The Other War

In payback to fundamentalists for their vote, Bush Republicans are substituting abstinence-only sex education fraught with disinformation for fact-based programs. Then they are restricting access to abortion, while at the same time withdrawing Medicaid coverage. Soon, working people will have to resort to back alley abortions, but Bush family and friends will still have access, just as they have always had in the past. 

This is just another shot in the class war that Reagan/Bush/Clinton/Bush have waged against the average person. It can be added to tougher bankruptcy laws, the free reign credit card companies and utilities now have to raise rates on consumers, and a new lending law that will slam borrowers with hidden fees and enormous pre-payment penalties.

It goes along with shifting the burden for healthcare costs onto the individual, the ludicrously low minimum wage, the attempt to dismantle social security, unsupportable tax breaks for the wealthy, restricting the right to sue, and on and on.

Many working people voted for the Philips-Exeter prep-school cowboy in the last election. He won them over by asking for a frivolous constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage. That showed he had down-home moral values. Tragically, people voted against the economic and social interests of their own families because Karl Rove was able to draw their focus to this sensational wedge issue and away from the ongoing assault on working families.