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Wising Up To Bush To the Editor: Finally, justice and common sense have prevailed. On Nov. 7, 2006, the American people, in their righteous anger, started the process of cleansing the awful stables of Washington, D.C. The American voter turned against the politics of deception, division and disgust. We the people have restored some balance in our government by electing a Congress that professes to be concerned with people, not profit. We have elected a Congress that abhors the "full speed ahead" policy in Iraq, a policy that has cost nearly 3,000 American lives and scores of thousands of Iraqi lives. In addition to the lives lost, this Iraq policy has cost the American taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars that could be better spent on health care, where 45 million Americans have no insurance; on an improved prescription drug program by reducing or eliminating the "doughnut hole"; or by shoring up the Social Security system which has been the greatest piece of social legislation ever enacted. George W. Bush was never a conservative, compassionate or otherwise. President Bush was and is a radical, who seeks to dismantle: He seeks to privatize Medicare. He seeks to privatize Social Security. This President seeks to tear up the social safety net, which has evolved over the past 70 years and which has enabled tens of millions of us to achieve a middle-class standard of living with defined pensions, defined health coverage and defined Social Security. While millions of jobs slip away to India, China or whatever, pensions are threatened and promises of a secure future repudiated. President Bush takes the position that we never had it so good. Full speed ahead! Ronald Reagan once asked the American public if they were better off today than they were four years earlier. Fast forward to today. The American voters concluded that change is essential - that they are not better off with full speed ahead. The American voter held the policies of George Bush accountable. Bush and his politics were "weighed in the balances and found wanting. H.L. Mencken said, "No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people." This election we found our intelligence. On to a new day.
STUART LEIBOWITZ | |||||
