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America can't survive another GOP president. The morning after George Bush was elected president in November 2000, newspaper headline in europe carried the common theme, "Are Americans That Dumb?"
The implications was that had the voter done his homework. there is no way Bush would have been elected. After all, Bush graduated from Yale University near the bottom of his class and received a master's degree in business administration. He went into private business and went bankrupt three times.
As governor of Texas, he bankrupted the state in six years and he and a Republican Congress have suceeded in bankrupting this nation He has increased the size of government by 40 percent and has spent more money and created the largest deficit in history-more than all 42 other presidents combined.
Bush is correct in stating"We are not in recession."We are on the brink of an economic meltdown that will rival the Great Depression. The Bush administration is desperately trying to hold off the eventual financial collapse until after the election in the fall. What we have is Herbert Hoover sitting in the White House with his clone for president, John McCain, carrying a bigger shovel to dig us deeper in debt with the promise of more wars, more tax cuts for the weathy and corporations.
With high gas prices, soaring food costs and skyrocking energy costs, the uninformed voter is being manipulated to focus more about wheather a presidential candidate wears a American flag in his lapel. Or let's hold him responsible for what his pastor says. Or even though he was only 8 years when some guy he knows was blowing up federal buidings, let's tie them both together.
In this life you usually get what you deserve, whether it is the job you have or the partner you have chosen in marriage or the president you elect. The Americaqn voter are being challenged today, and unless they rise above their ignorance, hypocrisy and prejudice, they deserve another Republican in the White House. Don Davis Crown Point
In a previous letter, Vallerie McGill Grant made an especially important about being reasonable and fair. Every nation should halt nuclear weapons. It's about the Bush administraion's hounding of North Korea and Iran not to gain nuclear capability. She said those countries should not have nuclear weapons, but here's the critical point of her disarmament quest: Why can the United States and six other nations maintain their nuclear arsenals, then demand that North Korea and Iran should not?. It makes no sense, that the rest of the world sees this a blatant hypocrisy.
President Bush has called these two countries as "Evil and resently branded Iran as a"Rogue state" meaning isolated, aberrant, dangererous and uncontrollable. I question Bush's name calling, as I have not seen nor heard any evidence of them invading another country-as Bush unilaterally has done.
The least of the United States could do is to expand this dispute into a worldwide nuclear disarmament plan, whereby every country disarms.
It is well-put in Brian McLaren's book,"Everything Must Change," that the richest countries of this world are collectively addicted to war, domination, violence and material excess. This is just one of the many causes of human suffering, and it's about time we citizens wake up from a safe little world and act as the Constitution says we can, by voting and voicing our opinions. That is if you care American citizens. John Anderson Kouts
Only unions can save middle-class America.
I've been reading all the articles on how we're going to vote for change. That's a good thing, because the United states and working-class America wouldn't survive another for four to eight years of Republicans running our government.
Looking back over the past eight years, I can only hope the middle class has learned a very costly lesson.
No matter which labor-frfiendly candidate gets in, they won't be able to help the working class until we start helping ourselves. No one is going to hand us anything. We're going to have to fight to get back all the benefits we let them take away. that can only be done by standing together, like we used to Camaraderie.
One voice will never be heard in Washington . Once again we have to unite. As businesses are doing when they join their chambers of commerce, or doctors and lawyers do with their medical and bar associations.
We can no longer sit on our behinds and think corporate America is going to share its wealth, because we've worked long hard hours to make it rich.
As I hope you have noticed. corporate America with the help of our government in its pockets, has all but destroyed working-class Americans.
There is no trickle down for the working class from foreign trade agreements. The only good thing about them is the fact that all corporations have become so rich they now hold our lives in the balance by owning our government. Trade agreements must changed.
If the new president starts to reverse all the damage done to the working class over the past eight years, we must start also start helping ourselves-organize, form unions and stand united.
If we don't get off our bottoms and start doing and thinking for ourselves, there'll be no middle-class America. We have a secong chance, let's make it work.
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