A letter my Dad sent to Bu$h

Dad is going to be 75 in a couple months. He and my mother grew up during the Great Depression. He is a "shoot from the hip" old bugger for sure. I thought y'all might enjoy reading this.



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To: President@WhiteHouse.gov
Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 11:47 PM
Subject: WHY????


Mr. President, I cannot understand why you persist in taking away from those
of us who have the least in this life. We working types have only one way to
make enough money to have anything extra in life and that is to learn a
skill or trade, join a union and participate in collective bargaining in
order to make the most we can out of our lot in life. Not everyone can sit
in an office and prop our feet up on a desk and figure out how to get rich
on the backs of those people out there doing the work without breaking a
sweat ourselves. And most of the people like me love to actually do hard
work and are satisfied at the end of the day with what we have produced as
well as being proud of it.

But I think you should take a little time to think about who it is that
really makes this world go 'round. Then perhaps you will stop trying to
destroy the only medium available to us to bargain for our share of the pie.
And stop trying to force us back into the age where we were standing outside
the gate waiting for someone to die or get fired in order to make a vacancy
so we could get a job at any price. It was pitiful back then and it is more
pitiful today.

Although I am retired on a Teamster pension and Social Security, I have
children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren who need a place in life
where they can also make a decent living. Too bad you never had to stand in
our boots. Perhaps you could better understand how detrimental what you are
doing really is.

Sincerely, J.. M......, a native born Texan

very touching. Let us know if your dad gets an answer.

Thank you for sharing that.
Now, if only someone will read it to Bush, (because he refuses to read mail or emails). Perhaps with it being published on the internet, SOMEONE will HAVE to read it to him.

The shrub likes to use religion to answer for what he does. And if God didn't want the people sheared, He would not have made them sheep.


Bush Lied, People Died, Media Cheered

And before you bring up My Pet Goat, he was probably just bedazzled by the pictures.

Maybe Dad should have included some pictures!

It was the kids reading to him.

Sincerely, J.. M......, a native born Texan


GOOD DIG......

I can remember watching him break and train horses whan I was a kid. There wasn't a horse on the farm rank enough to get the best of him. Unlike our dear chimperor who is afraid of horses.

And post it. I wanna see if he just gets a form letter, or if someone actually took the time to READ what your dad said. He said it a lot more eloquently...and far more diplomatically than I would or could.

I'm off to bed now, have fun!

:thumbsup:

We need more people like your father -the world would be a much better place

That this writing teacher liked how he got straight to the point--no wading through any fluff to understand where your dad is coming from!

I also liked how he described the average American's need for work. Really and truly, that is something a person like bush will never understand. When Bush entered the job market, he thought work was picking up the phone and dropping his dad's name so he could get some Saudi to invest a few million.

Oh and yeah, with his feet propped up on the desk!


Cher

May I copy this and give to my Step-Dad? He is a UAW man and is losing his job soon. I think he would like to post it in his factory somewhere.

I bet he would really like that.

give him a hug from me and a lick from flea!

yes INDEED :thumbsup:

Maybe a local paper might put this in their "letter to the editor" section.