When I began this blog in 2001, I was appalled by President Bush's headlong rush to an illegal war (we were not in fact under attack). As time wore on and Bush began his assault on the Constitution and any people bold enough to criticize, I believed that "the republic is endangered more by actions of our own government than by those of any terrorist." With the election of a high-minded, compassionate, intelligent man like Barack Obama, my fears have ceased.
"Honor them with peace, not war"
United for Peace
Friday, January 10, 2003
From the Black Commentator:
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Theft with aplomb
From the Black Commentator:
George W. Bush is pulling off multiple, simultaneous, history-shaking heists at home and abroad, all in plain site, with the calm and aplomb of a born criminal, a prodigy, a "natural." He hauls the people's treasury from the vault, crosses the lobby nodding howdy-do to bystanders, deposits the cash at the curb for pickup by limo, then turns to pause for applause. After a few awkward seconds, the onlookers oblige him.
Bush announces that he is about to seize the second largest deposits of oil on the globe. Assembled emissaries of the planet's governments clear their throats to ask if he will be kind enough to sit down and talk about the matter awhile. Bush shouts that the world should be glad he hasn't taken the oil fields already but, being the nice guy that he is, he'll wait until he's good and ready. Well, say the diplomats, that's reasonable.
The $300 billion smile: Bush steals with all due diligence. He disposed of an unprecedented projected federal surplus in his first months in office, dispensing $1.35 trillion of it to his fellow pirates before anyone else had a chance to even think about rebuilding the national infrastructure, repairing social safety nets, or making real investments in education. A year and a half later, with the nation now deeply in debt and at the brink of a $200 billion war, every state in fiscal crisis and joblessness stalking the land, Bush announces that the ten year tax breaks he gave to the wealthy in 2001 must be speeded up. And he demands that the rich receive another ten year, $300 billion dollar gift through elimination of the tax on stock dividends. His own advisors warn that this might cause a public backlash. They caution Bush to ask for only a halving of the tax. Bush reasons that the walk from the vault to the limo is still the same distance, whether with half or all the loot, and tells his friends to line up at the curb for the full 100 percent.
Bush rammed his entire legislative package through the waning days of last year's 107th Congress, benefits to corporate America so numerous that no single list was compiled before the final vote. Republicans lined up to pencil in gifts to their favorite special interests
Palema
7:05 AM
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