Mokhiber
uye Robert Weissman
Ari
Fleischer murume akanaka. Anofarira baseball. Tinoda baseball. Ndokupi
kufanana kunopera.
Fleischer ndiye achangoburwa mumutsara wakareba usina kuputsika wevanyori venhau ve
vatungamiri vemakambani eUnited States.
We
yakasarudza nguva pfupi yadarika kuyedza ruzivo rwaAri rwemashandiro ehurumende yemubatanidzwa.
Isu tinopa bvunzo nekupinda zuva nezuva White House Press Briefing uye nekubvunza
Ari mibvunzo. Tasvika pavashanu pari zvino, uye tinotarisira kuzopinda mune inotevera
100 kana zvakadaro. Matanda edu anononoka, uye akadzika pakati chaipo.
Last
vhiki, takabvunza Ari kana akaona iyo Bill Moyers PBS yakakosha pamakemikari
industry. Haana kuzviona.
On
PBS, Moyers anopomera kuti indasitiri yemakemikari mumakore makumi maviri apfuura
aiziva kuti yakanga ichiisa vashandi kumakemikari ane ngozi uye somuuyo aya
vashandi vakafa. Isu takaratidza kuti kune mhosva muItaly mune a
nyaya yakafanana. Mhosva dzekuuraya munhu dzakaunzwa kune vakuru vemakemikari makumi matatu nerimwe
yekufumura vashandi kumakemikari mamwe chete aya.
So
Ari, angave Mutungamiri Bush kutsigira kuurayiwa kwevanhu vachipokana nemakemikari
vatungamiri munyika ino nokuda kwemaitiro akadaro?
"Iyo haisi nyaya yandakurukura naPresident," Ari anodaro. "Uye ini handidi
kutaura panoratidza kuti handina kuona."
Zvakanaka
Ari, pane chirevo chakaburitswa neCentre for Public Integrity (www.public-i.org)
kuti danho reMutungamiriri weNyika pamusoro pekubuda kwecarbon dioxide rakafambiswa
Mutungamiriri wezvemitemo, Nicholas Calio. Muna 1997, femu yeCalio yakabhadharwa
$420,000 yekubiridzira panyaya iyi neTenneco Automotive, inova imwe ye
makambani makuru emagetsi emagetsi emagetsi munyika. Takanga tichinetseka kana
Mutungamiriri ari kunetsekana nekukura kuri kuita veruzhinji maonero emakambani anorwira kodzero dzevanhu
kuuya muWhite House nekuita sarudzo dzeveruzhinji pazvinhu zvavari
vakabhadharwa kuti vakumbire nzvimbo mwedzi mishoma yapfuura?
"The
Mutungamiri anoita zvisarudzo zvake pane zvakakodzera, anoita sarudzo dzake pane zvaanoda
anotenda kuti zviri mukuda kwenyika,โ anodaro Ari. Akarwisa mabhizimisi makuru
zororo remitero, rangarira?
sei
nezve Ari uyu? USA Today inofambisa chinyorwa chine musoro unoti "More Public Drilling? Let's
Unganidza Mabhiri Kutanga." (Kubvumbi 6, 2001) Inoti Mutungamiriri akurudzira
kuchera oiri kwakawanda munzvimbo dzevanhu, asi pane nhoroondo yemafuta makuru aya
makambani asiri kubhadhara zvikwereti. Saka, mumakore mashoma apfuura Shell Oiri
yakabhadhara $110 mamiriyoni muzvirango, Chevron $95 mamiriyoni, ExxonMobil $52 mamiriyoni.
Chinyorwa chinoti "ngatiunganidze kubva kumakambani emafuta tisati tavhura
kuwedzera kuchera." Mutungamiriri anobvuma here?
Ari
zvachose dodges mubvunzo, uye anotanga kutaura pamusoro cabinet mwero wongororo kuva
inotungamirwa neMutevedzeri weMutungamiri Cheney "kutora matanho anodiwa kuchengetedza
Kupihwa kweAmerica simba, kunyanya apo takananga mumwaka wekufamba
chirimo."
mira
chechipiri, Ari, ko makambani emafuta ari kubvarura hurumende? (Ari
inoenderera mberi.)
Ari,
President vataura kuti tichabvisa mutero werufu "kuchengeta
mapurazi mumhuri.โ Nezuro, The New York Times, papeji yokutanga, yakanyora
nyaya, ichitora nyanzvi dzemitero dzichiti hadzina kumbowana purazi rakarasika nekuda kwe
mitero yedzimba. Kunyangwe iyo American Farm Bureau Federation, inotsigira kubviswa kwe
mutero weimba, vanoti havakwanise kutaura kana imwe muenzaniso wepurazi rakarasika
nekuda kwemitero yedzimba. Saka President vairevei pavakati tisu
kuzobvisa mutero werufu kuti uchengete mapurazi mumhuri?
โChaizvoizvo, chimwe chinokonzeresa kuti varimi vapinde munhamo
kuita kuti purazi rirambe riri mumaoko emhuri," Fleischer anodaro.
Chaizvoizvo, maererano neTimes, varimi vanoona kunzvenga mutero weimba kuri nyore.
Chete vapfumi vaviri muzana vevaAmerica vanokwereta mutero wedzimba - imhaka yekuti
mutero weimba haushandiswe pane yekutanga $1.35 miriyoni yepfuma yevakaroorana. Uye a
vaviri vepapurazi vanogona kupfuudza $4.1 miriyoni isina mutero, chero bedzi vagari venhaka vachienderera mberi
kurima kwemakore gumi, maererano neThe Times.
kubva
izvo zvakange zvisiri kufamba zvakanaka, takasarudza kuwedzera kubvunza uye
bvunza mubvunzo pamusoro pehuzivi hwezvematongerwo enyika hwaPresident Bush.
Ari,
mwedzi mishoma yapfuura, magazini yeBusiness Week yakaita sarudzo yakawana izvozvo
zvikamu zvitatu kubva muzvina zvevanhu vekuAmerica vanotenda kuti "bhizinesi rakawedzera zvakanyanya
simba pamusoro pehupenyu hwavo." Uye mune chinyorwa, Bhizinesi Vhiki rakadaidzira
makambani kuti "abude mune zvematongerwo enyika."
Izvozvo
Mutungamiri anobvumirana nezvikamu zvitatu kubva muzvina zvevanhu vekuAmerica kuti "bhizinesi
vakawana simba rakawandisa pamusoro pehupenyu hwavo" uye nechinyorwa icho ivo
anofanira "kubuda mune zvematongerwo enyika"?
Ari
anosvetuka pamusoro pemubvunzo uye anotumira izvi zvese chinangwa chakaiswa pasi: "Mutungamiri
anotenda kuti munyika ino isu tese tiri muhupfumi hwedu pamwe chete. Ndayeuchidzwa
chirevo chekare chekuti haugone kuve wevashandi kana uchipesana nevashandirwi."
Next
Mubvunzo.
Russell Mokhiber mupepeti weWashington, DC-based Corporate Crime
Reporter. Robert Weissman mupepeti weWashington, D.C.-based
Multinational Monitor. Ivo vanyori vanyori veCorporate Predators: The Hunt
yeMegaProfits uye Kurwiswa kweDemocracy (Monroe, Maine: Common Courage
Press, 1999).