The Politics of "Trust Me".....


When it comes to anti-terrorism, Bush & Company say, “trust me.”
In my circles, you acquire trust with success. It is not something you demand.
With Bush&Company, you’re a damned fool if you don’t check for yourself whether they deliver what they promise…
If trust me means trust me to do what is right on New Orleans, they have failed.
If trust me is predicated on our measures to track down bin Laden, they have failed. If trust is based on our success in Iraq, we have to another failure to point to.

So why should we trust them? Why would any sane person trust them?

Everything they touch, they seem to screw up big-time….

Now we are being told that Homeland Security should be trusted.

Why?

Have they made us any safer?

Are our own borders any more secure than before Homeland Security?

What the Hell is Homeland Security except a bigger bureaucracy than we had before and that one didn’t work!...

Are they so self-possessed that they think WE ARE FOOLS???....

Are our first responders better able to communicate among themselves?

No!

What we have seen is taxpayer money dolled out to do what?

Buy winter coats for dogs, air conditioning for garbage trucks, and other nonessentials.

This sure does build trust!...

Are we protected in the event a dirty bomb is set off in every American city? Or do we simply retreat into the Dark Ages?

What we’ve heard is depressing enough.

What has Bush done in his life that has not been handed to him?

He has cheated the Guard and called it a military career.

He conducted insider trading with his oil company and defrauded those who trusted him…

His father’s friends got him into baseball the same way they got him into government….

What has this man done in his entire life that should make us trust him…

Why should we trust him when it comes to our own security?

Here’s what we do know:

We know that 300 metric tons of enriched nuclear materials are missing and presumably in the hands of terrorists.

We know that we were willing to lease our ports to other Sunnis….

We know that our holier than thou White House execs are in bed with the enemy (witness the Carlyle Group)….

WE KNOW THAT we do not inspect the incoming container shipments…

WE KNOW That we don’t even know who works down in the ports…

WE KNOW that we have lost track of millions upon millions of illegal immigrants….

Should that make us feel safer?

Should that contribute to making us trust those who make decisions for us that have cost 25,000 seriously wounded and thousands dead (THEY DON’T GIVE US THE TRUE COUNTS…)

Just tell us what is being done.

No, you don’t have to give away your most esoteric secrets, but let us know what’s going on. Keep us n the loop; otherwise, we might not believe a damned thing you are saying…

Even if push comes to shove, it’s time for oversight.





It is time that our representatives demand these government agencies start telling us what they are doing for the money.

It’s time to know whether we are safe or not.

Until that is done, I am going to presume the worst.

Based on past experience, that would not be such a bad idea.

Les Aaron