Hoping you'll forget other tax dollar uses
Your president, along with conservative counterparts in Congress, has reached a new low. And, he and his buddies are hoping the American public is just slow enough to swallow the rhetoric. If that offends anyone, well, think about what your president is asking you to accept.
President Bush and a few Republican senators in lock-step made comments about the American public being outraged over a bill going through Congress that would authorize $35 billion more a year for health care assistance to uninsured and underinsured families.
President Bush assured the American public that he wasn't going to let these spend-crazy Democrats get their way. He and the senators made sure to use the phrase "your taxpayer dollars" as often as possible.
So, ask yourself, American public, what your president and his compatriots are saying.
They tell you they must have $9 billion a month for your sons and daughters to take a chance of getting killed in Iraq. Your sons and daughters are taking this risk for: the betterment of the folks in the oil companies; the betterment of Vice President Cheney's Halliburton associates; the growth of the world's largest private army and mercenary training company Blackwater; and the overall growth of the military-industrial complex that President Eisenhower warned about.
They say they're going to protect us by making sure your sons and daughters don't have health insurance because you don't want them to have it at the cost of your tax-payer dollars. They know you'd rather have your taxpayer dollars spent on sending your sons and daughters to a war based on deception rather than spent to provide health insurance for them and their families.
They are hoping you're gullible enough to forget that the war in Iraq, the impending war with Iran, the growth of Blackwater, the growth of the military-industrial complex and other obscenities are also funded by your tax-payer dollars.
Edward J. Herdrich
Elgin