Sad reply from my mom - another example of bush ruining america

[Joz]

I just wrote my parents regarding my feelings about the katrina ordeal (computer has been down) and got a reply from my mom. We are an immigrant family from Poland, came to America because of how great of a country it was. I grew up here since age 4 (am 25 now). My family has really had it with the Bush administration, and her response to my email brought tears to my eyes.

What I wrote, followed by her reply:

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>I've been pretty upset about the hurricane. I could
>not believe the pathetic and embarrassing governmental
>response to the aftermath. Those thousands of poor
>people (literally) that had no way to leave the city
>and had to go to that superdome, AND THEN FOR THREE
>DAYS AFTER THE HURRICANE IS GONE THERE IS ZERO
>ASSISTANCE TO THEM!?!?!? What in the hell kind of
>retarded administration is this? WHAT IS SO HARD
>ABOUT DROPPING SOME FOOD AND SUPPLIES IN THERE BY
>HELICOPTER THE NEXT DAY!?!!? What, they're telling me
>that in the entire state of Louisiana they have NO
>PREPARED SUPPLIES!?!? JESUS, HOW HARD IS IT TO ORDER
>SOME HELICOPTERS TO DROP SOME FOOD, WATER, AND MEDICAL
>SUPPLIES, WHAT IS SO HARD ABOUT THAT!?!?!?!?? There
>are no helicopters or food/medical supplies left in
>the country?? NONE!?!? It's so stupid I wish I could
>punch that asshole in the face. How embarrassing.
>Pathetic, completely pathetic. It's just
>unbelievable, I can't even say anything else about it
>right now.

I know, that's what we were saying. I wanted to email you right away. I don't even know if the word "upset" is enough to describe the way we feel about this tragedy in New Orleans. I was even, at some point sorry, that we brought you (and ourselves) to this country in 1985.
We're far from each other now but we need to continue to remain close as a family.
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[mirandaod]

1. Well, I'm glad they came and brought you.

We need all the smart people we can get. There are still too many people who can't see the truth about this government.

[Joz]

6. Thanks, thats really nice of you.

:) :) :)

[Is It Fascism Yet]

2. I couldn't agree more with you and your mom. Round about now

many of us who were born in America are starting to be embaressed to be American too. What is Poland's immigration policy like? Maybe they will take American refugees?

[wake.up.america]

3. I was not born there, I did not grow up there, but I am emabarassed...

for America. It's like watching Bush give a speech as if he had the text for the first time.

[Joz]

5. Doubt you'd have any problem getting in

to Poland. It's a nice country and growing nicely, especially in regards to internet technologies - just go to wikipedia.org and notice that one of the 10 languages it's in is Polish. I guess I have that dual citizenship since I was born there, and it would be easy to live anywhere in europe now that it is part of the EU.. but I've grown up here and love America too much to ever leave. I want to be dedicated to making this country what it is supposed to be.

STUPID presidential law though.. how is it fair that somebody can run across the border and have their child here, raise them in some other country, and they can come back for their second day ever in America and run for the presidency, but somebody who was raised here, lived here for 90% of their lives, and knows no other home can not? Maybe we can fix that..

[Is It Fascism Yet]

7. I don't want to fix that. Fixing that would give us Ahnold for Pres. N/T

[Joz]

8. Yeah right

He's doing such a poor job here in CA, he's probably not even going to get re-elected. I didn't say fix it so anybody can run, the law has some sense in it, it's just that it was created before the discovery of the airplane, and western america. Simply modify it so that you can run for president if you've lived 90% of your life in America. Arnold wouldn't qualify, and shouldn't IMO. Probably knows more about austria than america.

[wli]

9. Poland sounds very very interesting. n/t

[Oeditpus Rex]

4. Whoa... that's huge

I wonder if other immigrants have had similar reactions to the Wregime.
Glad you're here, though, Joz. :toast:

[melody]

10. Just have to add this, as a descendant of English and Scots-Irish colonist

I'm crawling off to bed shortly, but I just had to add something here. I am nothing but an American. I'm 1/5th Cherokee, but that's not enough to be more than a well-meaning poser among most Native Americans. My people left Great Britain so long ago that no one who lived in the regions from which they came would even acknowledge me as a relative now. I'm descended from William Tyndale's sister Margaret and Sir Rowland Taylor, all of which ties me into cousin lines that include John Adams, James Madison, Zachary Taylor, and Confederate President (and avid abolitionist, btw) Jefferson Davis. I'm also related to Alexander Job, a gentleman who was born in the middle of the ocean between York, England and the Carolinas, and who became a Quaker abolitionist who helped build the underground railroad.

These people I'm very proud to have as relatives, due to the civilization that now exists that wouldn't exist without them. Can you imagine a world without John Adams? His writings in defense of liberty (when he was a lone voice in favor of it) are so important that they are quoted today in various different contexts without anyone suspecting he wrote them to in the first place. I can't imagine a world without the contributions of the US south or the north. I can't imagine a world without Quaker pacifism and their love of justice.

This isn't the beginning of a Lee Greenwood song :rofl: and I don't mean to just drop names, but to point out that my people have been here a long, long time. Surely all of the past overshadows the last five years. Are we to dismiss the whole country over one George Bush?

I'm happy for those of you with other cultures, but I only have this one, and I think it's well worth saving.

Okay, end of diatribe. / :rant: Rant off mode. Good whatever it is where you are.