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January 24, 2012 | 79 notes

I would like to see a populist’s vision for President Obama’s State of the Union address. So, in play form …

[Enter Obama]

“I stand here tonight in front of the American people to say that the page has turned on corporate rule in the United States. It is time to get money completely out of politics. Time to end the congressional insider trading and lobbyists’ revolving door.

“We, from this moment on, will disallow private contributions to our public campaigns. We will insist that the richest people in this country pay their fair share of the taxes, no loopholes, no offshore bank accounts. They have enjoyed all the things that government has to offer to make their lives safe and to pretend they have done it alone is a lie. They could not have done it without a safe, stable government …

[ACT 2] “We will put into action our belief that climate change is a reality by creating an energy policy that will put us at 100% renewable energy by the year 2050. By doing so, we will bring jobs, lower healthcare costs, lower defense spending, better our quality of life and create true energy independence – while safeguarding our precious resources of water, land and air. We will take away subsidies from the fossil fuel industries, so that we see what we are actually paying for this dirty energy and understand that renewable energy is, indeed, cheaper and safer.

“It’s time for the country to invest in the future, not in the past. The future is one free of fossil fuels and free of corporate greed. It is time that corporations stop leading the decisions of this country. It is time that the well-being of the whole, and not the few, becomes the pumping heart, the teeming mind and able body of this nation, quickly carrying us all to a better brighter more peaceful world: one that can be enjoyed by the many and not the few!”

[Great and deafening applause]

-Mark Ruffalo

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