We
need to start thinking about the children and their children when we
look at political issues today. The American nation is making a series
of dramatically important political decisions that will impact our
children and future generations. We need to put the real world needs
over private greed and partisan politics. We need to put the needs of
the children first. They are the future American nation!
Our
current Republican dominated government is piling huge debts and
financial burdens on the backs of our children and future generations.
The Bush Republican tax cuts going to their wealthy financial backers
needs to go back into the federal treasury. Our children do not need
to be stuck with the costs of Republican political pay-offs.
Our
children and future generations do not need to be paying for the costs
in blood or tax money for the failures of the Bush Republican approach
in Iraq and Afghanistan. What price will the American nation pay in
blood for the diverting of resources from the hunt for Bin Laden to a
needless war in Iraq? How many new terrorists are being trained in
their evil arts in the Iraqi conflict, today? Are we going to be
seeing American youths dying in the Middle East for generations to
come? Will our children be paying interest on the massive war and
rebuilding debt?
Our
children are growing up in a world where American citizens have lost
many of the civil liberties guaranteed in the Bill of Rights to the US
Constitution. The falsely namedPatriot
Act lays the legal groundwork for a police state in America. You can
be jailed without access to a lawyer. The government does not have to
inform your family or the media. You may never be permitted to see a
judge. You can be jailed for as long as the government desires. In
some cases, should you leave the United States, the government claims
the right to kill you. Is this the kind of legal system that we want
to leave to our children? Our parents handed us a free country ruled
by a system of laws and not by the whim of government officeholders.
We
need to do better for the children.
Written
by Stephen Crockett and Al Lawrence (hosts of Democratic Talk Radio http://www.DemocraticTalkRadio.com
). Send mail to: 7A Planville Drive, Fayetteville, TN 37334. Reach
them by phone at 1-931-438-1500.
