Cape Karen
. . . well, Mr. Bush did include the word "environment" in his address. But, it wasn't about preserving endangered species, or even about the problem of global warming; it came at the end of a sentence about the billions and trillons of dollars he will be asking Congress to allocate to try and develop better hybrid automobiles by the year 2025.
And, I almost choked when he said, with a straight face, "We've become addicted to foreign oil." Gasp! Who has become addicted to foreign oil? (Can't you just envision a motorcade of these little Nissan hybrids winding their way through the streets of D.C.?)
I loved the line from commentator, Mayor Tim Kaine (D-VA), when he said: ". . . we don't ask or expect our children to pay the family mortgage. . . " referring to who will end up paying for all these lofty plans our President outlined in his speech. Everything was about money. Money this country does not have. The budget is busted! Everything President Clinton accomplished during his term in office to put us in the black has been undone by this President ~ in record time ~ and in an unprecedented fashion!
That's all his speech was about - spending, spending and spending some more ~ like a slap-happy drunken sailor using a stolen credit card. Obviously, this man has no concept, or concern, about the average American family. He is so far removed from our reality, that we might as well be living on a distant planet.
Aliens have landed; low and middle-income American citizens are the 'aliens' in this country today.
As Mayor Kaine pointed out so succinctly, the federal failures of this administration have been unlike anything we have ever seen in our lifetime, and we will pay the price for their blunders and their poor judgements for years and years to come. I don't know who will inherit this mess and become our next President ~ but it better be someone with a good grasp of how to restore and balance a federal budget ~ without draining the pockets of the already drained.
Canada is looking really attractive these days. . . too bad it's so darn cold up there!