Businesses, chamber, superintendent endorse through-town highway route

Our beautiful 88 acre farm is to be paved to kill the town of Pequot Lakes?
Wake up! your neighborhood is being desroyed!

Don't let it happen! They are still "stealing" what little land we have left in the old rural area in Ohio I live it. Nothing can ever be the same. Corporations buying farms, with the help of the government, and building housing developments, condos, businesses.
We have little farm land or wooded land left, none near me. They even help them get around building on flood plains and protected swamp area. It goes way back here.
My family's land was taken in the 40's and 50's part to the Military, the rest to build a Dam and later a State Park. It divided the County to where our neighbors to the North and us South, feel like we're 50 or more miles away. And that is in a 25 Sq. mile County.
I won't even talk about the land taken to make I-80S (I-76 almost in my backyard,) I-80 (turnpike,) or new 224.
I don't believe in taking land (even at above value) except may be for park land, reserves, and open spaces. Still then I'm not sure unless the owner agrees. Don't let it happen to your community!

Why should people NOT vote for Republicans? Well... they have:

...ALLOWED OIL COMPANY MERGERS again and again, so that now there’s no real competition, which is part of why gasoline is now NEAR $4.00/GALLON.

...done NEARLY NOTHING ABOUT ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION because they want big companies to have lots of cheap labor available. Now with less than six months before the elections, Bush’s INS has finally conducted a few raids.(ILLEGAL immigration should be stopped no matter what country people are coming in from.)

...spent OVER FIVE HUNDRED BILLION DOLLARS IN IRAQ, and accomplished very little (except killing thousands and generally make a huge mess with no end in sight). Oh, and Bin Laden was IN AFGHANISTAN and is apparently STILL RUNNING AROUND LOOSE. Spending BILLIONS and BILLIONS while allowing giant tax loopholes to the richest Americans and huge corporations has destroyed the value of the dollar, RAISING THE COST OF EVERYTHING.

...set up a system for TORTURING SUSPECTED TERRORISTS, the LIED and said that we don’t torture.

...FAILED to provide proper armor for tanks used by our service men and women in Iraq.

...MIS-MANAGED the Veterans’ Administration hospitals, providing substandard treatment to our soldiers.

...WAITED ABOUT FOUR DAYS TO REACT TO HURRICANE KATRINA. On the day Katrina came ashore, Bush was sharing CAKE with John McCain at a FUNDRAISING EVENT (see the picture at http://www.newsweek.com/id/133551 ) While people were still clinging to rooftops, do you remember Bush saying,“Brownie, you’re doing a heck of a job”?

...appointed former drug industry representatives to be the “watchdogs” at the Food and Drug Administration, resulting in the approval of dangerous drugs and ones that had not been properly tested. When possible, prevented generic drugs from hitting the market and prevented Americans from getting prescription drugs from Canada.

...allowed all kinds of businesses to merge with no checks and balances. Such a small amount of competition means businesses are in a position to pretty much CHARGE WHATEVER THEY WANT. We still have some anti-trust laws, but they are almost never enforced.

...consistently fought against requiring better gas mileage in vehicles, so people with huge cars use up to six times what small and medium sized cars do.(Leave some for the rest of us, would ya?)

...aligned themselves with far-right, wacko “religious” nuts and PREACHED to us about morals, and then have repeatedly been caught soliciting sex in public parks, airport restrooms, etc.(Stay out of other people’s private lives, and when YOU have sex, GET A ROOM like a normal person!)

...deregulated the home loan industry to allow all kinds of “funny money” loans, contributing to the problem of 900,000 HOMES BEING IN FORECLOSURE RIGHT NOW.

Had enough? I hope you’ll vote for ANYONE BESIDES McCAIN, and contribute whatever you can to stop the Republicans. www.democrats.org www.moveon.org www.barackobama.com

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