Vermont Economy at a Glance

  • FY12 Budget Shortfall: $176 million, or 14%
    • One Family's Share: $1,132
  • Population: 621,760   Unemployment Rate: 6.2%   Poverty Rate: 9.4%
  • Median Household Income: $50,619
  • Potential Public Revenue from tax on natural resource extraction: $1,2 Billion / year
    • One Family's Share: $7,720 yearly
    • Currently collected by corporations tax-free
  • Cumulative Afghan & Iraq War Cost to Vermont:
    • $1,724,493,495 ...Not counting the cost of the illegal war in Libya!
    • One Family's Share: $11,904
Full Documentation on the Cost of War to Vermont families courtesy of CostOfWar.com.

Vermont Independent Senate Campaign

Jan 132010
 

My name is Robert Wagner and I’m running for the Vermont Senate for Addison County & Brandon.

I will be bothering as many of you as possible personally over the next weeks and months to sign my petition to represent you in the VT Senate as an Independent, and I’ll be listening to your concerns.

We Independents are 9 so far and hope to field additional candidates.  We intend to run for every seat in the Senate.

Here’s what I’m all about:

1. NO further Vermont support for War, Torture…or deployment of VT National Guard. Order the Guard home now.

2. NOT a dime more for Wall Street…Invest VT funds in VT small banks and credit unions for lending here at home.

3. Build a Green Vermont via serious investments in alternative energy, human-food-agriculture, and all local community efforts towards self reliance and town/village life. Clean, green, decent, peaceful & fun.

4. Start the discussion with all Vermonters re returning our state to the status of a free Independent Republic [as we once were], maintaining free trade & good relations with all other nations of the world.

The other independents that are running, feel the same way, including Dennis Steele for Governor and Pete Garritano for Lt. Governor.

I am asking you directly for help with writing my platform. Please eMail me, robert@senatorwagner.com, or stop me in the street with your concerns, any time. This is true representation.

I won’t mince words. Thanks to Peak Oil, a speculative economic bubble and very large and irresponsible corporations, we’re all headed for a Collapse. Financial, Commercial, Political, Social, Cultural.  Many of us trusted in the past election, but the BUSH policies remain in place.  The speculative bubble has been re-inflated through bailouts, the same wars continued and were even escalated. Overseas military bases continue to be built. For what?  A fight over what oil remains? And then what?

Enough is enough. Let us gain our independence, and let the people decide what to do in a Free Vermont. Can you imagine that?

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