Bruno Corry, Published in Home News & Tribune - Central Jersey on 03/1/05

George W. Bush's recent cutbacks to the poor, his onslaught on Social Security and the revision of laws that protect the average citizen shows what he really is — the slave of the corporations and greedy 1 percent who presently have the upper hand in our country.

Bush will not yield on tax cuts to the rich, even though we face enormous deficits. Instead, he attacks Social Security and is ready to
auction it off to the highest bidder — the casinos of Wall Street.

In a minimal effort to balance the budget, he cuts programs to those who need them the most while making it more difficult for average citizens to protect themselves from corporate negligence and greed, i.e., his "tort reform" law.

He does all this while spouting "freedom is on the march" and he continues to spend a billion bucks a week on a war whose justification
shifted from weapons of mass destruction, to Iraqi liberation, to making the world safe for democracy, saying very little about the 100,000 innocent Iraqis and the 1,500 American soldiers who died for this neo-conservative fabrication.

Now he's trying to repair the diplomatic damage his policies have had on the rest of the world but continues to make faux pas such as mistaking Slovakia for "Slovania" in front of a hall full of Slovakians. Clearly, Bush is in way over his head. Unfortunately, only the rest of world gets it.

Recent polls, however, show that pocketbook issues such as Social Security are starting to tarnish and erode Bush's false political persona.