🚀 go-pugleaf

The excerpt from the open letter quoted below says it better than I ever 
could. I don't know where the original comes from but you can read the 
whole thing at 
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/11/07/blue_state_to_reds/>.

> An open letter to the Red-State victors:
> 
> With hard work and superb organization, you have triumphed over John
> Kerry and the forces of Blue-state paternalism. Congratulations. The
> multinational corporations that hold you in bondage remain free to
> profit off your sweat nearly tax free, while their overpaid senior
> execs continue to pay a pittance in personal income tax.
> 
> Your primary and secondary schools will continue to turn out
> third-rate pupils with limited opportunities, while you enjoy the
> satisfaction of making it on your own without health care when a
> catastrophic illness bankrupts your family.
> 
> Your agricultural universities will continue issuing Ph.D.s in
> football, and bogus Protestant Evangelical and Fundamentalist
> theology, and how to jerk off a bull safely. Your children will learn
> to borrow enough money to erect chicken houses so that they, like you,
> can take custody -- not possession, but custody -- of Tyson's chicks,
> feed them, rear them, assume losses from those that fail to thrive,
> and in the end earn just enough money to service their endless debt,
> and realize a profit of perhaps $12K a year. Your bank thanks you;
> Tyson thanks you; George W. Bush thanks you; and I thank you.
> 
> You can continue sending your sons to die in Iraq on a fool's errand.
> When you bury them, you can console yourselves with Bush's platitudes
> about their heroic mission to defend America from weapons of mass
> destruction.
> 
> You can savor the deficit spending that stimulates commerce today, but
> will cripple the US economy in ten or fifteen years' time when the
> bills come due with interest. Perhaps a Democrat will be in office at
> that time, who can be blamed for W's delayed economic fiasco.
> 
> You can continue believing, as Republican Party brainwashing has
> persuaded you, that we, your neighbors, are your enemies. You can
> believe that we have no morals; that we pimp out our teenage daughters
> for Internet porn; that we eat babies; that we are all gay; that we
> are cowards on the battlefield; and that we want to run your lives and
> give you AIDS.
> 
> Here's a clue: we are not your enemies; we are your countrymen. Your
> enemies are the greedy multinationals that the Republican Party bends
> over backwards to accommodate. Incidentally, most of them are based in
> Blue states, as are their Republican owners and major shareholders.
> 
> Here in the Blue States, Democrats and Republicans alike generate the
> lion's share of America's wealth, although it is you Reds who provide
> the lion's share of the stoop labor. You are our Mexicans, so to
> speak. We could not have accomplished the economic miracle that is
> America without your willing capitulation to a system that lies to you
> and fucks you over at every turn.

Go to <http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/11/07/blue_state_to_reds/> to 
read the whole thing.

Paul