| February 22, 2006 This
message was just sent to the folks in Washington, using congress.org:
Concerning the impending sale of our ports: President
Bush, I am disappointed; I thought better of you.
To the rest of the recipients of this email, I encourage you to do
everything necessary to stop the sale.
I have long said that I have every confidence in our
system of government, but little or no confidence in some of those running
it. This action once more
confirms my opinion. The
cabinet secretaries involved in the congressionally mandated review of
this sale seem to have risen to the level of incompetence and thereby
proved the Peter Principle.
Secretary Snow indicated that failure to approve the
sale would send a terrible message that foreign investment is not welcome
from some countries. Where is
it written that all U.S. assets are up for sale in the first place? Isn't it enough that the taxpayers get bilked annually for
bargain-basement sales and leases of publicly-held assets to U.S.
corporations? Do we have to
put our major ports and our security on the block as well?
Secretary Gutierrez claims we are not relinquishing
security of our ports, and that such assertions generate an instant
emotional reaction. He's
right about the instant reaction, but it's interesting that the reaction
of so many in Congress and elsewhere seems to disagree so strongly with
the Secretary.
It is getting harder and harder to fathom the
bureaucratic logic that spawns these travesties.
I am a conservative Independent.
I vote for the person, not the party -- and the last few elections
many of those votes were cast for Republicans.
I'd like to think those votes were not cast in error, but this
Administration is sorely trying my patience as a voting citizen of this
country.
|
