I'm sorry to tell you that it was not former president Clinton "who made up the whole 'ownership society' thing which Bush agreed with." Writings from the Cato Institute, in this case, tell us that "The concept of "ownership society" has been embraced since the time of Aristotle and has found adherents among such thinkers as Thomas Aquinas, John Locke, and most pertinent to today's debate, the American Founders. The central tenet of the ownership society is that we tend to take best care of the things we own, and through which we exercise our liberty; property rights inspire people to act responsibly, to treat one another with dignity and respect, and to create wealth for themselves and others. In today's political debate, the concept of the "ownership society" is most applicable in three areas of public policy: Social Security, health care, and education." It is a strong and philosophically sound concept and most certainly not one that George H.W. Bush or George W. Bush could have conceived. While the elder may be more intelligent than the son, together they have the I.Q. of a dog tick.

As to adding or deleting anything on the geodesic wheel of misfortune, the only exception I might take involves the Bankruptcy law changes. I don't see the harm in expanding upon the laws and making those that can and will be able to re-pay their debts at a later time to do so. They have not taken away the chapter 7 rights of an individual to clean the slate, as it were, under certain circumstances.

As to my overall view of George W. Bush I can only say that the weapons of mass destruction lie within him and not in Iraq as we all now know. He blamed his faulty intelligence people for that one which only serves to cement my belief in the trickle down theory. He lied over and over again to get us into a war we fell for because of 9/11 and what do we have to show for it all? One hung dictator and over 33,000 casualties including in excess of 4,000 deaths. And then came Afghanistan...