Probably Good-Bye

This is probably going to be my last posting, as I am moving to London to oversee my business, and I'm frankly quite fed up with domestic politics here in general, and the Bush administration in particular. Also, it seems now that there are many, many sources of Bush-directed vitriol, many of them as vociferous in their denouncements as I have been. So I'll just vent some and be done with it.

First off, let me say that I was stunned and stupified that George W. Bush became president in 2000, then, considering his job performance, surprised and staggered by his re-election in 2004. The man did not deserve to even be governor of Texas (a job which he did poorly, except for the PR part) let alone a candidate for the highest office in the land -- let alone winning his party's nomination, then the office itself.

GW's ascendancy to the White House meant, in old-fashioned parlance, that the foxes had been put in charge of guarding the chicken coop. This administration has no core social philosophy or foreign policy except for one: The rich need to get richer, including their cronies and supporters. Everything else, all the platitudes and political platform-making, is only a smokescreen for an unprecedented fleecing of the U.S. Treasury by this band of thieving greedsters. A truthful book about these Bushies would be entitled "The Looting of America."

Every major initiative by the Bushies has had this one purpose of enriching the already-wealthy by displacing federal money directly into the coffers of rich individuals and major corporations. From the tax cuts to the prescription drug bill (blatant corporate giveaway) to the energy bill (massive corporate giveaway) to the transportation bill (over 6000 pork projects; basically payoffs to supporters) to last year's 100+ billion in corporate tax cuts to the no-bid contracts doled out in Iraq to companies like Halliburton, the haves are becoming the super-haves, while the almost-haves and don't-haves are slowly getting squeezed with higher prices.

Now we have the Gulf Coast Reconstruction. This may end up helping some poor and middle class people, but have no doubt that its main purpose is to distribute large portions of the projected 200-400 billion dollars into the pockets of politically connected corporations. (And yes, for those of you paying attention, Halliburton already has its nose in this new multi-billion dollar trough.) How utterly co-opted must the Democratic Party and the mainstream media be to treat this culture of corruption and cronyism as part of the natural landscape.

And how has the general public fared under this administration while this unconscionable looting has been going on? Any crumbs from the overlords hitting the floor for us to scarf up? Fact is, the numbers just came out that show that the average household income of Americans has gone down again, which makes it every year so far under Bush. Also, the number of people who are living in poverty has increased every year under this den of thieves, as has the homeless population, and those without health insurance.


So, to summarize, what we've had in this country has been a rampant betrayal of public trust, of truly historic proportions, a scandal for the ages, yet, there is no scandal. The nation remains asleep, and I have decided to let sleeping babes lie ... and bid all a fond adieu.