America used to practice a democracy that was the envy of the rest of the world. One of its components was a free enterprise system that produced and benefited a large middle class. While it took 300 years to nurture this breathtaking experiment, it has taken the Bush administration a mere 6 1/4 years to trash it.
While sacrificing our nation's blood and treasure in the name of democracy in Iraq, Bush has trampled the Constitution here at home. It is, after all, as he said himself, "just a piece of paper."
What we have now in this country is something called "authorative free enterprise" or what I prefer to call "conspiratorial capitalism." The corporate elite and the most powerful members of our elected government are in collusion to separate the once proud middle class from its financial assets. By outsourcing the best jobs to China and India and "insourcing" cheap illegal labor across our southern border, by becoming the greatest debtor nation in the history of the world, by debasing the U.S. dollar and then lying about the rampant inflation that has been taking place for years (the greatest hidden tax on each and everyone of us), by spying on the American people through tapping of their telephones, tracking their emails and snooping into their financial records, by detaining so-called "enemy combatants" without allowing them recourse to legal assistance and torturing them in the process, by repeatedly sticking it to Congress with its super secret, none-of-your-business response, this small covey of power-hungry individuals are running the United States of America down a slippery slope to bankruptcy and world scorn.
This Bush guy is so much more impeachable than Clinton and Nixon put together, that one would think it would be a piece of cake. But the Congress doesn't have the stomach for it --- or for anything else for that matter.
If we have to hold out until November of next year, there's two things everyone of us can do: 1- whatever is necessary to insure that all voting machines leave a paper trail in 2008. (These guys will stop at nothing); 2- Whatever is necessary to protect our financial assets. Remember, those assets are on a one-way track from the many to the few, and all paper assets are nothing more than that: "just a piece of paper."
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