get an Email from once a week from a things called Charles' Brady good news gospel review . This week it had this article in it and I found it good. thought I would share .
It's Bush's Fault
Some things never change in political and social life. Finger pointing is always prevalent and the acceptance of responsibility is only a past and fleeting philosophy. How have we evolved into a so called God fearing civilized society where it is, never my fault, and finger pointing is the palatable mental salve of all problems.
Decades of the past have always had their pet phrases. "Thank God I'm a Country Boy". "The Devil Made Me Do It". "You Know You're A Redneck If", etc. These phrases all had their day in our social and economic lives.
Right now if a problem happens nationally or internationally, whether it's political, weather related, social or economic, the pet phrase of the day is, "it's Bush's Fault", and it seems to solve the problem and sets people at ease. When President Bush's term expires and he is no longer the focus of attention, this phrase too will pass. People will forget the good and the bad and someone else will be blamed for all the world's problems.
The fact remains there is something that never seems to change in this country. And that is that Busch and his Bud's, Miller, Heineken, Corona, Guinness and Michelob, to name a few, spread more death, mayhem and destruction than any one thing known to man.
The abuse of drinking kills more people, destroys more property, leaves more people homeless, fills more jails and hospitals, breaks up more marriages and in general causes more social distress than all the wars put together. But where is the outcry of, "it's Busch and his Bud's fault"?
Statistics indicate that every 22 minutes someone dies in an alcohol-related motor vehicle accident in this country. That, my friend, is over 23,000 deaths per year. Statistics also state that over 10% of these deaths are teenagers. But even this is everyone else's fault but Busch and his Bud's. Billions of dollars annually are either spent or lost because of a nationwide obsession for the consumption of beer and alcohol.
We are pacified into a social sleep by terms of, "drink sensibly", "don't drink and drive", "have a designated driver", and "alcoholism is a disease". As a result it is everyone else's fault but Busch and his Bud's and everyone gets sued but Busch and his Bud's.
People are laying in streets, marching, spending millions of dollars in tax payer's money, and non-profit raised monies, to stand up and say, "It's Bush's fault".
Since the Iraqi war began approximately 4 years ago, a little over 3,000 soldiers have died as a result of the war and the noble cause of defending this Great Nation against terrorism. And I might add, 3,000 too many. However, terrorism was happening worldwide and in this country, long before Bush went into office. But yet it is Bush's fault.
If statistics are true, during this same 4 year period, over 92,000 have died as a result of drunk driving, over 9,200 of these being teenagers. What noble cause was involved in this? Did these teenagers driving under the influence of alcohol die for a purpose? Did this great nation profit or become stronger as a result of these deaths? Ask any parent of a teenage boy or girl killed in an alcohol related accident if their lives were improved by such an accident. As I see it, the only ones that profited by these teenager deaths were greedy attorneys and the beer industry.
So where is the public outcry? Where is the self centered politician spitting out their venom? And where is the indignant taxpayer standing on a street corner saying, "It's Busch and his Bud's fault"?
Have we as a society become so intoxicated, by the political parasites of our time, that we no longer have the ability to think for ourselves? How long can we stand, as a Nation under God, holding a Busch in one hand while holding a sign in the other hand stating "It's Bush's fault"?
This precious gift The United States of America, bequeathed to you by my ancestors, started a downhill freefall before Bush was ever thought of. We as a nation better wake up to the fact that, "A nation divided against itself cannot stand".
Hopefully, we as citizens still have the common sense to understand this, because past history shows that our elected officials will never have the mental capacity to understand it.
Melvin Klaudt
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Melvin Klaudt – is a Native American from Fort Berthold Indian Reservation, North Dakota, the administrator of the Klaudt Indian Memorial Foundation, www.klaudtmemorial.com , writes columns for newspapers, Indian Magazines and also contributes information to internet news groups . He can be reached at, uncivilized@mindspring.com
