By The River

I get the sense that there is a lot of anxiety in America about where things are going with our country and culture. Kind of like the man who has maxed out his credit cards to keep his lifestyle afloat, but now sees the end of the road ahead and dreads what will happen when the bill comes due. We have endured four years and three months of the Bush Presidency. During that time he led us into a war on false pretenses, a war that will cost the country trillions of dollars when all is said and done. Think what could have been done with that money at home. He dropped the ball completely when it came to protecting the people of the Gulf Coast, of New Orleans, from the hurricanes and their aftermath. Our government is dangerously underfunded because of the tax cuts for the wealthy. We just don't have enough money in the budget anymore to be a modern, progressive nation at the dawn of the 21st century. Do we want to be like a South American country with gross disparities between rich and poor, but where the rich need to live in houses surrounded by walls with broken glass embedded in the top? I don't.