We had eight years of Bush and Cheney, but now you get mad!
You didn’t get mad, when the Supreme Court stopped a legal recount and appointed a President.
You didn’t get mad, when Cheney allowed Energy company officials to dictate energy policy.
You didn’t get mad, when a covert CIA operative got ousted.
You didn’t get mad, when the Patriot Act got passed.
You didn’t get mad, when we illegally invaded a country that posed no threat to us.
You didn’t get mad, when we spent over 600 billion (and counting) on said illegal war.
You didn’t get mad, when over 10 billion dollars just disappeared in Iraq.
You didn’t get mad, when you found out we were torturing people.
You didn’t get mad, when the government was illegally wiretapping Americans.
You didn’t get mad, when we didn’t catch Bin Laden.
You didn’t get mad, when you saw the horrible conditions at Walter Reed.
You didn’t get mad, when we let a major US city drown.
You didn’t get mad, when we gave a 900 billion tax break to the rich.
You didn’t get mad, when, using reconciliation, a trillion dollars of our tax dollars were redirected to insurance companies for Medicare Advantage which cost over 20 percent more for basically the same services that Medicare provides.
You didn’t get mad, when the deficit hit the trillion dollar mark, and our debt hit the thirteen trillion dollar mark.
You finally got mad, when the government decided that people in America deserved the right to see a doctor if they are sick.
Yes, illegal wars, lies, corruption, torture, stealing your tax dollars to make the rich richer, are all okay with you, but helping other Americans… oh hell no. NOW YOU’RE MAD!
emphasis mine
EDIT: This may be the original. If not, it’s good anyway.
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April 23, 2010 at 12:01 am
Sue
Great stuff Helen. I wish I wrote it!
April 23, 2010 at 12:45 am
helenl
I agree, Sue. I wish I had, too.
April 23, 2010 at 11:14 am
Mervi
There are some good points. There are some bad points.
Mervi
April 23, 2010 at 11:24 am
helenl
Nothing like being vague, Mervi. What good points? What bad points?
May 3, 2010 at 8:11 am
Richard
we must stay mad until we the people are treated as good as the Banks, Insurance company’s and other large corporations.
May 3, 2010 at 10:09 am
helenl
Well, Richard. I don’t know what you mean by “we.”
Universal health care is essential to good treatment of the people. Honest it is. And when a health care law was passed was when Republicans got mad. Selfish, selfish, selfish. The poor are a part of “we.”