[Born in a Rage]

I understand what you're saying. Nobody is perfect, but the president has power that comes with the responsibility of keeping the people in power - does that make sense? By the people, for the people....

When I see these massive education, medicare, CFR bills, and Patriot Acts; I'm seeing power taken away from the people on a state, local, and grassroots level and that bothers me.

Bogging down educaters with so much paperwork they hardly have time to teach; making a law which prohibits prescription prices from going down; making it so local groups can't collect money to air a commercial to expouse their grievances against the government or it's representatives; having millions of ordinary peoples one-hundred dollar checks being tracked and 'certain' information looked over by peeping government workers....there is something wrong with this picture.

It's just not right.

As this guy working at a 7-11 said to me one day, sadly shaking his head, "This whole damn country is just going to s***."

[Wait4Truth]

Personally, I am FOR the Patriot Act. I'm tired of hearing about how all our civil liberties have disappeared. That's a crock. Second, Bush has often talked about the massive amount of paperwork that schools have to deal with and that it is wrong. He is not to blame for that. That was in place long before he came to office. He is trying to remove the massive amounts of paperwork that small businesses have to deal with, too. I just think some of your assumptions are wrong and I have the feeling that you are not a supporter of this president to begin with. I don't agree with some of the other things you said, either, but it is getting late and we can discuss it another day.