Bush Does Socialism - BAD!!!

[Corno Dolce]

Finally, an insightful analysis of failed macroeconomic policy:

http://mises.org/story/3157

[methodistgirl]

I noticed that! The first four years he did a great job. Now since he
has had his last four he has really flubbed his dub. I also have come to
the conclusion that Sept,11 was a put up deal. I believe this terrorist
attack was a paid job instead of what it seemed to be at first. Our
economy was about to go bust and someone needed an excuse. Of
course the stock market took a nose dive until we started the war in
Iraq. I still think there could have been a better way to get these two
guys without war breaking out. Another fight was all we needed!
judy tooley

[drummergirlamie]

Sept. 11th. was among other things, a very convenient excuse to put all beneath the federal government hierachy and conformant power elite under greater magnification. Hence, The Patriot Act.

[Krummhorn]

I noticed that! The first four years he did a great job. Now since he has had his last four he has really flubbed his dub . . .
judy tooley

Quite true, but let us not forget Bill Clinton who had sex with a girl in the Oval Office ... his last four years weren't any more or less delightful than our present situation in many ways.

Interesting how soon we forget the past ... soon the present presidential history will be in the past and we can then start picking on the next guy or gal.

Got to remember too, that the current president is rather controlled by whichever party has control in the Senate and Congress. If all the Democrats are against the Republican president (and vice versa) the one sitting in the oval office rather has his or her hands tied.

Ok, Bush is no good in the White house, but neither was Clinton ... thank goodness we escaped another Clinton being nominated on the ticket for Veep.

[Corno Dolce]

Aloha Grand Master Krummhorn,

Amen brother!!! I voted early yesterday(absentee voting) and man, did it ever feel so good...

Cheerio,

CD

[Muza]

I agree with a lot of what you are saying Krummhorn.

And Corno, I agree - it feels good. I was really bummed when I found out Im not gonna get to vote this year ;(. I just moved to a different area, and I think I may have mistyped my new address on the registration form ;(;(;( BIG FAT BUMMER!

[Contratrombone64]

Whatever is good or bad about a politician or political party, you can always rely on one certainty. The Press will always misquote, mudrake, twist and pervert information just for the sake of headlines and selling their stories.

[Corno Dolce]

Hooyah Br. CT64 - After awhile, it is very easy to see which print and AV-media are like Pravda, Izvestiya, and Komsomolyets.

[Krummhorn]

Right on CT64,

The Press has gotten so bad lately that the public is now more confused than ever ... but it sells copy, for sure ... their bottom line. I can do without it.

[drummergirlamie]

I've taken it with a grain of salt for years now, but Headline News seems consistantly the worst in that aspect. They're all about that boo-hoo, doom n' gloom. Hell, if yu think about it, Headline's more consistantly gothic than Marilyn Manson.

[Sylvie Pacey]

It really get me when Giant newspaper headlines report things which are untrue and the resultant apology appears tucked away in a small insignificant box. They don't care at all that perhaps people's lives are ruined maybe for a long time.

[John Watt]

As a Canadian of Scottish Highland descent, please, let me comment on what news is known to me. I dabble as a newspaper reporter, music columnist, mayoral candidate, Aaronic Priest, social worker, but mostly, as a professional musician who builds his own electric guitars, now patentable. I hope my opinion is considered. It's a given that America is a brutal, invasive and debauched empire, Washington highjacked by Texans, Clinton unexpectedly winning when no senior Democrat thought they could beat Bush. It was the economy, stupid. Clinton made a profit. Again, it's the economy, now global through computer use. I have no financial plastic, no paper investments and gather no interest, so my accounting stance is totally neutral.

There have been two times when American political news made me cry. When I was in grade seven, the P.A. came on and we were told President John F. Kennedy had been assassinated. Girls stood up, crying, some hugging. Other girls and some boys started crying. This got me crying, and we were told we could go home. When former First Secretary of State General Colin Powell, live, said he was going to vote for Barack Obama, tears gathered in my right eye and I giggled uncontrollably for three to five seconds. I thought about what I would do, if I had my finger on the button, the Senate, the House, and the pulse of the American people. I talk to a lot of American people. They come up to me mostly as tourists in Niagara Falls, so that's a lot of different, usually more wealthy, people. And there are a lot fewer of those these last few years, leading to layoffs here.

The billions Bush wants to give Wall Street, adding $2,300 on the head of every American? Why not give it to the home owners and students, to help pay off their userous debts, preforwarding it to the money lenders and finance benders and computer gangbangers.

Keep paying all your soldiers and weapons manufacturers. Just bring all your covert agents and military back within the borders of your country. Everyone would still be paid as expected, soldiers could be deployed in state for the natural emergencies America still embarasses itself with. The rest of the world would be so happy, we would gladly clean up your irradiated, bombletted and mined outrages. Moving out of Columbian government since 1947 would clean up your coke problem overnight. Moving out of Afghanistan would clean up your heroin problem overnight. God sees the little Sparrow missiles fall, they don't meet his gentle view.

How many Americans got an automotive start with a Volkswagen, the "people's car"? Why? The car and van were designed to be rugged and economical, to help rebuild destroyed Germany. Why are 500 horsepower motors still being put in public transportation? 10% of the American population doesn't know plastic is a petrochemical resource.

If you took the money you spend on the businesses of medical provision, and just used it on doctors and hospitals, everyone would have free medicare, like most other developed countries, and actually have a surplus. If you took the money you spend on creating artificial life and bioweapons, and gave it to orphanages, a lot of hurting people would have a ready chance at life.

It would take a while for the average American to see themselves as global citizens, as the rest of the world does, but it only will add the freedom and foreign acceptance you so proudly desire. A just economy would allow the rise of hand made goods, live entertainment and local manufacturing.

I could go on, but there are other lives to consider. Please, take away your transPacific and transAtlantic sensors and sense-shattering audio weaponry. Our fellow mammals who have bigger brains and hearts than you and I, will find relief. Maybe they will join swimmers on the beach, help adrift wrecks, like they did and some still try to do. A Humpback whale can stun or kill with it's sonic ability, but no human has been known to suffer this fate. How truly wonderful it would be, as an American, to feel that God's nature loves you.

I'm not asking for inspector privileges, to "monitor" your atomic use and weapons readiness. I'm not asking to measure your airborne pollution. I don't have to. I can just look at the acid rain dead lakes up here. I'm not saying you have to stop killing yourselves, or repair your infrastructure. You can drink and get high on your own meth and weed. Partying doesn't have to change, at least not right away. Maybe you will start to follow your own prophets, Joseph Smith Jr., Geronimo, straight and narrow Abraham Lincoln.

A country successed by slavery, divided north and south, now Democrat and Republican, sustained by bleeding the rest of the world, has surely set the template for a global empire. But believe me, when you fall, and great is the fall when you only fall, there is no sane person in the rest of the world trying to duplicate what you are. I applaud Russia for telling it like it is, and walking away from your table.

The American dream we see: sittin' in a strip club wit a cell bein' down wit rippers, doin'a'blunt, nuttin' domestic. It gets better at resorts, and worse overseas. Keeping it to yourselves until you get it together, is always the best advice. Even your hospitals are spreading antibiotic resistant disease through foreign patients. And since you're there already, it's too late. You can debate. You can try to feel good about yourselves. But the truth shall set you free, whether you want it or not.

I write this as a fifty-seven year old Canadian, just a grade twelve graduate, grabbing online time with a borrowed or public computer. What can you say?

[greatcyber]

Congrats on your voting, CD. I hope that your vote will actually be counted. My understanding is that unless the race is too close to call, they don't matter at all. My absentee ballot in 2000 never got counted, so I'm not even bothering this election cycle.

It's an awful, gut-wrenching feeling to think that your vote doesn't even matter, especially with all the hype about free, fair, balanced, blah, blah on the news about it being one's constitutional duty and "privilege" to vote. I just wish I could actually trust the government.