Letter: Incompetent Bush will ruin United States

Thursday, Sept. 6, 2001 | 9:36 a.m.

Eight years of relative peace and prosperity, very good economy, consumer confidences at an all-time high, national debt and budget deficit improving steadily, Social Security and Medicare safe and sound, environmental protection, and even a modest "rainy day" fund known as a "surplus" -- a prudent and intelligent safeguard. Everything looked brighter and rosier each day.

Thank you, President Clinton, and God bless you. We owe you a debt of gratitude.

Eight months later? The surplus has largely disappeared due to a so-called "tax cut" and refund benefitting only the already wealthy. Social Security and Medicare funds are about to be ransacked again, the environment is being attacked with a vengeance, the stock market is dropping faster than that proverbial hot potato. A recession, more likely a depression, is looming on the horizon among countless other disasters -- in eight short months!

We can even now understand how our ancestors had suffered under Herbert Hoover's short, disastrous reign before being rescued by FDR.

These unhappy states of affairs are far from being accidental. If the Republican lame excuses for W's obvious incompetence were not pathetic in this serious situation, they would be highly humorous.

If President Clinton suffered humiliation and attempted impeachment by the Republicans over a matter strictly between himself and his wife, and which certainly had nothing to do with his superior leadership, then shouldn't it follow that impeachment should definitely be an option in the case of this president's ruination of an entire nation -- the United States?

Otherwise -- if only eight months in office has resulted in such chaos, can anyone imagine what over three more years of this reckless incompetence would bring to our country?

RUTH DI MAGGIO