Granny can’t get her medication but Paris can keep her tax cut.

"Cutting the deficit during a time of war requires us to restrain spending in other areas," Mr Bush said in his weekly radio address.

Mr Bush said the budget for the year starting in October 2007 would underline the need to tighten spending on domestic programs - including on education, energy and health.
The Washington Post newspaper said domestic spending would increase by 1% - less than inflation.

What this means is that the middle class working people of America (i.e. YOU unless you make several million dollars a year) will continue to bare the brunt of this “war on terror”. We will continue to see the cost of our everyday necessities go up in order to fund the brutal illegal war in Iraq.

What really makes me angry with this whole thing is that the “media” is complicit in the raping and pillaging of our nation. The average American will not see the connection between the war, the profits for the elite few, and the tax cuts for millionaires that are bought with the blood and backs of our middle class workers.

WE are the soldiers in the streets of Iraq and Afghanistan. WE are the people working 2 and 3 jobs just to maintain the standard of living we had 10 years ago. WE are the ones who will be choosing this next year between diapers for the baby or glasses for our 8 year old. WE are the ones PAYING for Bush’s “tax cuts” for the RICH.

Does Paris Hilton REALLY need to keep a tax cut when the rest of us are paying for it?

Am I the only one who sees the problem with this picture?

By the People

What I had once supposed was the right of passage for hippies in the 1960's.. had become for me a trial of hope. Were we only a few.. "left wing moon bats", not informed about the "reality" of the war? Or was I on the side of good, the side of sanity?

As the day built, more and more people came.. the news media, of course, maintains that there were less than 100,000 people there. But I know better. Everywhere you looked there were people. Their ages ranged from 6 months to 90 years old from all walks of life.

What struck me most about this march was the unity in calling for an end to this horrible war, and the knowledge that our government has become corrupt. The level of anger, frustration and contempt for our current president was obvious, as was the deep sense of love for our country. This was not a group of people trying to "change" America.. this was a large group of Patriots reclaiming what has been lost in the last 6 years.... A government OF THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE AND FOR THE PEOPLE.

These were people that had "skin in the game". They were loved ones of soldiers in Iraq or of soldiers killed there. They were soldiers themselves, and others who are being ground down under the weight of the debt.This "peace" movement is about so much more than peace, it so much more than it was in the 60's.

It's not about love and peace this time... it's about fighting for our country from domestic enemies and restoring our place in the world as the example of goodness and democracy.It's time to turn off the TVs folks.. it's time to get to the streets. This country of ours is not a reality show.... it is all we have really to pass onto our kids. Let us pass on something worth having.