First words from Socialist Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant
Jan 7, 2014, 2:55 PM | Updated: 4:26 pm
City Council member Kshama Sawant has made a political career of trying to categorize people and tell them they are victims. (AP)
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Taken from Tuesday’s edition of The Dori Monson Show.
Seattle is in the news. Everybody is talking about our city. We are one of the only major cities in the country to have a declared Socialist on the city council.
Kshama Sawant is our new Socialist city councilmember. She is the one who wants to convert the war machine that is Boeing and take all of their equipment at the plant that builds airplanes and tweak it so it can start producing buses and mass transit.
When we first heard those sound bites about a month ago, we thought OK this is going to be crazy-town for the next four years. I don’t want to engage in hyperbole, but she could be right up there with Rob Ford and Anthony Weiner in the kind of Looney Tune category.
So Monday, we heard the very first words out of the mouth of our newly sworn-in Socialist city councilwoman.
“This city has made glittering fortunes for the super wealthy and the major corporations that dominate Seattle’s landscape. At the same time, the lives of working people, the unemployed, and the poor grow more difficult by the day,” Sawant began.
These corporations that our new Socialist City Councilwoman has so much contempt for: Microsoft, Amazon, Boeing, what have they provided for this region? Hundreds of thousands of jobs. She hates these companies that have provided. Sawant went on:
“The cost of housing skyrockets and education and health care become inaccessible. This is not unique to Seattle. Shamefully, in this, the richest company in human history, 50 million of our people, one in six, live in poverty.”
She came here from Mumbai. And she is so ashamed of America because one in six live in poverty. I would ask her: Have you ever been to India? Oh wait a sec, yeah she has. Well how are you so ashamed of the ideals that have made our nation a billion times better than the nation that you fled from?
“Around the world, billions do not have access to clean water and basic sanitation,” said Sawant, “and children die every day from malnutrition. This is the result of international capitalism.”
The people in the ghettos of Mumbai would love to be poor in America because there is just no comparison. And the reason why poor in America is rich in the country from which she comes is because of capitalism. The system that she despises is what has made our nation so much greater than the nation from which she fled. This is unbelievable.
“I wear the badge of Socialist with honor,” said Sawant.
Taken from Tuesday’s edition of The Dori Monson Show.
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