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:: 11.11.2003 ::
I am feeling very angry today. I have been feeling more angry over the past 3 years, of course, but I have definitely felt more angry lately. Maybe because I've been reading a lot of Mother Jones, and most of what I've read in MoJo lately about the state of our nation makes me angry.
In last month's issue, there was a table listing bad news (mass layoffs, asbestos in home insulation, longterm budget shortfalls, an EPA report linking global warming to human activity), the Bush administration's reaction to the bad news (which was generally to hide it), and the fallout from their efforts. There was an article about the looting of Iraq's priceless and ancient archeological sites, unhindered by American forces; another about the administration's covert attacks on the environment, including appointing industry lobbyists to environmental regulatory positions.
This month's issue has pissed me off even more: "Washington insiders and their corporate clients are lining up to cash in on the world's biggest reconstruction project"; the Pentagon's ongoing refusal to clean up toxic sites, and newly energized attempts to exempt itself completely from such responsibilties; a profile of the former owner of a meatpacking plant that the USDA blamed for E. coli outbreaks that were actually the fault of a huge, self-regulated slaughter factory; "Earlier this year, after Bush slashed taxes to the richest Americans, his Department of Education issued a regulation cutting the amount that college students can deduct from state and local taxes under the financial-aid elegibility formula"; "The Christians do a lot of things the state used to do [for inmates], like vocational programs, but now they're only for believers." I could go on.
:: Deb 10:25 AM :: permalink ::
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