[lit-ideas] Re: The winner has already been selected?
- From: "Veronica Caley" <vcaley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2004 22:19:37 -0500
Marlena: wonder how the people here would
react were someone like Bush to decide that he didn't want our own People
to be
in charge of our lives.
He has already decided that and acted on it. He allows corporate and
environmental predators to have the upper hand. He is taking away what
little reproductive rights women had. He is causing terrible economic
situations by tax cuts which force states like mine, Michigan, to cut
education, Medicaid, etc. etc. Our legislature is a wholly owned
subsidiary of Right to Life, Catholic values crew. The governor is a
Democrat who inherited a billion dollar deficit from the previous
Republican governor of eight years. She is now contemplating cutting more
out of medical care for the working poor and indigent and cutting yet more
out of education budgets from kindergarten through university.
We lose hundreds of thousands of jobs to everywhere else in the world. In
this part of the country, we are becoming a third world nation.
There was an article in the local paper about how this state used to be
among the leaders in all these areas. Now we are right there with Alabama,
one of the most backward southern states in the US. Appalling.
In the budget bill, yes, you read it right, the budget bill, the
Republicans in the Congress inserted an amendment so that health care
workers, pharmacists, physicians, etc. no longer had to give or fill
prescriptions or give information on birth control. It was removed, but
wait until the next Congress convenes.
Veronica
> [Original Message]
> From: <Eternitytime1@xxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 12/2/2004 11:41:09 PM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: The winner has already been selected?
>
>
> In a message dated 12/2/2004 8:37:55 PM Central Standard Time,
> phil.enns@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:
> Hand the keys over to the Iraqis, move
> the troops out of the cities and into the countryside,
>
>
> Hi,
> Please--would you explain this one? Why into the countryside and not
back
> to the countries to which they belong???
>
> I read the interim constitution and it is kind of horrible if you were
one
> of the ones to be affected. I doubt that many would care enough to do
so,
> though.
>
> I cannot imagine being in Iraq right now and being a mom. I cannot
imagine
> allowing someone who Bush wanted elected BE elected--solely because my
trust
> in his 'care and concern' for me and my babies would just be totally NOT
> there.
>
> I look around my quiet suburban world and wonder how the people here
would
> react were someone like Bush to decide that he didn't want our own People
to be
> in charge of our lives. (granted, it would never happen considering the
> amount of people who are losing jobs, need healthcare--women like the
Bush
> supporter across the street who just informed me of the conflict in her
household
> about money and how she is going to go back to work even though she has
two
> little ones and they are still convinced that Bush cares enough for them
and
> conservative family values so the disconnect over her having to do so
since the
> finances have shifted n the past 2 years to cause this...(I am kind of
tired
> of being the marriage counselor, can you tell? I was tonight, too, for
> another family, as well...though they didn't vote for Bush--they voted
for no
> one. Like that helped anyone...)
>
> I have thought, for a long time, that the US ought to stay until things
are
> 'okay' in Iraq since we de-stabilized the whole country and destroyed
what
> infrastructure they DID have.
>
> I am not so sure, any longer.
>
> I think of how generous the US and Other nations are in *forgiving*
> debt--debt caused because we lent Saddam Hussein $$ for weapons... has
nothing to do
> with the $$ that will be needed to repair the damage done which has been
done
> by US (and other) troops.
>
> The 'selfish' part of me understands that we need to control the region
and
> the oil in order for our own people to have what we want. The part of me
> which aches with the Other is in dismay.
>
> I also know from talking to siblings and others in the military and
> industrial military complex that the dehumanizing of the Iraqi people is
practically
> complete. It scares me. I cannot completely join them--just trying to,
> though, in order to try to stem the frustration is an exercise which is
rather
> horrific. Oh, well, right? Most of us are not affected and will never
be.
> But...my heart breaks, nevertheless. I think of what if it were me and
Ben...
>
> Still longing for a miracle,
> Marlena in Missouri
>
>
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