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July 28, 2004 It has occurred to me that when I refer to my esteemed opponents feeding at the public trough that WE, you and I are the slop in the trough. That not only do the purveyors of pork barrel projects that are used to secure home town votes feed off the whole of the nation but that we, the slop in the trough, are fed off of by the rest of the world. I understand that our economy is the engine that drives the world’s economy but is it fair that we must support and ship the jobs that support the world’s economy to the rest of the world also? I ask this question not with my usual tongue in check but rather as a serious inquiry as to just what in the heck are we doing to ourselves by having the same Ivy League crowd rule this nation. What have we done the population of this nation that deserves such disregard by them supposedly put in an elected office to protect our interests? We have a current president who has a problem eating a potato chip and sitting on the couch at the same time without choking. A Man whose interests have always lay towards the furtherance of wealth, particularly his own and the wealth of them who paid for his election. We have a candidate vying for the job who also comes from that same Ivy league establishment that has skulled and boned us so often in the past. Make no mistake and don’t be fooled by Bushes down home “I’m sorta from Texas” routine, he is as much a part of the Eastern Establishment as any Kennedy or Kerry. I have high regard for Kerry and Bush, Kennedy and the other Bush but it seems to me the best times for the American people in the last fifty years came from them who did not come from Maine, Massachusetts or Texas (by way of Maine). It seems to me that the best times for the American people have come when a fellow from Arkansas (Clinton), Illinois (Reagan) and even a small town called Plains Georgia (Carter) led the nation. now I now that there are many instances of trouble in the mentioned administrations of the non-Ivy Leaguers, but one kicked over the threat we grew up with (Soviet domination) the other while troubled by a special prosecutor and a small impeachment thing, presided over the largest expansion of jobs the nation had seen since the great depression and the third while to most was abysmal was a model of moderation and HONESTY. Both Bush’ took us into wars that for one had a lot of the stink of a put up job (Desert Storm) and the other just plain and simple lies foisted on us to further a (in my opinion) personal goal of a man who would be king. And lest you call me for harping on the Republicans let’s not forget the Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile crisis of the Kennedy brothers and the Vietnam war, also escalated by JFK (then Johnson a non [way non] Ivy Leaguer). And throughout it all the world fed off of the American people’s largesse and pocketbook. To what end? To the end that our middle class jobs have been exported to other places, to the end that the Chinese and the Japanese which are our biggest trade competitors still feed off of us by tying their currencies to ours so that they float in exact lock step with ours. In the end the easiest way to say it is we support not only ourselves but 2,000,000,000 or more Chinese citizens on another continent. I know of a woman, living in Massachusetts, near on eighty years old who just received notice that she is to be cut off from her states health coverage for the elderly because she made ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY NINE DOLLARS too much last year. First off, she shouldn’t have to be working at seventy seven years old, but she can’t seem to live on her seven hundred and fifty three dollar a month social security check so she got a job working for Meals on Wheels. We support Iraqi gasoline so the Iraqi’s only pay a nickel a gallon for something they do not produce, yet we take away health coverage from an old AMERICAN woman because she worked to feed herself a little better. At 77 years of age. Maybe she should have gone to Harvard instead of marrying a fisherman. Where is the justice? This person like all average Americans spent her youth and more productive years being fed off of by the rest of the world, she paid her taxes and got up in the morning and went to work anyway, yet now for a hundred and seventy dollars she can’t get the state sponsored health insurance. They told her to buy private insurance, insurance that will cost her in the neighborhood of ten times as much as the money that got her kicked off of MassHealth. What is it we are thinking putting these boobs in office, do we believe that they are anything more than of average intelligence; that because they come from the Harvard yard that they actually will do better for us, the average trough fodder? I for one am disgusted by all of the folderol and am growing contemptuous of them all. They have not the interests of them that put them in office where they secure for themselves benefits far and above any the average American can hope for. None of them, not a one of them care for anything other than their own ego and pocket book, they worry more about their “place in history” than they do about an old lady who as of August Third 2004 will have no health insurance. A woman who just like you and me is fodder for the trough they feed at. ------------ About the author: Mark C. Durfee is an independent conservative liberal hedonist Christian Bhuddist deveotee of Krishna who follows no crowds and who thinks that the Viagra commercial with Freddy Mercury singing while a bunch of men dance is funny. His novels are nothing like his articles and they cannot be found at Barnes and Noble or Walden books, Amazon.com or your local independent bookstore because he has not been discovered. His favorite saying is "Duck!!! That drive-by may have your name on it!" Email: mcd5255@hotmail.com Tell a friend about this site! ------------ |
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