God help America.
We have four more long years with President Bush and his moral majority followers.
Dr. Bob Jones III, president of Bob Jones University, in a letter to President Bush that was read on the television show “Meet the Press,” said, “In your re-election, God has graciously granted America – though she doesn’t deserve it – a reprieve from the agenda of paganism. You have been given a mandate. We the people expect your voice to be like the clear and certain sound of a trumpet. Because you seek the Lord daily, we who know the Lord will follow that kind of voice eagerly.”
Jones basically called the Democrats’ agenda one of paganism. Thousands of soldiers dying and being injured in Iraq must be considered a holy sacrifice then, if the Democrats’ agenda is paganism.
President Bush is no holy man, as some of his ignorant moral majority followers portray him to be. If anything, Bush is a slave to big business.
It is sad when Bush’s own ex-officials are calling his foreign policies “ideological and callously indifferent,” according to a British Broadcasting Company article on their Web site.
“Because of the Pollyann-ish assumptions that were made by the administration going in there, that bouquets would be thrown at us and so forth, we were totally unprepared for the post-combat operation,” said Gen. Merrill McPeak, former chief of staff of the U.S. Air Force, who was quoted in the BBC article.
The Patriot Act, which was passed under Bush’s first term, takes away many of our civil liberties. Authorities can now search anyone’s house without a warrant under the premise of national security.
And now his so called “tax cuts” that he claims helped middle class Americans.
A non-partisan organization, The Congressional Budget Office conducted a study, reported in The Washington Post on August 13, 2004, that said that the “wealthiest 20 percent, whose incomes averaged $182,700 in 2001, saw their share of federal taxes drop from 64.4 percent of total tax payments in 2001 to 63.5 percent this year.”
“The top 1 percent, earning $1.1 million, saw their share fall to 20.1 percent of the total, from 22.2 percent.
The article also says that, “taxpayers with incomes from around $51,500 to around $75,600 saw their share of federal tax payments increase. Households earning around $75,600 saw their tax burden jump the most, from 18.7 percent of all taxes to 19.5 percent.Bush says his tax cuts help the middle class, but they only help the wealthiest people in America.
The environment is also one of Bush’s weak points.
Republicans are criticizing Bush on his stance on the environment. Russell Train, a Republican, and EPA second chief under Nixon and Ford, is quoted in The Boston Globe saying, “It’s almost as if the motto of the administration in power today in Washington is not environmental protection, but polluter protection.” I suppose this is God’s will too, for Bush to drill for oil in all the environmentally sound places in the United States and make our air and water more polluted.
If people think Bush is so holy, then maybe Jesus must be in favor of an oil well on every block, soldiers dying in Iraq and tax cuts for the wealthy.