans if they try to do it. In less than a month we can be rid of him.

He voted over 50 times to repeal the Affordable Care Act to deprive his own constituents of quality healthcare. Now YOU can vote to repeal HIM.

He voted to shut down the US Government. In less than a month we can vote to shut him out of it.

He voted to starve Women, Infants and Children. In less than a month, we can vote to remove him from office.

Tick, tick, tick…….

Need more?
We can regain our status on the world stage
We can regain control over our financial systems to be sure they never fail again
We can rewrite laws that harm the majority of Americans and replace them with laws that build a better nation.
We can protect our environment against fracking
We can pass laws supporting environment-improving technologies
We can have our Democracy back
We can have safety nets for our children
We can have sensible government
We can build on our strengths, rebuild our lives
We can have low-interest loans for college
We can allow medical professionals cross state borders to serve our most needy
 We can have single-payer health insurance
 We can have lawmakers who work for us
 We can take back our schools
 We can take back our infrastructure
 We can eliminate predatory lending
 We can control prescription drug costs
We can pass laws to protect all Americans from unlawful intrusions