And you thought you’d already given. We provide a home for millions of illegal immigrants the Bush Administration is trying feverishly to legitimize as instant citizens (they do menial jobs us fat slobs won’t do), and despite giveaway programs like GATT and NAFTA, shipping American jobs overseas, it isn’t enough.

Now, we’ve got to pay for what amounts to protection money. They’ll terrorize us if we don’t.

I think that’s called blackmail.

Dead ex-President Lyndon Johnson, this is your fault. You started the Great Society welfare state. Now, it’s spreading to become a welfare world. In fairness, Bush is promoting it too (why do Republicans become liberals as soon as they’re elected?)

What would you do with your own money anyway, except spend it.

By the way, we’re building up our enemies, these terrorists, by calling them terrorists. The terminology is all wrong. Calling them terrorists makes it sound as though we’re the only ones who can be terrorized. What if we terrorize them. Two can play that game.

I think we should call them “vermin,” or some name more suitable for the gutless yellow nature of their crimes, bombing innocent, unarmed people.

We should shame them more, and we’re not doing it by calling them terrorists.

Bush calls them “evil,” but that’s not good enough.

In Japan, they know how to use shame. If you’re Japanese, and you steal for example, and get caught, the local butcher in your neighborhood won’t serve you. Your neighbors won’t talk to you. You’re an outcast among your own kind. Strong deterrents.

The war on terror isn’t a war in the conventional sense, even though troops are being used and casualties have been suffered. It’s more a police action, chasing bands of bedraggled killers from cave to cave. Calling it a police action is not only more accurate, but indicates the enemy are criminals, which they are.

Calling it a war seems to legitimize the atrocities committed, hinting that our enemies must have some rights as prisoners of war.

For that matter, no president in recent history has had the guts to call gang behavior in our own country for what it is, a gutless, coward sonofabitch who deals drugs and shoots some unarmed kid standing at a street corner in the back. Gang members are domestic terrorists.

The president could shame these people by calling them “yellow-bellies,” but he won’t. It isn’t politically correct to tell the truth.

We need to be more like Japan.

You know why we won’t do it. Honor, personal honor, is no longer an important factor of American life.