Reply #21: And Bush, Cheney, Rove, [View All]

[Golden Raisin]

Norquist and company care just as much for your plight as they did for the displaced people of New Orleans. Frankly, I don't have a lot of faith in the Democrats either although they have a bit more of a social awareness/conscience than the Republicans, who only want to keep the rich richer and gut/abolish every program and aid for the middle and poor classes. They've got theirs and everyone else be damned. Marie Antoinette had nothing on this crowd. So its going to be a long, unpleasant haul for baby boomers (and others) who are not in tip-top financial condition. I used to think the boomers were a significant & huge enough voting bloc to make a difference and force Congress to pay attention, but I've gradually come to the realization that election results just aren't reliable & honest in this country anymore (look at the 2 Dubya elections) so I am seriously worried about what the future will hold. And, except for a very small handful of good apples, our Congresspeople aren't worth a damn. And of course BushCo is too busy pissing away obscene, scandalous & almost incomprehensible amounts of money on Iraq, no bid contracts for Halliburton, keeping the Oil Company CEO's happy, etc. Think what could be accomplished if even a miniscule percentage of that money were devoted to positive issues like cancer research, educating out children to seriously compete in the world economy, resolving and cleaning up the horrendous medical insurance/pharmaceutical disaster that we have in this country, etc.