[ale] OT: Response to the State of the Union

[matty91 at bellsouth.net]

I ask you, what has George W. Bush actually done since taking office?

* Jeopardy music playing *

Zilch!

On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, aaron wrote:

> On Wednesday 29 January 2003 14:06, cfowler wrote:
> > <BEGGING>Do not run with this and start a wild thread</BEGGING>
>
> Sorry, but you can't throw a bleeding pig into the Amazon River and expect
> all the Piranhas to play dead. However, the well chewed H1-B topic is not
> the political carcass that I need to nibble on in reply...
>
> What I find curious about your letter concerning H1-B abuses is that you
> would bother to send it to Mr. Bush. Surely you don't believe that this
> spoiled rich kid and notoriously arrogant elitist is going to give the
> real problems of common people a moments thought??? I only hope you
> haven't been fooled by the corporate media marketing circus that props up
> our resident select, because it is basically as much of a fraud as he is.
>
> For example, Mr. Bush gave a widely broadcast stump speech to "business
> folk" about the economy at some warehouse in the midwest city last Monday
> (a transparent last ditch PR stunt before he tried to make excuses for
> the Sorry State of the Union). George's handlers staged his podium in
> front of a phony painted backdrop showing stacks of boxes prominently
> stamped with "Made In America" under the banner text "Economic Strength".
> They also placed a few real boxes from the warehouse around the base of
> the podium to complete the scene, only the REAL boxes had tan packing
> tape on the sides to conceal the fact that their contents were "MADE IN
> CHINA". Apparently, in an entire warehouse district, they couldn't find
> 12 boxes containing products that were actually made in this country.
> (: Go, Go, Gadget Globalization! :) Apparently the corporate controlled
> media won't even scratch the surface of the lies when they are only a few
> mils thick!
>
> Unfortunately, lurking behind the thin veil of orchestrated PR that passes
> for mainstream news, we have the reality. Peeling back the tape we find
> that every one of Mr. Bush's actions since occupying the White House has
> been aimed at either inciting warfare, undermining our constitution or
> legislating pork barrel deficit budgeting scams that are guaranteed to
> bankrupt not just our financial futures, but those of many generations to
> come. Seems the only agendas that get his attention involve covering up
> for his criminal friends and paying off the fellow wealthy imperialists
> that bought the office for him.  The concerns of real working Americans
> don't even register as a butterfly sneeze on the radar of his radical
> right wing regime. If it is not an issue of expanding the Corporate
> Welfare state, padding the bank accounts of fellow billionaires, war
> mongering for the military industrial complex or spilling the blood of
> the innocent to pump up profits for his good ol' oil company buddies,
> your concerns about the massive injustices driving globalization won't
> even get the stock response of an evil, arrogant smirk.
>
> Someday it would be interesting to have a conservative or two in the
> federal government. Since President Carter's final State of the Union,
> all we've seen is an increasingly fascist parade of corporate puppets.
>
> peace
> (after justice)
> aaron
>
>
>
> > I wrote a very long letter to Bush in regards to his speech last night.
> > I include a topic of H1-B.  I'm sending you my comments so you can
> > coninue this by sending our people on Capitol Hill emails and snail
> > mails.  I send him this long letter via email and followed up with a
> > snail mailed copy.
> >
> > Here is what I wrote:
> > H1B:
> >
> > Man is this a sore subject when it comes to the tech industry.  I don't
> > have to elaborate but I hear many times a week when someone has been
> > laid off and H1-B's still exist.  This could be fact or fiction but a
> > question must be answered:
> >
> > "If *any* American IT workers are looking for jobs, Why do we allow
> > H1-B's to stay in America?"
> >
> > It goes back to America needs to help Americans and that includes
> > everyone.  You, CEO's, employees, and anyone else who dare calls them
> > self American.  To me it is treason against your fellow American when
> > you provide a job to a immigrant when there is an American standing in
> > line for that job.  Would you not agree?
> >
> > Bottom line:  From today until further notice,  The H1-B program is
> > suspended and all H1-B visas are revoked until unemployment levels go
> > back down to an acceptable level of 0.0001%.  Makes since does it not.
> >
> >
> > Please run with the ball and start the letters flowing out.
>
>
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