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I've been very happy with President Bush until tonight. It seemed in his speech that he forgot to include the people who really make this country great - the capitalists. Personally, I don't care if some 3rd world country hates our guts because we have earned more material things for ourselves and is jealous of us because we produce and make money. Technology, science, innovation, and capitalism make us great. That is what the terrorists were attacking when they hit the World Trade Center. President Bush is encouraging us to go into service jobs and volunteer in service positions. We already have 80% of our citizens in service professions - what we need to encourage are more producers and innovators. As it is, you go into any science library on a college campus and 1/2 the students are foreigners. Instead of importing all of our brain power, (with dubious consequences of giving terrorists an easy in into our country, usually with a PAID felowship no less) we should be encouraging more Americans to go into production, science, and industry. We should not be ashamed of our materialism, our ability to make money, or our innovation. That is why the smartest immigrants want to come here - for their opportunities to make more money and live a better life. I think this line of thinking was a serious ommision from Bush's speech tonight. But we should be cheering Wall Street bankers who went back to work as much (or more than) anyone else, IMHO. Also, don't hold your breath waiting for me to make friends with Muslims. The head of the Islamic group in my city has publicly stated in the papers that he Doesn't think September 11th was terrorism, and at the eastern college I went to all the Nation of Islam muslims used to watch Farakan videos preaching genocide of white women and burying handicapped people alive. So I'll pass thanks!

Since one of the points of this speech was that we are about more than making money, I don't think capitalism was the topic of the evening. Sorry you were disappointed.

I don't care if some third world countrymen hate us either. But, I think you forget that they are trying to kill us - all of us. That's what I care about, and I'm glad that President Bush cares about it too!