A letter my Dad sent to Bu$h [View All]

[guitar man]

Dad is going to be 75 in a couple months. He and my mother grew up during the Great Depression. He is a "shoot from the hip" old bugger for sure. I thought y'all might enjoy reading this.



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To: [e-mail]
Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 11:47 PM
Subject: WHY????


Mr. President, I cannot understand why you persist in taking away from those
of us who have the least in this life. We working types have only one way to
make enough money to have anything extra in life and that is to learn a
skill or trade, join a union and participate in collective bargaining in
order to make the most we can out of our lot in life. Not everyone can sit
in an office and prop our feet up on a desk and figure out how to get rich
on the backs of those people out there doing the work without breaking a
sweat ourselves. And most of the people like me love to actually do hard
work and are satisfied at the end of the day with what we have produced as
well as being proud of it.

But I think you should take a little time to think about who it is that
really makes this world go 'round. Then perhaps you will stop trying to
destroy the only medium available to us to bargain for our share of the pie.
And stop trying to force us back into the age where we were standing outside
the gate waiting for someone to die or get fired in order to make a vacancy
so we could get a job at any price. It was pitiful back then and it is more
pitiful today.

Although I am retired on a Teamster pension and Social Security, I have
children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren who need a place in life
where they can also make a decent living. Too bad you never had to stand in
our boots. Perhaps you could better understand how detrimental what you are
doing really is.

Sincerely, J.. M......, a native born Texan