Friends in High Places

President Bush is barely eight months in office and he has turned the country from eight years of prosperity into deficit. He has succeeded in that short period of time in enriching his campaign donors through his so-called tax rebates. And he still has more than three years to repay his friends by way of government contracts, mostly from military defense contracts.

No wonder he has been fighting tooth and nail to increase the defense budget vis-a-vis the other needs of the poor. The poor can’t give him anything, anyway, in return. They don’t even bother to vote, so why be concerned with their welfare?

Romeo P. Torres

El Monte