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In response to one of my Bush posts I got this comment from one of the few remaining Bush supporters in the county. I decided to make my response to the comments a post. I appreciate this person’s feedback, even though I strongly disagree with most of his points. My comments are in blue.

“Maybe we should tax the hell out of internet gambling!”

- Actually that’s a wonderful idea. What the government is doing right now is trying to pass a bill to push internet gambling further underground. This precludes them from the benefit of taxing it and regulating it. It’s a multi billion dollar industry and the government thinks that prohibition and jailing online poker players is the best course of action. Welcome to China.

“Get over it, nothing you say will ever change the way the poor suck off the government, or us.”

- Indeed. But not all poor people are evil spongers. Some people are born into poverty, receive a crappy education, maybe their mother did drugs during the pregnancy and now the kid has a 90 IQ. There are a million reasons why people are disadvantaged, and it is a right wing fallacy to assume they are just lazy. Not everyone is capable of working hard and suddenly getting rich. What’s more my post referred to the Bush program of reducing services such as education grants and healthcare. Things that will create even more poor people that cannot dig their way out of the poverty cycle.

“If people work hard and make their own money.”

- In the ideal world it would be that simple. But there are millions of people in America that work very hard doing two or maybe three jobs and still only make enough to scrape by. Then their car breaks down, or they get sick and have no health insurance and suddenly they have bills they can’t pay and the cycle of poverty begins.

"The rich pay more tax's in one year than you will ever pay in your entire life.”

- Yep, and they can afford it too. If you are Donald Trump and you have to pay several million dollars in tax, that is not going to curtail your life style in any way shape or form. When Bush continues to give tax cuts to the super rich, it really isn’t going to improve their lifestyle in any way. They just get to hoard a couple of million extra that they will never need to use. So why do it? Why not use the money to help the poor and needy to help themselves? Why not use the money to dig this country out of the horrific debt Bush has created?

“These people have worked hard, taken chance's, and they have prevailed.”

- That’s a romantic view of the world. Many rich people are lazy lay-a-bouts whose parents or grandparents worked hard and got rich. Do you think that George Bush worked hard for his money? Every business he ever had was a flop, propped up by his rich daddy.

And for every success story of those who have worked hard, taken chances and prevailed there are a dozen who took their shot and missed. Now they are working in some dead end job they hate wondering why life was so cruel to them. Does this make them any less of a human than those who were more fortunate?

“Our president has done more in eight years for this great nation than anyone has in a long time.”

- Wow, talk about flying in the face of public opinion! Even among white male die-hard republicans Bush’s popularity is at an all time low. I would love to hear from a right winger like you and know what it is that you feel he has achieved. By my way of thinking his legacy will be to have deepened the gap between rich and poor, classified more documents than any administration in history, presided over the worst terrorist attack in our nations history, plunged us into war with some random country based on lies and misinformation, created the largest deficit in our history, made America almost universally hated internationally, sold our ports to some Arabs, cut back government programs that help with health care and education, allowed thousands of Americans to suffer during our worst natural disaster due to incompetent leadership, and done all this surrounded by a bunch of cronies many of whom have no business at all being in the position they are in.

He may have done more in six years than other presidents that came before, but sadly not in a good way.

“The more people with views such as this is what seperate's americans. If you want to converse about problems come to the table with a solution, or you are just another problem.”

- Unfortunately there may be no magic solution at this point. It will likely take years to get the country back on track after all the damage he has done. The solution was not to take the nation down this dark road in the first place. But the best solution I can think of right now is to impeach him before he does any more damage and bring a competent leader in to start cleaning up the mess.

“I do enjoy reading your comments though, it makes me understand why I love this great nation.”

- Thank you. I enjoyed reading yours, and welcome any future comments you might want to make. I value everyone’s opinion even if I strongly disagree with it.

I too love this nation, not because I happened to be born here, but because I chose this place as my home. However, when I see Bush hurting it, I feel obliged to speak out. To blindly support the president for reasons of patriotism is actually harmful to this great nation. We hired him to take care of the country, but history will show that he was woefully ill-equipped to perform in this roll. The damage he has done will take a very long time to rectify.