BY NORM ROURKE
Watching Feed The Children trucks unloading boxes of food in Wilmington, OH, while people waited in line, broke my heart and made me angry at the same time. The scene broke my heart because my wife knows people in Wilmington. It angered me because the fools in Washington are so out of touch [...]
FRANK P. BELCASTRO Dubuque, IA
From the time when President Bush took office to now, the cost of a family health insurance premium has gone up 87%; the number of uninsured people has gone up 19%; the number of families living in poverty has gone up 19%; real median household income has dropped 1%; and corporate [...]
FRANK P. BELCASTRO Dubuque, IA
President Bush tried to use his final days in office to push through a free trade agreement with Colombia that would reward one of the hemisphere’s worst human rights abusers.
Human Rights Watch notes the country has “the world’s highest rate of killings of trade unionists. The violence there is so serious, [...]
FRANK P. BELCASTRO Dubuque, Iowa
The members of the Bush Administration may have been the most disastrous dreamers, the most reckless gamblers, and the most vigorous imperial hucksters and grifters in our history. Selling was their passion. And they were classic American salesmen – if you’re talking about Hussein’s mushroom clouds rising over American cities, or [...]
KAREN WEBB Moore, OK
On public radio’s The Takeaway, they asked listeners to come up with a statement, in eight words or less, of the eight Bush years. I had to go in the store so I don’t know if they used mine, but it was:
Unbridled greed, self-indulgence and self-righteous sanctimony run amok.
Observer contributor Richard L. Fricker is traveling the heartland, discovering what’s on the minds of Americans in advance of the mid-term elections.
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