but the ballooning deficit created by the war in Iraq will keep the average Joe in debt for years and years to come, while the corporate elite who profit from wars as well as the billions of dollars in interest paid on the debt will only get richer.

The who's who of Lawrence county will be there
Sounds like there are going to be some of those corporate elite in attendance where you will be speaking... So I don't know how well that tact will work. But I'm the guy who firmly believes that the time for talk is just about gone... This has gone a tad too far to be remedied even by the most moving of speeches (IMO). I'm pretty sure this is just going to play out like it will, and we can just pick up the pieces when the next bad thing happens.