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According to today's edition of the New York Times, next week Bush will ask Congress to squeeze more than $70 billion in savings from Medicare and Medicaid over the next 5 years.
Meanwhile, the American government, without the support of the people it is supposed to represent, is spending nearly $8 billion per month in Iraq.
Meanwhile, ExxonMobil posts the largest corporate profits in history. I'm all for corporate profits. After all, I'm sure that my 401K depends on corporate profits for some part of my future financial security. However, I am not for unregulated corporate profits, corporate tax loopholes, and the ongoing influence of the American corporation on the economic, and political, policies of the nation.
Meanwhile, 90% of the nation's wealth is controlled by 1% of the population, compensation for corporate executives is at unprecedented levels compared to the wages of the working middle and lower classes.
Meanwhile, Bush has convinced Congress to pass tax cuts that, in the end, don't really benefit those who are truly in need. And tax cuts have never provided benefit to the poorest Americans; only an increase in real wages, without a corresponding increase in real costs, will benefit those who need it most.
Meanwhile, this administration has done its best to set environmental causes back at least fifty years, and replaces decisions based on scientific evidence with "faith-based" initiatives.
Meanwhile, Bush tries his best to convince the American people that terrorist organizations around the globe "hate us for our freedom." Personally, I think the terrorists hate us for our foreign policies - policies with which America continues to rape and pillage the natural resources of the world.
Meanwhile, "we're fighting them there so we don't have to fight them here." We must not be winning the fight, and Bush Company must not be keeping us safe, or making us feel safer - look at this past week's hysterical response to an advertising campaign in Boston.
Meanwhile, our civil liberties continue to be effectively eroded by our own government, while the executive branch usurps power from Congress at every turn.
Meanwhile, Shell Oil informs me that my PO Box address is insufficient; that the Patriot Act requires that they have a physical address for all cardholders using a PO Box. Apparently, Bush and friends have given themselves the authority to read my mail, perhaps Shell should ask them for my physical address.
I'm a natural born US citizen, a Methodist by choice, employed by an American corporation, enjoying with my wife a combined income of just under $100K, and never have I felt less secure, less sure of my future or the future of the nation, and been more concerned about the continued attempts to keep the poor poor, and how, at every turn, the government appears to seek to erode what little remains of the American middle class.
We appear to be living in some sort of nightmare where Bush employs the tactics of Stalin, while America itself bears a frightening resemblance to Nazi Germany on the eve of the invasion of Poland.
It is time to put an end to this administration. My lifelong devotion to the Republican party, and its ideals, ended when the Congress began an unwarranted impeachment of a President who lied about having sex. It is unconscionable to allow a president who has failed at every turn to uphold the constitution he is sworn to protect to remain in office. This administration hasn't lied to the American people about having sex, it has lied to the American people, and lied repeatedly, about the justification for preemptive war, about making us safer, about divulging the identity of a CIA operative for purely political gain, and surely the list goes on, and on, and on.
Sinclair Lewis was right - when fascism came to America, it was wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross. The bumper sticker I read yesterday "If you want to live in a country run by religion, move to Iran" says it all. I love my country, I love my God, but more than that, I love the constitutional separation of church and state.
Just as fascism has come to America, so will the October Revolution if this administration is allowed to continue unchecked. Do what is right for the American people, impeach this president, and his administration, and restore transparency and dignity to the government, and with it, hope to the American people.
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