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.
May 062011
 
Impeach Obama

Nobody is above the law, nobody.

For not only continuing but compounding the Bush-era coup of our Republic, the federal president deserves to have every single law-abiding citizen turn his back on him. On his hands is the blood of every Vermonter who has died or will die in these oil wars: Iraq, Afghanistan and now Libya.

May 052011
 
Ghosts of September 11th

I have long pleaded with folks to ignore ‘fatal distractions’. Now I am asking you to take a critical look at the lies to which we are subjected.

We will no longer accept the Vermont Legislature acting in the interests of federal agencies and war contractors like Lockheed. Vermont comes first.

Plant your vegetable gardens. Dig up your lawns. Share, ‘give till it hurts’. Find your community. Resist.