Letters to the Editor
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bad guys finish first
Bush will go off to his fat retirement in Texas and Connecticut, and Cheney will go off to *his* fat retirement in his mansion on the sea in Maryland, and *neither* of these guys will face the least punishment for putting us in terrible danger, putting us into terrible debt, selling off large chunks of the country to their corporate buddies, and, in general, laying waste to the population they pledged to serve.
Can you say declining fossil-fuels, with no Plan B?
Can you say a completely dysfunctional passenger rail system? A system we will need really desperately in the years to come.
Can you say no pressure on the auto industry to improve their products?
Can you say a broken health-care system, sold to the highest bidders who make obscene profits on the backs of the healthy and dismiss the sick to their doom?
Can you say incompetent HMOs who have bought political protection from their incompetence?
Can you say climate-change?
Can you say a grotesquely unfair tax-system?
Can you say a ruined military?
Can you say a GOP that would rather lie and cheat than actually behave like a responsible political party? A party deliberately turned frankly fascist by a bunch of opportunists without scruple?
Can you say a Federal Government corrupted, demoralized, and ruined by one political-hack appointment after another, in key managerial positions?
Can you say a Supreme Court that will now be interested only in supporting corporate interests instead of the people's interests?
An environment polluted and ruined by corporate interests?
And the worst, the VERY worst: the money we spent in Iraq, slaughtering civilians and putting our soldiers in mortal danger for no good reason, could have been spent to secure ALL nuclear fuel and weapons in Russia and elsewhere, and to secure our borders against the inevitable nuke someone will be trying to smuggle into a major american city, and light up. When that happens, you can blame two people: Bush, and Cheney. They've known of the danger for a long time, and have done almost nothing meaningful to deal with it. And now, it may well be too late to do much of anything.
Bush and Cheney have eithe initiated, or intensified, each of these disasters...and that's just a list off the top of my head..I didn't even mention the Middle East...not to mention the ruination of our diplomacy and credibility around the world.
Bush and Cheney have been like vengeful 4-year-olds in a shop full of ming china. They've destroyed the place, and now get to go home for ice-cream.
And things may get much, MUCH worse because of their savage opportunism and greed, their utter lack of any scruple.
In fact, they'll get REWARDED with fat pensions, consulting fees, speaking fees, and the adulation of the idiot-30-percenters who would buy a bridge in Brooklyn if one was offered to them.
Our system doesn't work right, if these men can get off scott free and waltz into a rich, easy retirement. A system in which that can happen, is a system that isn't working.