Governor

I would have hoped that the double-digit increase in gas prices would have caused you to rethink the gas tax increase but silly me.

 

Democrats never miss a chance to raise taxes because of their bone deep belief they know how to handle our money better than we do.  Thus perpetuating the plantation mentality that we work for you and you’ll take care of us; with our money.

 

 

 

President Bush, Washington State Senators and Congressional Representatives, Sierra Club, Seattle Times, and Seattle P.I.

 

We need another WPA.  Put the people to work recycling the rubble.  Recycle the wood, the metal, the glass, plastics, and fabrics….  Build camps for the workers and their families to live in until new homes could be built.

 

 

 

 

Letters Editor Seattle Times, Mayor, City Council, and Chief of Police

 

We now know how Seattle would respond to a city emergency, when a flipped trash truck can block traffic for hours and there weren’t any police directing Traffic.  Either on the Elliott Street approach to the Viaduct or on Alaskan Way.  Bad manners, road rage, and sheer stupidity contributed to the congested trip home.

 

Thank you Seattle I guess I’d better stock up on water, candles, and kibble.

 

Respect

 

It’s about respect.  I have tasted just a small bite of the poisonous fruit that is disrespect.

 

So in New Orleans you’re poor, but not only poor but poor and Black.  You live a hardscrabble life and get by until coming at you is a category 5 hurricane. 

 

Your City, Parish, and State officials have failed to prepare contingency plans that would provide transportation, water, shelter, and protection for the poor that will be without all of these.  The politicians had no respect for the poor. 

 

You go where you’re told and you survive in conditions that quickly become horrific and still you wait to be rescued.  You hang on tight to the last bit of dignity and humanity that is all you have.  You’re an American after all and America takes care of its own. 

 

But when the rains stop and the water subsides the politicians that didn’t have any respect for you float to the top of the foetid sewer that were your streets and loudly complain about how the “Government” failed you.

 

I’m mad as hell.  The faces of the American citizens in such desperation is a shame to all of us.  We shouldn’t take foreign aid.  We don’t deserve it.  We were disrespectful of our fellow citizens and we should pay for it.

 

Damn those politicians who were more interested in self-serving pork than these exact events that were predicted years ago.  Damn them for their hypocrisy.  Damn them for their cowardice.  And, damn them for being disrespectful of their fellow Americans.