Life under GWB

Originally Posted by Clodfobble

Mari, the question wasn't "we," the question was "my." How has your life been directly affected by the Bush administration?

My life is directly affected by the quality of the air I breathe and the water I drink. My life is directly affected by my ability to go to the beautiful places "where the wild things are" to replenish my soul. My life is directly affected when I must comfort a friend whose husband has orders for Iraq in a couple of weeks. My life is directly affected when my rights of freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, and the right to due process are infringed upon. My life is directly affected when I see my fellow countrymen trapped without food or water or sanitation or medical care for 6 fucking days, and I turn off the TV feeling heartsick and powerless. My life is directly affected when the child who might have grown up to be a scientist who comes up with a cure for my fatal illness, instead recieves a sub quality education, sub standard medical care and ends up working all his days as a janitor as a result. My life is directly affected when I see a man with a sign reading "Homeless Vet, please help!"

We are all interconnected. We are all Americans. What happens to the least of us, happens also to me. "Ask not for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee."

[Tonchi]

...And then there is the dirty little secret hiding in the back closet, which Jr. has ignored more than anybody since the Civil Rights "revolution", namely that those have-nots and know-nots whose numbers are growing daily because of his policies or the lack thereof, will be coming out to get us who are secure now at some unknown future. If we don't take care of these people NOW, we will sure as hell be seeing them later. Either in the jails or in the streets, these people will come back to haunt us. That is US, not Jr. and his elitists, they will have bunkers and machine guns around their properties and their bank accounts. It is the rest of us who will pay for these horrible choices of his, both physically and financially. And THAT is going to change the quality of life for millions of us, including plenty of folks who used to never see anything wrong when they looked around them.