I think inherited means what it says…inherited, passed down, handed over, bequeathed. The man who handed down the abomination is George W. Bush. Bush’s administration created it with bad policies, bad decisions, and little oversight — just plain bad government with our congress tooting Bush’s horn all along the way. Individuals stacked up hills of gold during the process and it was a process, a series of actions that culminated in a man-made disaster.

It could have been stopped at any junction but like I said — some people were getting rich. Some thought the bubble would never burst. I’m an independent so I can say these things.

I can say I was forced to watch “the process” from my television. When you start yelling at your TV you know something is very, very wrong. I can say I thought my wise congress made up of so many wise minds would do something to stop bad Bush policies. I wanted Bush impeached, not for what he did in Iraq but because of what he was doing domestically and to me personally.

I begged McCain and Kyl to do something, since they were my senators, but all they did was smile, ignore me, and continue to toot their horns even louder for the man who was sending our jobs away, keeping our borders open, giving us dangerous food and on and on. Today they’re not tooting but they’re not apologizing either.

I want an apology. I want my congress to acknowledge its complicity. I want retribution. I want to pin faces to the madness and incompetency of Bush’s rule and I want people to stand up and admit their part. Is this so wrong? I feel it’s what I need so that I can begin to mend.

You can say that Obama’s new policies are his but go no further. Don’t forget for a minute that it was Bush who gave Obama a stage full of fear to work from, a platform from which to bully us with golden rhetoric leading to submission, a ransacked coffer, and a discredited Republican Party.

No one wants to be reminded that the man, the president they backed with unfailing homage was not only unworthy but dangerous to the health of the country. Yet…here I am to remind you of just that. The problem is not that you chose him but that you allowed him to go on without challenge.

Is it possible that the Mexican/American drug trade is tolerated by both countries to keep Mexico fiscally afloat?

NAFTA was supposed to bring prosperity to Canada, the U.S. and Mexico but it failed. Mexico is still foundering. Some of our factories moved to Mexico, even Hershey candy bars, but they’re still foundering. We allow Mexico’s citizens in and are forced to support them at the state level, but Mexico is still foundering. We allow our hospitals to go broke caring for “those who can’t pay,” but still Mexico is
foundering.

We know that Mexico depends on the remittances from Mexicans working in the U.S. This is an integral part of their economy, almost one-third of their economy I believe. Are the drug billions they make, at the heavy price of addicting some of our citizens, an integral part of the Mexican economy? Would Mexico be a failed country if the U.S. didn’t ALLOW Mexico to feed off of our economy?

Inquiring minds want to know.

During the 2008 campaign, a lot of us tried to warn America about his brand of change and what it would bring to our country. We are now seeing that change happen and it is not a pretty sight.