...getting our sustenance from lovemaking.

I think the George Bush presidency has destroyed America. Or at least destroyed the American middle class. Which was always the essence of the American dream. To make us people more or less in the middle relatively comfortable. Relatively well off in the economic sense. Able to afford the necessities of life. What I see happening is the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer. A widening gap between the rich and the poor. And that’s stretching the middle class thinner and thinner. Having to survive on less and less. Seems to me that George Bush’s policies, supported so staunchly by his conservative Republican allies, will eventually bankrupt America. With senseless and cost prohibitive war. With spending for national defense. Already, we spend more on defending ourselves against mythical enemies than all the other nations in the world. The George Bushians have in less than 8 years taken America from a nation with a budget surplus to trillion dollar deficits. Debts that we middle class Americans will be paying for generations to come. At the expense of the basic necessities of life. We’ll have to learn to live on less and less to make up for it all. Only the rich will thrive. Because they have so much wealth, that even when much of it is siphoned off, they’ll still be relatively rich. At least from a materialist point of view. I guess what we increasingly poor middle class Americans will have to learn is to live second class and third class. But maybe in the long run, that will do us much good. We’ll have to become better lovers. That will be our consolation. To be able to retreat to our hovels/cocoons at night. And console each other…getting our sustenance from lovemaking. –Jim Broede