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Wednesday, April 4, 2012

NOW they're mad?

Let's get this straight... You didn't get mad when Bush took us into a needless, unnecessary, wreckless, arbitrary war. You didn't get mad when we spent over 800 billion--and counting--on an illegal war. You didn't get mad when Bush borrowed more money from foreign sources than the previous 42 Presidents combined. You didn't get mad when the Bush administration flew over 10 billion dollars in cash to Iraq, by the planeload, only to have it disappear. You didn't get mad when Bush embraced trade and outsourcing policies that shipped 6 million American jobs out of the country, all the while giving corporations and the wealthy tax breaks, too, to do it. You didn't get mad when the Bush administration didn't catch Osama Bin Laden. You didn't get mad when Bush rang up 10 trillion dollars in combined budget and current account deficits. You didn't get mad when you saw the horrible conditions at Walter Reed Army Hospital. You didn't get mad when we let a major US city, New Orleans, drown. You didn't get mad when we gave people who had more money than they could spend--the richest 1% of us--over a trillion dollars in tax breaks. You didn't get mad with the worst 8 years of job creations in several decades. You didn't get mad when over 200,000 US citizens lost their lives because they had no health insurance. You didn't get mad when lack of oversight and regulations from the Bush Administration caused US citizens to lose 12 trillion dollars in investments, retirement, and home values in the Wall Street crash. You finally got mad when a black man was elected President, and decided that people in America deserved the right to see a doctor if they are sick? Yes, illegal wars, lies, corruption, torture, job losses by the millions, stealing your tax dollars to make the rich richer, and the worst economic disaster since 1929 are all okay with you, but helping fellow Americans who are sick... Oh, Hell no! You're not going to take us back without a fight --From Barbara Phillippi via Seniors for a Democratic Society

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