This morning my first thoughts regarded money. We’ll be receiving our property tax bill in the mail any day. Our car is running on its last legs with over 220,000 miles. And my partner, who drives the car on a three-hour round trip for her carpentry job, has been sporadically laid off. Folks aren’t hiring, and the reason is simple. They’re also waking up in the morning worrying about money – taxes, expense increases from gas to food, layoffs, a slim job market, you know the story.
In the vice presidential debate Tuesday evening, topics were posed regarding poverty and the need to boost the working class. In response, Vice President Dick Cheney never uttered the word poverty. In fact, he avoided the topic entirely. He never said what we need to hear: that Americans need those millions of jobs President Bush sent away. And when confronted with the fact that we spent $5 billion on the Gulf War compared to $200 billion so far on this war, his reply was that we’ve “only” spent $95 billion while the other $105 billion was spent elsewhere. This is his casual stance on spending our money.
The fact remains that Bush and Cheney would continue on this path. They would outsource our jobs and support companies who do and would continue to ignore us, the majority, the struggling middle and poverty class people of this country.
Four more years. That’s 1,460 mornings to wake up to.
We must make a change.
Caitlin Allen, Starks
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