I Agree with George W. Bush

"The essence of civilization is that the strong have a duty to protect the weak..."

-George W. Bush
March 31, 2005

Yes, Mr. Bush.

That is why you don't persist in giving huge tax cuts to the rich at the expense of the poor and middle class, especially when you have bankrupted the nation.

That is why you don't slash Medicaid to pay for the tax cuts for the rich.

That is why you don't single-mindedly set out to destroy Social Security, the program that is the difference between a dignified old age and poverty for millions of older Amercians, and do it by lying, and deceit, and sleazy huckstering.

That is why you don't slash programs like Head Start which exist to help the weakest among us have a better life.

That is why you don't give everything and more to the corporate interests of the country and the world at the expense of the people who cannot possibly stand up to their monetary and therefore, political might.

That is why you don't rape the environment for your corporate cronies at the expense of people all over the world.

That is why you don't protect the pharmaceutical giants, your patrons, at the expense of the nation's elderly and sick.

That is why you don't keep the victims of your corporate wet nurses from being able to sue for the death and maiming and heartache that your corporate puppetmasters wreak.

That is why you don't doom the victims of your credit card pushing sugar daddies who turn America's weak and disadvantaged, the ill and unemployed, into indentured servants for life by barring them from the protection of bankruptcy.

That is why you don't protect your Svengali Cheyney's Halliburton, for whom Cheyney in his wisdom bought massive asbestos liability when he ran that company, from having to make whole the victims of asbestos and their families.

That is why you don't prevent our great medical researchers and technologists from doing everything and anything to find cures for the suffering of millions of people so that you can pander to your theocratic zealot voter base, whom you harm by the policies of your true agenda, naivly empowered by those religious fanatics , in order to effect the enrichment of your cronies.

Yes, Mr. Bush, I agree that the essence of civilization is that the strong have a duty to protect the weak. So step forward, Mr. Bush, and for once, do the right thing for weak, the powerless, whom you have given the back of your hand. You have brought shame to our once-great civilization.

You still have time to take your own words to heart.