Confessions Of A Bush Hater

[Joeve]

This is a part of my response to this column by Molly Ivins. The entire response can be read on The Cup O Joe Blog.

As I have said on numerous occasions, my anger and my venom are not aimed at Mr. Bush personally, nor is it aimed at the rich in general. How much money someone has and how they have earned it is, for the most part, none of my damn business and nor should it be. But when people like Mr. Bush and his friends use that money to gain political influence in order to get even more money at my expense and at the expense of the rest of us working slobs who want nothing better than to live our lives in peace, then I start to get offended.

While I might sigh and shrug at the unfairness of the world that people like him exist and that I will likely never know what it means to be financially secure for the rest of my life, I will not sit idly by while I am being systematically robbed of my ability to work, of my right to earn the wages I deserve, of my right to participate in my own government. And I am not alone.