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They espouse family values, marriage ammendments, display of ten commandments on the public square, while they give corporate tax breaks, deregulate electricity, promote monopolies, privatize social security, send Oklahoma jobs overseas, and concentrate wealth at the top. They deny 44 million Americans access to affordable healthcare, sell our senior citizens out to the big drug companies, and cut federal funding to schools unless they release our childrens' names to military recruiters under the No Child Left Behind Act.
Oklahoma values don't include torture, wars for profit, imprisonment without due process, shifting of tax burden from the fat cats to the middle class, and sending jobs overseas. Republicans manipulate the voter with talk of family values and religion, but once in office, corporate profit is what drives their actions and their legislative agenda.
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