It doesn't make much sense for me to try to add anything here. But I feel I must speak out. I don't think it's about the] person who I don't really know or care to much. It's about the policies as Kendall has said. As to the cabinet of the Bush Administration, Al Franken has called them "Chickenhawks". That is, it's easier to make a war policy than to participate in it. It's the old cliche of "Let's fight, I'll hold your coat." War is a terrible, horrible and awful thing and it doesn't offer any solutions to how people can live together in peace and justice. There are those who will get rich from war because that's justified in their minds. I'm thinking of the infamous "Golden Triangle" of the Pentagon and the private corporate sector. This would include the Bush Administration's current cabinet. These men are dangerous for the country because they are immoral. They are making money from the deaths of innocent Iraqi women and children. They are making sure that the working people of this country will not see the benefits of their labor. They can count themselves amoung the wealthy in the "class war". This "war" was created by the Bush Administration and Reagan and Bush Senior. There are people who are working at manual labor jobs who are trapped in them because there are no places to retrain since money hasn't been allocated for them to do so. The destruction of the welfare system has meant that poor hardworking Americans don't have decent paying jobs and can't raise their kids on the money they make and the time they can spend with their families is limited since they work long, hard hours for little money....a disgraceful devaluing on the minimum wage in the "richest country in the world." The public school system is being gutted by Bush and his cronies. Only the wealthy will be able to receive a decent education. This is anti-American. Anti-democratic. If this happens, then bin Laden and Saddam have beaten us. We need a president who is responsive to the needs of Americans and not a spokesperson for Haliburton, Harken, Enron, and the gutting of the Texas and American educational system. A word about Libertarians. We need a strong, moral federal government to protect us against the selfish, self-serving Libertarian movement who would cut off the necessary funding for deserving African-Americans, Hispanic and poor isolated others in the citified ghettos of the US. Their representative on talk radio spews his vitriol daily. Neil Boortz. A bully who allows no contradictions to his madness. If people don't want to pay taxes for educating those who don't have a chance in this country, or helping them find decent employment, then bin Laden and Saddam and Bush have won. End of rant but I'm a folkie who has strong feelings about this kind of thing and probably should keep my mouth shut but it's just too painful not to. Frank Hamilton
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