Pitiful Veto Threat

Dear editor:
The Associated Press has reported that President Bush warned Congress on Saturday, June 16, 2007, that he will use his veto power to stop runaway government spending. In his radio address Bush said, “The American people do not want to return to the days of tax and spend policies.” If it wasn’t so sad, this would be a very funny statement. This from the biggest spender of all time.

Mr. Bush, the man who has wasted over a half of a trillion dollars for his pre-emptive war in Iraq based upon secretly hidden bad information, poor judgment, and self serving reasoning by him and his neo-con associates (with no end in sight,) has the unabashed gall to mock domestically needed spending. The man with the largest White House redundant staffing in history for both him and his vice-president, who created new top level agencies and czars with staffs that needed new buildings, and has created an unbelievable federal deficit that our grandchildren and great-grandchildren, etc, will have to pay off somehow, chooses once again to verbally abuse anyone who disagrees with him. Now I’m waiting for Mr. Cheney to come out and state that anyone who disagrees with the White House position on spending is unpatriotic and brings comfort to our enemies, which, thanks to the actions of our president, have greatly increased in the past six years.

The president should remember that charity begins at home.