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UNDERSTANDING THE BUSH CHARACTER
AUDREY'S MISSILES
Submitted by Don Stacey
Mar. 17, 2005
AUDREY'S MISSILES
A weekly newsletter dedicated to the peaceful
reform of the United States government.
UNDERSTANDING THE BUSH CHARACTER
The 2006 federal budget is a grim reminder of the first days
of the Clinton Administration. Bill Clinton had promised a war on
drugs during his campaign for the presidency, but one of his first
acts was to cut the funding for the Drug Enforcement Agency by 83%!
In his second campaign George Bush promised an all out war on terror,
but his 2006 budget does not provide for the 2,000 new border agents
that were authorized in a bill that Congress passed and that he signed
just a few months ago. Small wonder politicians rank so low in the
opinion of most Americans.
In an interview with USA TODAY, Tom Ridge, Secretary of
Homeland Security, made light of the idea of adding so many border
patrol agents and said it would be an inefficient use of precious
homeland security
dollars. By contrast, T.J. Bonner, president of the National Border
Patrol Council, said the Bush administration is making a mistake.
"Cameras don't catch people, people catch people," he said. "If you
don't have the agents you're not going to catch the people your
technology sees." Does George Bush really want to stem the flow of
illegals? Why not make use of both remedies, and why not make a
substantial increase detention facilities so that illegals are not
just caught and then released with a notice given to them to appear
for a hearing, what the illegals call "a notice to disappear?"
It may be that the public is beginning to understand George
Bush. Currently we have the his claim that Social Security is in
crisis and then his remedy that would make that claimed crisis worse.
Two years ago there were obviously false statements regarding weapons
of mass destruction which were plainly either contrived or greatly
exaggerated in order to justify the invasion of Iraq. Then he has
proposed a "Clear Skies Initiative" that would increase the allowable
pollutants in the air. Should we mention the nine billion dollars
missing in Iraq? The "no bid" contacts? The Halliburton scandals?
How about the failure to stop the market manipulation of the wholesale
price of electricity that cost California billions? All of these
facts should give rise to some very serious questions. Why is Bush
pandering to Vincente Fox on the immigration problem? Why has he
failed to enforce existing laws? The public can say, well, he is just
catering to big business and their demands
for cheap labor. How could all of these policies be just be gross
incompetence or political philosophy? Does it have anything to do with
his
early problems with illegal drugs and the criminal enterprises that are
flourishing along our borders and within the country as well?
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