What a stark contrast between the Clinton years and these. During the 90s, the rich and the poor both got richer; now only those at the very top of the wage scale are getting to be richer -- and it's at the expense of the poor and the middle class, and in so many ways. Slashing the benefits for the people to whom it's the difference between being able to hang on financially during times of extreme lack due to illness, layoffs, and the other things that affect people who are not in the top 1% tax bracket. It can make the difference between losing one's home and living on the streets or being able to hang on to one's home. It makes a difference between eating or not eating -- to children as well as adults. Childcare's cuts prevent women who need to work from being able to afford to work. Healthcare being non-existent for the millions of Americans going without it has some extreme ramifications, obviously. I watched in utter disbelief as the first troops were being deployed to Iraq while Bush simultaneously slashed funds to Veterans Administrations to the bone -- which was the most highly telling move of this entire wretched black period Americans have been enduring for 6 years now at the hands of these criminals in power in America. That, of course, turned out to be not so bad compared to the rest of Bush's actions against the citizens of the United States of America.

One of the most atrocious of all moves is the $750 million dollars 'dedicated' to their twisted "healthy marriages" joke -- funds robbed from the very social services that are capable of keeping families healthy -- and together. So, what kind of great big old Texas sized cow pie is that?

The same kind that has Bush creating all kinds of hard times and poverty for those who can least afford it but he never mentions poverty -- except to the NAACP in the first speech he's made to that group in the entire 6 years of his illegitamate and illegally obtained power in this country. He thinks he's telling them something about drug addiction, poverty, and the imbalance in the number of blacks incarcerated for drug charges in this nation? Well, duh. He's mainly what has set them back further in poverty and all those other miseries that come with it -- and he offers to do nothing to improve their lives. When it comes to spending billions upon billions of tax dollars to kill people in Iraq he's right there and all for it; but, when it comes to doing something postitive that may improve the lives of those who have the least amount of opportunities -- as Barbara Bush so tactlessly and with such disgusting glee said of the Katrina victims as they were shipped like cattle to a football superdome in Texas
"They should be happy to be going there; after all, they are underpriveleged." Read: "&@*&@@* 'em; they're just a bunch of poor blacks and they ought to grovel at our superior white Bush feet gushing out appreciation for being hauled all around this country after my (idiot) son left them hanging on rooftops without food or water with hurricane waters and bodies of the dead swirling around their feet for a week before he lifted a finger -- and, he did nothing to help them even then -- nor did his buddy boy Brownie of that infamous and utterly heartless "Great job, Brownie"!! praise lavished by Bush onto his cronie who was not remotely qualified to do the job he'd been given in a clear act of nepotism -- or at least it's first cousin -- by the top idiot in the land because that's what Skull & Bones Society members do for each other throughout their meaningless, superficial, and ultimately valueless lives.

The bottom line is that Bush could care less about people or marriages being healthy or human life at all; much less about those clusters of cells that could have alleviated so much human suffering, death, and disease by his simply NOT vetoing stem cell research legislation. The fact is he does not care about anybody or anything but George W. Bush getting his way all the time, every time, everywhere no matter who dies or suffers because of it.

We are talking pure evil that is running America and with the support of that half of the population that are just a bunch of sheep-le bleating out the mantras they've been so well programmed to bleat --despite Bush's actions that so negatively impact many of their lives. That they aren't truly for America or any of the ideals it has stood for all these years -- up until Bush.

We who see Bush for what and who he really is, struggling against that tide of vomit that threatens to erupt from the very core of our beings every time we are forced to endure news of yet another atrocity committed by these hyenas running the show here, have become increasingly more frustrated and disgusted by not only the Bush bunch but maybe even more by the lame airheads supporting these nazis in every fresh atrocity as they apparently will until the bitter end.

The words to describe these dark days haven't even been invented yet; that's where our level of frustration is.

However, we will never give up nor will we ever give in to this venomous cloud that has settled over every mile of America in the wake of an evil, corrupt, and criminal group that weren't elected to the offices they occupy. It is determination and tenacity that will get America back and there is more than enough of that to go around. We'll see them go down, and they'll go down hard. As is fitting, considering the treason and the betrayal they have been committing with impunity ever since they weren't elected --either time.

Thank you, Marlene, for your most appropriate words considering the circumstances of the country and the would-be leadership at the higher levels of government. I have nothing to add other than, Bravo! You are not alone. My dear brother recently passed, but he explained to me one time that good always prevails over evil in the end. Always.