Letter: Rights eroding under Bush rule

Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2004 | 9:09 a.m.

The medical care health providers increased their premiums 26 percent to 35 percent for 2004 without any complaints or questions from the White House, the Congress, the media or the American people.

Republicans control all three branches of the federal government and they allow these questionable business practices without any investigations.

The American people are so enamored with this un-elected president despite all his failings that they refuse to see that their constitutional rights are eroding before their very eyes. This administration has used 9-11 as a launching pad to imbed fear in all of us while advancing its political agenda. You can believe that the agenda is not to the advantage of the middle class or the poor.

We only have ourselves to blame when we allow the top 5 percent of the people to control the lives of the rest of us. The young men and women who are fighting and dying in the Bush-contrived war are not coming from that ruling class. They are our sons and daughters fighting and dying for the benefit of the wealthy, because in our hearts of hearts we know that this war has nothing to do with our freedom!

JAMES EPPERSON