Bush 2009 budget....Jesus man.

Recent headlines say that the Bush 2009 budget (2009?) is going to call for some really tight budget cuts in Healthcare programs and social services. All I can say is WTF! Of course we have no problems sending billions of dollars to Iraq and other military junkets. But this Compassionate Conservative has no issue cutting the legs out from under those who would need it most. This is worse than Ronald Reagan! At least Ronnie pretended to be trying to make government smaller. Of course he too cut programs that were benefiting the average joe. Here it is folks let me lay it out. What has happened is the people who were opposed to FDR's New Deal and LBJ's Great Society programs could not argue that they didn't work. Because they did. And arguing to eliminate things like Social Security and Medicare was political suicide, since hey they worked, kept people out of poverty and we all like that! Now realize that this administration actually proposed privatizing Social Security. That should really give us all chills. Then they went and established a huge costly benefit in the form of Medicare D, the drug program. Which really helps the big pharmaceuticals more than anything but that's neither here nor there. Why add a big cost to a program that is already costly? Because the 'conservatives' that oppose the FDR and LBJ programs WANT to bankrupt them. Here is the way it works. First you scare the bejesus out of everyone with all the terrorist talk. So then you have to bulk up the military budgets and can never cut them back because we have to win the 'war on terra'! Now you cry that the sky is falling and we can't afford to continue to provide social security and medicare because it is just too expensive. Of course hiding other facts at the same time. Remember this link? So everyone is convinced that we need to cut, eliminate or privatize these programs thus removing the government promise of these programs completely. This people is fascism. Don't forget the definition thereof. We are being duped folks. Our countries leaders and our press and media is screwing us over.

Bush to Target Earmarks in State of Union?

Let me preface what I am going to say. I don't like George W. Bush. I have never met him nor do I want to. I don't know him personally and I don't wish to. I have read that he is really a nice guy, personable, etc. But then again I have heard a lot of other dictators and terrorists are too. George Bush's actions speak louder than anything else. We have almost 4000 deaths in Iraq and for what purpose? The manipulation of the 9/11 tragedy for political haymaking is practically criminal in itself. The tragedy of the Katrina hurricane and New Orleans is unbelievable in the lack of empathy and concern coming from the white house. Check out this story in USA today from the year anniversary. So now in this, what is thankfully, his final year in office. George Bush has decided to do some things which should have been being done from the beginning. Mr 'Uniter not a Divider', deciding to more aggressively pursue the peace process. And now Mr. 'My Pet Goat' will attack Earmarks in his State of the Union Speech. Of course earmarking was never a big issue when the republicans were in charge of congress. Why not do something about it then when the repugs had both houses and the white house? Because our government is essentially an Oligarchy with no real concern for the average american . How else to explain 40+ million uninsured? A war with no end and nothing truly gained? The incredible tax cuts given to the fabulously wealthy.? Thanks George, you're an asshole, no question.

We Were Lied into the Iraq war. Can you believe it?!

A recent study by two non-profit organizations show that President Bush and his administration lied as part of an orchestrated campaign to lead the nation to war under false pretenses. No REALLY! I could have told you that in 2003 when we were being lied to then. Did anyone with a brain really think that after bombing the snot out of Saddam for the last 10 years prior to our attack, that he would be able to reconstitute a weapons program? If he did then we should have had him run THIS country since apparently he was better at his organizational skills than our current leader. (That's a joke people) Isn't "an orchestrated campaign that effectively galvanized public opinion and, in the process, led the nation to war under decidedly false pretenses." an impeachable offense? We have over 3000 dead soldiers now who went to Iraq on these false pretenses. Since Madame Pelosi has taken impeachment off the table for now, I believe that the least we can do is get as many republicans out of congress and the whitehouse as possible. Since there are really no viable third parties or third candidates the Democrats are our only other alternative. A sad one I will admit but we must make do with what we have.

It's the Economy Stupid

Back in 1980, when Ronnie Reagan was elected. We were at a unusual economic crossroad. It was apparent that whatever congress and President Carter were doing to ameliorate the economy just wasn't working. So along comes the Pres and his big tax change. Of course what most folks don't know is that he was supposed to also cut massive parts of federal budget too. And he and congress did cut parts of the budget but they were mostly those parts that helped people achieve job training, and keep jobs in the U.S. yadda yadda yadda. He didn't cut the defense budget at all in fact it was dramatically increased. And most Americans approved of this, but the increase in the deficit was huge. So if anyone starts touting the Reagan economic turnaround keep in mind it was probably the massive injection of federal funds into the military industrial complex. That is not necessarily bad, I mean those arm manufacturers and shipbuilders and tank builders need to employ people, right? Those people can use the jobs here in the states. The bad part of investing such huge amounts into the Military Industrial Complex (check out section IV in that link) is that these investments are not contributing to our infrastructure in such a way as to promote continued job creation. The only way the M.I.C. can continue it's economic growth is to ensure that war becomes a growth industry. How many billions do we send to Iraq? And now our current Dummy in Chief is rattling sabers with Iran? Something seems a bit suspicious to me. So as Georgie Bush's investments into our war industry seem to be failing, he never was very good at running a business, He and congress propose a very Keynesian economic solution to jump start things. That is, putting cash into the hands of consumers. Of course tax breaks are coming, for these clowns tax breaks are the solution to everything. Well, Apparently not everything. But like Georgie's attempt at middle east peace this is all too little too late. Damn, I do wish we would impeach this guy.

Bush extends the executive office, again.....

In yet one more example of the president's office disregarding law and our own constitution, George W. Bush signed an executive exemption to the 12 mile no-sonar law. Now I happen to feel that it is a good thing to not kill or maim hundreds or thousands of marine mammals. But regardless of that fact is the total disregard that this administration has for the laws passed by our congress. Jesus people let's impeach them!
As much as I would vote for anyone running on the Democratic ticket against the Repubs I would really not want to have Hillary as the candidate. She is just carrying too much baggage. Obama is the man who really appears to be a leader. Please please Democratic Party don't choose Hillary! Does anyone in the dem hierarchy realize how much a very determined segment of our population hates her? Hillary Haters are united. We would be setting up the Democratic party for a loss, no question.
I guess Afghanistan is headed for crisis too. Who would have thought? I mean haven't we concentrated a ton of effort and troops there? Oh wait I'm thinking of Iraq! Apparently we really needed to apply more effort to establishing order and 'democracy' in Afghanistan. Who woulda guessed?
Hey, go figure, now Mr. Bush says the economy needs stimulatin'. Why just a few weeks ago wasn't he saying that the economy was in good shape? Boy things sure can turn around fast eh? Maybe it's just that the guy is a total moron. Look at all the good that his pressure on Iran has done. I am thinking that the next step is martial law. This video is spot on if you ask me. But I am frustrated and angry about all this. I will say just about anything. Damn.

Why are Gas Prices so High? Part two .... et al.

Okay so I have been thinking some more on this gas prices thing. It seems to me to be very obvious that we need to get away from oil, both foreign and otherwise. But there is no real progress being made. See my previous post on the electric car. I think this needs to be a three prong approach. First we need to conserve as much as we can. Higher MPG, renewable power sources etc. Second we need to develop alternate fuels for our vehicles, like ethanol. Third we need to set a goal, similar to our space race in the sixties, to get into a hydrogen economy. Until we can get there we need to make more gasoline and oil available, while at the same time reducing demand. For now though we have people like you and me feeling pain at the gasoline pump and in our homes when we fill our heating oil tank. So I find it frustrating when Our Fearless Leader, (you knew I would get to him didn't you?) actually asks OPEC to increase their production to help lower the price of oil. While that in itself isn't actually a bad thing, it's something he should have been doing all along. We won't bring up all that cheap oil we are supposed to be getting from Iraq. We were supposed to get oil from Iraq right? But he also has it in his power to release oil from the strategic oil reserve and that would have a much quicker and more immediate effect on oil prices I think. So realizing that almost half of the price of a barrel of oil is speculative then steps to help investors speculate on a lower price would be a good idea, huh?
On other topics; apparently the Bush administration isn't happy with just one Guantanamo for torturing our 'enemies' they need to have one in Afghanistan too. Why aren't people outraged yet?
On Health care it is funny to note that one of the popular stories making the rounds was conservative pundit Glenn Beck's visit to the hospital. Apparently this is not an unusual event as emergency rooms are getting worse. I will write in more detail on another post. But let's just say I think Mr. Beck's conclusion was way off.
In order to end on a more humorous note, I thought I might mention those folks in Texas that apparently have witnessed a UFO. They witnessed a flying object one mile long and 1/2 mile wide. That is one big ship. A lot of folks saw it I guess, many of them very reputable people. Of course realize this, UFO seen in Texas, President Bush 'from' Texas....Coincidence?

Bush urges allied action against Iraq... I mean Iran,

Oh my freakin god can we say deja vu all over again? George Bush is urging action by the allies against Iran? Wait, doesn't this all sound familiar? Didn't mister Asshole urge the same kind of crap against Iraq? And we all know how that turned out huh? Remember? We found that huge stash of Saddam's Weapons of Mass destruction. All the biological weapons labs were discovered and destroyed. Whew that was a close one fer sure. Now of course our Idiot in Chief is asking us to go along with more 'action' against another nation, that hasn't attacked us, that isn't close to nuclear capability, and naturally we have to do something about it immediately! Of course we all know that Georgie is incapable of lying. The real question is are we all going to fall for this again? Gawd if anyone needs impeaching it is Bush and Cheney. Can somebody please please please impeach these guys?!