An Open Letter to President George W Bush

President Bush:
Now that you have actually been elected, (at least we think so, as all the votes have not yet been counted) I will acknowledge that you are actually the President of the United States. In exchange I ask of you a few things....

1) You have to actually BE a conservative if you want to claim you are one. By this I mean, you cannot continue to spend like a drunken sailor who just returned from a 6 month rotation at sea and expect us to believe you are not a New Hampshire Liberal(I know you were born there and it is a lot to overcome). Some of us are NOT swayed by your rhetoric and have noticed your ability to take historically large surpluses and change them into historically large deficits in less than a year. The questions is: Are you capable of doing the opposite?

2) You have to STOP cutting taxes if you do not also CUT spending. I am all for lower taxes to get the economy on track, but you also must take into acount the fact that while cutting overall revenue by 500 billion dollars per year you have also increased spending at a rate of 200 billion per year(excuse my math... I am rounding so do not pick me out of context and treat me like I am an idiot). This is simply unacceptable. If you believe the American people need the things we are spending government money to provide, then you have to be willing to ask them to pay for it. If you do not, then don't. You have practiced during the last 4 years what your astute father in 1980 called "Voodoo Economics". It was one of his most memorable lines, and one of his most ACCURATE lines.

3) We need a balance of power in Washington. If you have a problem with the spending in a bill, show some guts and VETO it. You have been occupying the office of President for 4 years and not vetoed a SINGLE BILL. That is the longest stretch of any president in history, NO president has ever completed a term in office without vetoing a bill. You will be the first, so between now and January 20th, 2005 veto something. Just let us know that you MIGHT have the actual capability to not be the rubber stamp for a congress which has gone on a TREMENDOUS spending spree during a recession while cutting taxes.

Why do I focus so much on the budget and not mention any other issues? Because if the budget is out of whack, so it everything else. Job losses, High Poverty rates , Increased Drug use, Increased Crime, Abortion Rates, Murders, Wars, Terrorism... these things all start for economic reasons. You are the steward of our economy which is only bolstered by balance.

A balanced budget comes from a balance of power. Show us there are still checks and balances in the United States government and we will show you an economic powerhouse which is unrivaled in the history of the world.

Thanks for your time...

Your fellow citizen....
Con Delirios