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Isn’t it enough yet? What will be the reason for staying next week? Does anyone remember just how many reasons we’ve had so far? I don’t recall any that were worth the death of the young man memorialized above, let alone all the thousands of others since then. Ya, Basta!!!! Enough!!!!

Ok, now I’m really confused. I just heard a story on one of those quasi-news shows that simply blew me away. It seems a father in Texas, a staunch Republican, refuses to pay for his only son’s college education because - he’s become a Democrat! What the……? This is his son, for Go’ds sake, no matter what his political beliefs, and I thought Republicans were the ones who really, really cared about their kids and their education. You know, we Democrats could care less, preferring our kids be stupid and uneducated, and all that.

Now, I’ve always known that’s a load of horse hockey, since my own kids - good Democrats all - are well educated, and I helped get them that way. But seeing this story only reinforced the knowledge that all parents care about their kids, no matter who they vote for. Well, most of us do, anyway. This jerk is just an aberration, a freak of nature. And that’s even for a Republican.

Is he kidding? What are they having now? One faction is fighting against another, with death and destruction resulting, and if that’s not what constitutes a civil war, I don’t know what would. George W. Bush has managed to take a country that was at peace, although led by a heartless tyrant, and dragged it through a war they never wanted. Now, to top it all off, he has managed to set loose the long-standing hatreds between the three main groups in Iraq and yes, George, they are in the midst of a civil war, thanks to you.

I know some of you will be reading this, sputtering all over yourselves with indignation at my interpretation of the facts I see before me, but I have only one thing to say in response: if this isn’t the beginning stages of a civil war, just what is it? And whatever it is, how do we get it to stop before these people have to suffer any more than they already have? Oh, yeah. WE CAN’T!!!!

One reason is that our fearless leader refuses to see what he has truly wrought with his head-on race to a war there was no need for in the first place, and another is that once the hatred has been released, with no one around to step in and slap all sides back down, there simply is no stopping it. Not until one side manages to whittle the other sides down to the point they can’t continue fighting to protect themselves, anyway. Dear Lord God, what have we done?

Oh, it wasn’t me that did it. I never wanted this stupid war in the first place, since there was no need for it, as I already said. No, Georgie Boy started it, and now he’s trying really hard to make us all believe it’s all working out great, or soon will, but for those of us with eyes, and brains to think freely with, it is all too obvious that what we have actually done is to have “loosed the wind”, and we can do nothing now but reap the whirlwind. Oh, and try to find a safe place to hide, because we have three more years of this idiot’s brainless schemes to try to survive. God help us all!

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I know this is a few days late, but sometimes it takes a while for the insanity of it all to build up enough so I just have to speak out. I have to admit, when I first read where Bush told the world that his agreement with India would protect jobs, I laughed my rearend off. How funny was that, anyway? I mean, just who is it that is getting the biggest part of America’s jobs nowadays, anyway? The Indians, of course!

Call for tech help with your computer, and while the girl answering tells you her name is Susan, the accent tells you it’s more than likely Susarwa or something like that. Todd is really Tangiko, or something like that. You spend a half hour or more trying to decipher exactly what they are saying to you, and sad to say, more often than not you haven’t a clue. Now, honestly, does anyone think there are no Americans who could answer the phone and tell you what to do to “fix” your misbehaving computer in language you don’t have to guess at in an attempt to understand them? Of course there are!

So, when George W. Bush, President of the United States, stands in India beside the Indian Prime Minister, and says the agreement he just made with the man will protect jobs, just whose job is he speaking of? Yours? Mine? I doubt it very much. Nope, he’s protecting “Susan” and “Todd’s” jobs, of course. Way to think about your fellow countrymen, Mr. President.

In this time of uncertainty, with some economic indicators pointing up and more down, when we look around us and wonder just where the upward movement is happening at, do we really want to hear that our President is working hard to make sure American companies that used to hire us can now hire foreign workers instead, and get even richer doing so? And by the way, when did we become so ignorant that we let “Them” tell us that if only we weren’t so greedy the jobs would still be here? I simply can’t understand that reasoning.

What is so bad about wanting a living wage for the work we do? Or having medical insurance to help when we or our family get sick or injured? Or having disability insurance in case we can’t work for a while? Why is that such a bad thing? Why is that seen as greed when the bosses use the money that could help workers for another new house in another expensive vacation resort, or another expensive car for their collections. Maybe more furs and diamonds for their wives and mistresses, and larger allowances for their kids to blow on drugs, alcohol, and wild times? How is that more important than the health and welfare of the workers that enable them to have the grand lifestyles they do?

When workers discovered strikes, it was a great time in America for the little guy. The bosses realized that if the workers were unhappy, they wouldn’t work, and if they didn’t work, the product didn’t get made, and if it wasn’t made, they couldn’t sell it and their income then dropped. Now, if workers aren’t happy with slave wages, etc, and decide to object in any way, the company simply closes the American factory and moves it to a foreign country, where overhead is cheap, labor is cheaper, and they can keep more of the profits for their own selfish, greedy selves. And they’ve convinced us that’s a good thing!

I tell you, it’s a sin the way workers in America are treated today, and if you don’t believe me, look it up in the Bible. God said a boss should pay his workers a good wage for the work they do. Try Malachi 3:5, or James 5: 1 - 6, for instance. The latter includes a warning for bosses who don’t pay their workers well, and they will pay later for their avarice today. But as satisfying as that sounds, it doesn’t put food on the table of the workers who are doing their jobs for next to nothing, nor buy medicine their kids need when they get sick.

So, excuse me if I’m not as excited about Bush’s latest proclamation as some might think I should be. People out here in the real world - the not-so-lucky underclass world of those who work their fingers to the bone for wages that won’t pay the rent, keep the utilities on, buy the food their families need to grow and stay healthy, and allow doctor visits when needed - aren’t real impressed by the fact more Indians will be working and getting what is considered in their world rich, thanks to his agreement. You want the American worker happy? Do something that would assure them of at least the lifestyle their parents and grandparents had in the Fifties and Sixties, when Dad could go to work, Mom could stay home with the kids, and they could afford to buy a new house, a good car, and have three square meals a day, plus a vacation each summer and visits to the doctor and dentist when needed. Now, that would be something worth crowing about.

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