Letter to the Editor: Bush has turned his back on America
Issue date: 2/10/05 Section: OpEd
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Editor,
Two weeks ago America inaugurated a president who is now at war with America.
I'm writing this letter to Republicans and Christians. You have been lied to, you have been cheated, you have been used by a greedy, vicious and evil man, who himself is probably being manipulated by the rich and powerful, who do not have your best interests, or the interests of the nation, anywhere in their soul.
Four years ago George W. Bush inherited the largest budget surplus and the strongest economy of the past 50 years. At that time he already had plans to gut a century of hard won social and economic gains, but if in the year 2001 GWB had proposed a budget that slashed 150 programs centered on American farms, education, housing, public transportation, environmental protection and just plain social justice his own party would have turned their back on Bush. In January 2001 the Congressional Budget Office projected the surplus would reach $281 Billion in 2001, $881 Billion by 2011 and accumulate $5.6 Trillion by 2011. [CBO, Budget and Economic Outlook, 1/01] You can look this up for yourself at www.cbo.gov) Bush then passed his now infamous "tax cut for the rich" and in the year 2002 America posted its first deficit since 1997, which has grown to $477 Billion in 2004. This is the largest deficit in history, larger than the previous record of $290 Billion in 1992 by George the First. And now, by the CBO's own estimate, (I quote) "The deficit will exceed $400 Billion every year through 2014." [CBO, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities 12/1/04.]
Bush has trashed our economy. The dollar is down against the Euro, down against the Yen and all major Asian currencies, and at a record low against major markets. I hoard my Canadian quarters. Against this downturn Bush will now take revenge on those same 150 programs he dared not touch in 2001. Today in the news, as I now write this, 12 were killed and 60 injured in a suicide bombing, in a separate attack 15 more died. It sickens me to write this: In the two weeks preceding the Super Bowl over 50 Americans died in Iraq. Locally, Columbiana schools may close one, if not two, schools and face layoffs, Trumbull County will layoff patrol and support personnel and NASA Glenn Research willlayoff 700 of its 1200 employees. The WMD of our economy is GWB.
Anyone who is a loyal republican, and anyone who considers them self to be a good Christian, should be appalled by the actions of GWB. I call on republicans and Christians, not to "Bring it on" but to "Take it back." Take back that which was once yours, a proud political party of responsible leaders. America needs your action, red or blue, secular, of faith or atheist. Say no to the Bush Agenda. The job you save will be your own.
Richard Pirko
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Two weeks ago America inaugurated a president who is now at war with America.
I'm writing this letter to Republicans and Christians. You have been lied to, you have been cheated, you have been used by a greedy, vicious and evil man, who himself is probably being manipulated by the rich and powerful, who do not have your best interests, or the interests of the nation, anywhere in their soul.
Four years ago George W. Bush inherited the largest budget surplus and the strongest economy of the past 50 years. At that time he already had plans to gut a century of hard won social and economic gains, but if in the year 2001 GWB had proposed a budget that slashed 150 programs centered on American farms, education, housing, public transportation, environmental protection and just plain social justice his own party would have turned their back on Bush. In January 2001 the Congressional Budget Office projected the surplus would reach $281 Billion in 2001, $881 Billion by 2011 and accumulate $5.6 Trillion by 2011. [CBO, Budget and Economic Outlook, 1/01] You can look this up for yourself at www.cbo.gov) Bush then passed his now infamous "tax cut for the rich" and in the year 2002 America posted its first deficit since 1997, which has grown to $477 Billion in 2004. This is the largest deficit in history, larger than the previous record of $290 Billion in 1992 by George the First. And now, by the CBO's own estimate, (I quote) "The deficit will exceed $400 Billion every year through 2014." [CBO, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities 12/1/04.]
Bush has trashed our economy. The dollar is down against the Euro, down against the Yen and all major Asian currencies, and at a record low against major markets. I hoard my Canadian quarters. Against this downturn Bush will now take revenge on those same 150 programs he dared not touch in 2001. Today in the news, as I now write this, 12 were killed and 60 injured in a suicide bombing, in a separate attack 15 more died. It sickens me to write this: In the two weeks preceding the Super Bowl over 50 Americans died in Iraq. Locally, Columbiana schools may close one, if not two, schools and face layoffs, Trumbull County will layoff patrol and support personnel and NASA Glenn Research willlayoff 700 of its 1200 employees. The WMD of our economy is GWB.
Anyone who is a loyal republican, and anyone who considers them self to be a good Christian, should be appalled by the actions of GWB. I call on republicans and Christians, not to "Bring it on" but to "Take it back." Take back that which was once yours, a proud political party of responsible leaders. America needs your action, red or blue, secular, of faith or atheist. Say no to the Bush Agenda. The job you save will be your own.
Richard Pirko
Department of Physics and Astronomy