Just another rant

Someone poked me hard about why I was depressed about Bush staying in the White House and suggested I start blaming all the little things wrong on the fact that he was there. "Lose your car keys? Blame it on Bush!" Well sure, that would be good if I wanted to trivialize my feelings.

What I know is that I spent 3 of the last 4 years unemployed and now that I finally have a job, I'm making half of what I used to make. Only a 1/3 of the folks I know directly managed to maintain the same job they had for the entire 4 years. Most were laid off due to "budget cuts" or their job was moved overseas. About half of my unemployed friends have managed to find new jobs, but they are now making less than they were before.

I'm quite happy to blame that on Bush.

Our educational system is getting worse compared internationally. I do not think "no child left behind" will work- because it effectively ends up lowering our education down to the lowest common denominator, not raising it, because the funding to improve is simply not there.

I'm quite happy to blame that on Bush.

I am working now as a medical transcriptionist. I've been doing it only a few months, but if I had a dollar for every time I typed a report where a patient told the doc they could not afford their prescribed medication, I could probably vacation some place really nice for a really long time.

I'm quite happy to blame that on Bush.

And this whole blood for oil money thing in Iraq where there were no weapons of mass destruction and never were, and now we are losing weapons that are falling into the arms of folks willing to kill Americans in Iraq and in other places, and Osama bin Ladin is still out there... It frankly scares the shit out of me, because we are sowing seeds of hatred against us in the middle east and giving our enemies more reasons to hate our guts and plan more terrorist attacks.

I'm quite happy to blame that on Bush.

As far as the gay marriage issue is concerned, I believe that marriage is a sacrament and should be determined by the religion of those involved, and it's none of the state's business. There has to be a separation of Church and State on this issue and civil unions are the responsibility of the State. All of the legal language should be changed from "marriage" to "civil union" and I don't care if people want to have "civil unions" with people of the same sex or more than one person. I think someone having 2 mommies or daddies is better than only one, because being a single parent is damn hard work- and any single moms or dads out there have my deep respect.

For the mixing and confusion of Church and State, I'm quite happy to blame that on Bush.