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Thank You, Mr. Bush

Robert A. Pilkington

Published: February 7, 2009

Since you have had all kinds of writers sending thank you letters I thought I would add my thanks to Mr. Bush:
For lying to us about WMD that Iraq had so you and your ilk could go to war and make certain people wealthy.
For giving all those tax breaks to the wealthy and lying to us how a trickle down economy would work for me.
For letting all those good jobs run offshore to make jobs for the Asians and Mexicans.
For giving tax breaks to the wealthy and then borrowing money from foreign nations that my grandchildren are going to find difficult to pay back and blame me.
For borrowing money to run an unnecessary war in Iraq from China instead of making the benefactors of that war pay through higher taxes.
For taking regulations off the "Clean Water Act" and taking regulations off that allow mining in our national parks and regulations off that allow lumber barons to once again rape the land that belongs to me and my grandchildren.
To you and your Republican antecedents for taking the regulations off the Wall Street barons of greed that created the collapse of the money industry and caused me and my wife to lose so much of the money that we saved for our retirement.
For standing by and letting all those speculators run up the price of gasoline so I could go out and buy a car that gets 45 to 50 miles to the gallon.
For letting the evil one called vice president go home from the job you gave him richer than when he came into your evil empire.
And finally, thank you Mr. Bush for getting yourself so disliked that you let all those Democratic people into government so that maybe we get something done for the common man.
Robert A. Pilkington Avon Park