Make your vote count

To the editor,

"I have said for the last two years that things would pick up in '32. Why? Why, because it's an election year, and the Republicans always see to it that things look good on election years. They give us three bad years and one good one, but the good one is the voting year," Will Rogers said in October of 1931.

In this election year, things look good because we're told so every day by the so-called liberal media. Are things better for you? Not for me.

"What does prohibition amount to, if your neighbor's children are not eating?" Rogers asked in 1931.

Now we must ask: What does gay marriage amount to if 46 million Americans don't have health care?

Another Rogersism: "There is not an unemployed man in the country that hasn't contributed to the wealth of every millionaire in America."

It's time the millionaires and billionaires in America started pulling their weight. They don't need tax breaks, they need to quit moving to Bermuda to avoid paying any taxes! When you hear "values" spew from Mr. Bush's mouth you need to evaluate which values are valuable to you.

What happened when George W. Bush dumped his Harken stock for $848,560 just before it tanked? Contrary to his claims, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission did not clear him of fraud. The matter was swept aside by SEC Chief Robert Breeden, who was closer to the Bush family than "Kenny Boy" Lay in the front pew on Sunday morning.

The voters of 1932 ascertained that FDR was the right choice. In 2004, we need to vote against corporate corruption en masse to make certain all of our votes count this time.

Wanda L. LaCroix

Arlee