Archive for February 6th, 2008

Ever wonder what happened to the kid from Mad Magazine?
 

Well now you know

‘Here’s my strategy on the Cold War: We win, they lose.’
 
‘The most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’
 
‘The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant; it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.’
 
‘Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.’
 
‘I have wondered at times about what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the U.S. Congress.’
 
 ’The taxpayer: That’s someone who works for the federal government but doesn’t have to take the civil service examination.’
 
‘Government is like a baby: An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.’
 
‘The nearest thing to eternal life we will ever see on this earth is a government program.’
 
‘It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.’
 
‘Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.’
 
‘Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed, there are many rewards; if you disgrace yourself, you can always write a book.’
 
‘No arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is as formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.’
 
‘If we ever forget that we’re one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under.’
 
- Ronald Reagan

       After enjoying the lowest approval rating in the nation’s history, can both the Congress and the president buy their way back into the public’s favor?  The proposed one-time tax refund of 800 dollars per person or 1600 dollars per household is designed to accomplish exactly that.  Are we really that gullible?  Can we really be expected to forgive all the lying, favoritism, and corruption perpetrated by this administration?  After leading us into war and driving the nation into a recession, they propose to give the taxpayers some of their money back.  Let us not forget that in order to give money back to us, they have to take it from us in the first place. And let us not forget,  if  it weren’t for this administration wasting trillions of dollars on an illegal, immoral and unpopular war in the first place, we wouldn’t be on the brink of a financial meltdown.    

           150 billion dollars.  It sounds like a lot of money.  However, if we look at the Bush/Cheney welfare to Halliburton program it is a drop in the bucket.  According to the latest Bill Moyer exposé,  200 billion dollars of the 400 billion dollars billed by Halliburton to the American taxpayer has disappeared.  By disappeared I don’t mean failed to show up in Halliburton’s account.  I mean disappeared as in the services billed to and paid for by the government were never performed.  Buildings billed and paid for were never built.  Outrageous double or triple billing for products and services were never reimbursed, or credits issued.  In a recent investigation by the Senate, Condoleezza Rice attributed these disappearing funds to “accounting” errors.  Theft, by any other name, is still theft.       Isn’t it?     

        Most economists agree that this proposed “stimulus package” won’t really accomplish anything.  Because businessmen realize the bubble is of short duration, they won’t be adding payroll or capacity to plants.  It is fair to say a portion will go to paying down personal debt, which won’t stimulate anything either.  All this measure really does is drive up the nation’s debt.  According to  Bloomberg analysts, this president has the nation on cruise control straight over a cliff.  If anyone in the private sector proposed such a reckless policy, they would be on their way to an institution and fitted for a strait jacket.        We used to be able to tell the bandits from the good guys because the bandits had the decency to wear masks.  Now the bandits are leading our nation and stealing us blind with the tacit approval of congress. Since the modern-day Bonnie and Clyde’s are above the law,they plunder and pillage at will.  Unfortunately the devastating effects of the nation’s greedy plunderers extends around the globe.  Because the country gets no benefit from the exploitation of our treasury, the value of the dollar is in steep decline around planet.  Because the dollar is still the Globe’s primary currency we are taking the rest of the world down with us.