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The Emperor Has No Clothes

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by Robert Millman

On inauguration day, I protest the policies and record of George W. Bush for the following reasons:

• The Iraq war was based on unfounded and now patently false claims of an imminent threat.
• Afghanistan’s President Karzai is essentially the Mayor of Kabul and Afghanistan is now a Narco-State run by regional warlords.
• Bush environmental policies are all designed to benefit the business interests of polluters.
• The permanent tax cuts disproportionately favor the wealthy and have been accompanied by the largest federal deficits in American history.
• No child left behind has had the opposite effect and encourages more regulation, more testing, more Federal control, and more cheating on the part of schools trying to meet Federal requirements at any cost.
• The President’s plan to "save" Social Security calls for borrowing one trillion dollars. He claims this will help Americans save. Borrowing is not the same as saving, ask anyone.

In sum, President Bush’s policies are based on deception, a bait and switch marketing of ideology that damages United States citizens.

Remembering a childhood fable that now seems appropriate, I am here to declare on Inauguration Day that THE EMPORER HAS NO CLOTHES.

Robert Millman
Glenville, NY

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