On the recordJune 5, 2006
gas prices are over $3 a gallon. Fill-ups at the tank, of course, cause emptiness at the bank. This administration, the most friendly to oil Presidency in our history, refuses to buck big oil with the auto manufacturers. Our citizens are literally choking on the lack of alternative fuel. Few incentives for energy created by the Sun, the wind or the Earth's geothermal reserves has this administration endorsed. Raging in Iraq is an intractable war. Our soldiers are fighting valiantly. But we have Abu Ghraib and Haditha, for example, where it is alleged that 24 more civilians were killed by our own, and no policy for winning the peace. However, Secretary Rumsfeld continues in his job with the full backing of the President--not a reprimand, not a suggestion that his Defense Secretary is at fault; a national debt that President Bush won't acknowledge, but our children, their children, and their children's children will have to acknowledge with generations of debt created by President Bush's economic policies; Federal red ink as far as one can see. America is becoming continually more dependent on loans from China, Japan, Saudi Arabia, and even England; a world changing as we speak as a result of global warming, a condition our President does not acknowledge, let alone attempt to reverse. Today, more than 46 million Americans have absolutely no health insurance. Millions more of our countrymen have inadequate health insurance.…
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