Reply #10: Mr. H agrees with you there: we have a consumer-based economy. It was the crass way...

[Hekate]

...that Bush framed it that made me both sick and furious. It was crass, it was patronizing, it was the opposite of what we needed to hear from our president. There was nothing about shared courage, nothing about shared sacrifice.

Consume? I'll give him consume: buy solar panels. Bush could have led the way by slapping solar panels on every government building in the country, and by making them affordable for the average citizen of this nation. Instead we were told to buy plastic sheeting and duct tape, and to cower in our homes.

But we're not "citizens", we're "consumers" -- and this isn't a "nation", it's "the homeland", a racially-loaded term if there ever was one.

Btw, I quote my husband because I respect his knowledge-based opinion on the economy. He despises Bush, too

Hekate