In his State of the Union speech, President Bush told U.S. troops: “America is proud of you. And my administration, and this Congress will give you the resources you need to fight and win the war on terror.” Several minutes later, he noted: “It’ [RETURN TO ARTICLE]
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Reader Comments
Great article.
Out here in California, some counties have such a large working homeless population that we wonder if we’re living in the End of Times - The fabled silicon Valley has a situation where about 30% of the people who are homeless have full-time jobs.
How can we pay for hospitals in Iraq when our own elderly can’t get care? Did you know that Iraqis pay only 10 cents a gallon for gas??!!!! Why the hell doesn’t our government subsidize the gas for us with our own tax money??!!!! And that’s why 1 out of 3 of our hard-earned dollars goes straight to the federal government.
Where are all the real conservatives. Your fake President is selling our children down river to all the Ken Lays of his inner circle, and you’re helping him do it with your blind allegiance to principles that he only pretends to care about.
Thanks to ITT for continued quality journalism.
35 million Americans are living below the poverty line / 12 million people have difficulty securing enough food / 44 million lack health insurance / 8.4 million people are officially unemployed.——— now read that over and over again till you actually really understand what capitalism does to your (and most other) country (countries). Then spread the word and hope other people do to.
READ that again, these are millions of american people we’re talking about.
NOW multiply that a dozen times and think globally.
Still wondering why people burn your flag all over the world?????????? then read and think again.
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