Nine Trillion?! Is That Right?!
We are living in interesting times. As the old Chinese curse says, interesting times are not the best of times. Why should interesting times be worse? Well, can you honestly remember a time when the country was divided into red and blue? I think the last time was after the southern states seceded from the union. It's a topsy-turvy world we live in when the so-called Conservatives run up higher debts than the Liberals! The Senate voted today to raise the debt ceiling nearly half a trillion to $9 trillion! Are we to now come up with $30,000 from each man, woman and child in this country in order to satisfy this debt? Or are the Republicans going to hand this problem off to the Dems who are obviously going to win the next cycle of elections? The vote was close, 52 - 48, and the Dems know that this is going to be their baby to have to care for, that's why they were steaming mad about it. This administration inherited a surplus of nearly $5 trillion, and through it's tax cuts for the super-wealthy, disasters both natural and pre-emptive, have left us with a debt that will still be staggering 10 years from now.
So where is the money going? Well, some might think the troops are benefiting from this by having their material needs met, but when soldiers need to ask their families to hold raffles and bake sales to furnish them with body armor, and units have to salvage armor from junk yards to weld onto their humvees so they'll at least stand somewhat of a chance when hit by a road-side bomb or a missile, we have to ask ourselves that question. When the troops get to watch their morning briefings from Qatar on 60 inch plasma screen TV's that cost $15,000 each, (one unit has gone through 9 of them so far because the ever-present dust in Iraq gets into them and they don't work any more), and Haliburton gets $40 to ship a case of Coke to Iraq, when it could be purchased locally, and another Haliburton subsidiary gets paid $2.1 billion for shoddy work on the levees in New Orleans, (the government did contest $50 million of the bill, but wound up paying all but a small fraction of it because the rules say that a contractor still has to be paid even if their work doesn't measure up to the government's standards), and the Marines, who've borne the brunt of the war in Iraq, and are traditionally the least funded branch of the military, have to fly missions in Vietnam era helicopters because the funding for their replacement helicopter has been cut off, we still have to ask ourselves this question.
Isn't fiduciary malfeasance a crime? I know that if I were intrusted with someone else's money, and spent it on silly things, or passed it around to all my friends instead of taking care of it, investing it wisely, spending it on the things that the someone else needed, I'd be hauled into court and thrown into jail! Why hasn't anyone in Congress, (that's both the House and Senate), issued a call for impeachment?! I know that there's been a call for W's censure, but that's a slap on the wrist! Are we supposed to go through another 3 years of this?!
Time for the 3rd American Revolution. That's right. It would be the third. The southern states called their effort to remain the CSA, the 2nd American Revolution. The fact of the matter is that NOBODY in Washington D.C. is going to be able to take the reigns of power if the entire executive branch were thrown out. The whole place is thick with losers, wing-nuts who worry more about whether or not some billionaire has to pay taxes, or a gay or lesbian couple gets to have a ceremony and a piece of paper from the government saying that they can sleep together, or a woman gets to terminate an unwanted pregnancy, than how to carry out the true functions of government. It's not to force others to conform to YOUR will, but to protect them from the vagaries of life. We need to throw the entire government out, including the Supreme Court. There needs to be complete reformation of our republic. Thomas Jefferson himself said that a healthy democracy needs to have a revolution every 20 years or so to get rid of the bad blood. I'm not endorsing violence, or anarchy, but that we merely exercise our rights under the current government's rules, to vote them out.
Grass Roots. Honestly, it seems that Americans care more about their lawns than their government! We need to stop watching Reality TV and start watching CSPAN! We need to see what's really going on. Because Bill O'Reilly says that he's giving America a Fair & Balanced look at what's going on doesn't mean that he's telling the truth! The common people need to take charge of their political parties again, invent new ones if the current choices aren't what they want, and take back control of their future. Our posterity rests on what we do today. We need to stop putting off 'til tomorrow, because tomorrow never comes! It's always today. We can plan for tomorrow, but we can't implement the plan until today. As I see it, Today's Hope is being crucified between two thieves - Fear of Tomorrow and Regret over Yesterday. Would anyone in their right mind burden their children with a debt so large that they'll never get out of its shadow?
Operation American Freedom. Vote the idiots out! Take back control of the Congress and then impeach the entire Executive branch, install an interim Executive branch and call for special elections. Just like we do in other countries. Why should we be the only ones living under a dictatorship?
So where is the money going? Well, some might think the troops are benefiting from this by having their material needs met, but when soldiers need to ask their families to hold raffles and bake sales to furnish them with body armor, and units have to salvage armor from junk yards to weld onto their humvees so they'll at least stand somewhat of a chance when hit by a road-side bomb or a missile, we have to ask ourselves that question. When the troops get to watch their morning briefings from Qatar on 60 inch plasma screen TV's that cost $15,000 each, (one unit has gone through 9 of them so far because the ever-present dust in Iraq gets into them and they don't work any more), and Haliburton gets $40 to ship a case of Coke to Iraq, when it could be purchased locally, and another Haliburton subsidiary gets paid $2.1 billion for shoddy work on the levees in New Orleans, (the government did contest $50 million of the bill, but wound up paying all but a small fraction of it because the rules say that a contractor still has to be paid even if their work doesn't measure up to the government's standards), and the Marines, who've borne the brunt of the war in Iraq, and are traditionally the least funded branch of the military, have to fly missions in Vietnam era helicopters because the funding for their replacement helicopter has been cut off, we still have to ask ourselves this question.
Isn't fiduciary malfeasance a crime? I know that if I were intrusted with someone else's money, and spent it on silly things, or passed it around to all my friends instead of taking care of it, investing it wisely, spending it on the things that the someone else needed, I'd be hauled into court and thrown into jail! Why hasn't anyone in Congress, (that's both the House and Senate), issued a call for impeachment?! I know that there's been a call for W's censure, but that's a slap on the wrist! Are we supposed to go through another 3 years of this?!
Time for the 3rd American Revolution. That's right. It would be the third. The southern states called their effort to remain the CSA, the 2nd American Revolution. The fact of the matter is that NOBODY in Washington D.C. is going to be able to take the reigns of power if the entire executive branch were thrown out. The whole place is thick with losers, wing-nuts who worry more about whether or not some billionaire has to pay taxes, or a gay or lesbian couple gets to have a ceremony and a piece of paper from the government saying that they can sleep together, or a woman gets to terminate an unwanted pregnancy, than how to carry out the true functions of government. It's not to force others to conform to YOUR will, but to protect them from the vagaries of life. We need to throw the entire government out, including the Supreme Court. There needs to be complete reformation of our republic. Thomas Jefferson himself said that a healthy democracy needs to have a revolution every 20 years or so to get rid of the bad blood. I'm not endorsing violence, or anarchy, but that we merely exercise our rights under the current government's rules, to vote them out.
Grass Roots. Honestly, it seems that Americans care more about their lawns than their government! We need to stop watching Reality TV and start watching CSPAN! We need to see what's really going on. Because Bill O'Reilly says that he's giving America a Fair & Balanced look at what's going on doesn't mean that he's telling the truth! The common people need to take charge of their political parties again, invent new ones if the current choices aren't what they want, and take back control of their future. Our posterity rests on what we do today. We need to stop putting off 'til tomorrow, because tomorrow never comes! It's always today. We can plan for tomorrow, but we can't implement the plan until today. As I see it, Today's Hope is being crucified between two thieves - Fear of Tomorrow and Regret over Yesterday. Would anyone in their right mind burden their children with a debt so large that they'll never get out of its shadow?
Operation American Freedom. Vote the idiots out! Take back control of the Congress and then impeach the entire Executive branch, install an interim Executive branch and call for special elections. Just like we do in other countries. Why should we be the only ones living under a dictatorship?
posted by Bob at 9:51 AM
1 Comments:
I thank you for the kind remarks on my blog post, but I think that to say that this is the only method for "tolerating" this lunacy, is a little short sighted. I suggested we actually take action, which is more than what at least a third of this country's citizenry did in the last election. They didn't even bother to get off their assess to vote for one of the two other assess who were running, and only one of those two identified himself as an ass, while the other one personified an ass while claiming to be a pachyderm. Goes to show ya what a C student can do when he puts his best foot-in-mouth forward. As for asylums, this isn't the asylum, Washington is! It's where they've shoved all the meanest, most dispicable people in the country, who wave the banner of Christ as if it were their coat of arms, and hide behind the belief of hundreds of millions of people to validate their lunacy at best, and criminality in reality. They aren't waiting for the apocalypse, they're MAKING it! But W doesn't know that! He's just mouthing the words while Cheney or Rove have their hands shoved up his ass. Well, if these people really want to meet their maker, so to speak, let them ditch their security escorts and parachute into the middle of Karachi or Faluja. I give them 3 minutes tops.
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