I would like to add my voice to those who are concerned more by the continuing outrageous flow of the people’s wealth through taxation, into the pockets of a corrupt small group of elites who control redistribution of this wealth through contracts with corporations in which they have interests — most publicly, weapons and reconstruction companies at work following our policies creating devastation here and abroad.

These transactions are weakening our economy, not to mention our ability to focus our resources and attention on issues determining the very future of mankind. The question of port management is an issue of keeping the means we have of generating legitimate profit in our own hands rather than decreasing the already shrinking opportunities for our own companies to provide goods and services.

Daily revelations of broad and deep governmental corruption, make action increasingly urgent. Please start here and now by opposing the sale of an important American business opportunity. Then take steps to begin the break-up of the symbiotic relationship between politics and corporate interests by pushing for government financed elections which will cut one leg out from under corrupt government.

Karen Murphy

Langley