America the Not So Beautiful

Dear Editor,
    Maybe the president needs to clean the White House windows to get a better view of Middle America. Eleven million Americans are out of work, while thousands have lost their homes to foreclosure. Hundreds of jobs are being exported to cheaper labor overseas. Our children's education has taken a back seat to the net profits of the corporate sector. Daily living expenses continue to skyrocket! Toll roads are replacing free roads to enable increased profiteering. American soldiers continue to die daily in Iraq and Afghanistan, while our veterans' needs are not being met. America has become an oppressive nation to its own people. Money begets more money, while the poor spiral down into the man-made muck called poverty. There's no good reason why all Americans can't share in America's fortune – except for one culprit, greed! Never has an American president appeared so disassociated with the harsh realities of the majority of the American people. Suddenly, "America the Beautiful" doesn't look so pretty any more.