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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: lorne who wrote (57939)	2/6/2005 11:46:48 AM
From: ChinuSFO	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

You have argued for whether to fight terror or not. My issue is not whether we should fight terror but how should we fight the scourge of terrorism. Bin Laden is not only against the US but he also wants to have the US isolated. With Bush in the WH he has succeeded in doing so. The Bin Laden terrorists have also succeeded in weakening the US economy. City budgets across the country are seeing reduced funding for their schools, fire and police. Gap between the rich and poor are widening. Fewer people than in the 1990s can claim to be taking part in the overall prosperity. We continue to set ourselves reduced goals and our measure of success is less that what it was prior to 9/11. Example, unemployment is 5.2% and Bush feels happy with that figure. In past years, Americans also cared about underemployment. This country invited top notch professionals. Today the debate is over making the illegal farm workers legal because the jobs that are left are those that involve picking on the farms. Do you hear H1-B visas any more to the tune that we heard about in the 1990's? How can you? After all we have a President who did not have to fight for anything in his life. Things just came to him. And when he had to fight for something he took the easy way out. So for the Bin Laden terrorists the timing was perfect, they struck at the right place, they had a good proxy (Saddam). And not only Osama and Ayman has been elusive, but even the "one eyed fakir" Mullah Omar is thumbing his nose at Bush.