You didn't get mad when the Supreme Court stopped a legal recount and selected a President.

You didn't get mad when Cheney allowed energy company officials to dictate energy policy.

You didn't get mad when the habeas corpus-killing Patriot Act was passed. You didn't get mad when we illegally invaded a country that posed no threat to us.

You didn't get mad when we spent over 600 billion dollars (and counting) on said illegal war, or when the U.S. death count rose over 3,000.

You didn't get mad when over 10 billion dollars vanished into thin air in Iraq.

You didn't get mad when you found out we were torturing people.

You didn't get mad when it came out that the government was illegally wiretapping Americans.

You didn't get mad when Bush didn't even try to catch Osama Bin Laden in Tora Bora.

You didn't get mad when you saw the disgusting conditions at Walter Reed.

You didn't get mad when you found out thousands of Iraq/Afghanistan veterans were destitute and homeless.

You didn't get mad when we let a major U.S. city drown.

You didn't get mad when we gave a 900 billion dollar tax break to the rich.

You didn't get mad when the man who is now the Minority Leader distributed tobacco lobbyist checks on the floor of the House of Representatives.

You didn't get mad when a covert CIA operative was illegally outed.

You didn't get mad when, via reconciliation, a trillion of our tax dollars were redirected to insurance companies for Medicare Advantage, which costs over 20 percent more for basically the same services that Medicare provides.

You didn't get mad when the deficit hit the trillion dollar mark, and our debt hit the thirteen trillion dollar mark.

You finally got mad when the government decided that every American has the right to see a doctor. Yes, illegal wars, lies, corruption, torture, stealing your tax dollars to make the rich richer, are all okay with you, but helping other Americans, Oh, Hell no ... and now you're mad!

Slightly different versions of this text exist on the internet. This one is from the May issue of PIQUE