September 18, 2004 by lonbud

Other People’s Money

What, do you suppose, is in the President’s Kool-Aid?

With less than two months to the election, his pitch to the American Voter is: John Kerry Will Hurt Job Growth And The Economy By Raising Taxes On Small Businesses.

He actually said these words at a fundraiser in the nation’s capital on Friday night: “To make sure the economy continues to grow, we’ll be wise about how we spend the money – the people’s money.”

This from a man who has achieved the distinction of being the first president to shepherd the nation to a net loss in jobs since the visionary Herbert Hoover. And certainly the President boasts an astounding history of spending “people’s money” wisely, having bankrupted in his career two corporations, fleecing investors and clients alike, though not without enriching himself handily before the fact.

This man has, in the last four years, seen the “people’s money” spent so wisely, “the people’s” budget went from a few hundred billion dollar surplus to a several hundred billion dollar deficit. Although, that was Bill Clinton’s fault.

On his own account, however, the President took a whole pile of “the people’s money” and distributed it to the wealthiest three, four, five percent of us. And he has clearly spent over 125 billion dollars of “the people’s money” on our Adventure in Iraq, plus additional tens of billions more dollars of “the people’s money” in Afghanistan, a whole shitpot of all of which went to Vice President Dick Cheney’s compadres at Halliburton. The man knows what he is doing!

And it makes such sense that he is addressing us now on the economy and domestic affairs, in the light of the fact his investment of “the people’s money” in Afghanistan and Iraq is producing rather grim returns.

It is over, there, folks. Choose the number of American dead it will take you to take to the streets, because we will continue to pour the lives of our young, mostly underprivileged citizens into the maw of Islamic radicalism until “the people” make it stop; no matter who wins the election in November.

The President told a cheering throng of National Guardsmen at their convention in Las Vegas this week, “our policies are working” in Iraq.

This was the same week an American helicopter gunship was captured on live television killing not only innocent Iraqi civilians, but also the reporter filing the story. The country is a tinderbox and American security personnel have admitted they cannot guarantee the safety of anyone in the so-called Green Zone of Bagdhad. On average, three American soldiers and dozens of Iraqi people die every day, as of September.

One cannot speak for the Iraqi people, but it was definitely better for Americans with Saddam Hussein in power.

So, yes, the President is right to focus on the domestic situation, where Medicare premiums have more than doubled during his term, where history’s most magnificent bankruptcies and corporate malfeasances have blossomed under his laconic reign. Where, according to the Vice President, everything is just fine because the barometers by which the economy is traditionally judged don’t take into account the hundreds of thousands of people who “make some money” on EBay each year. When you throw in all the drug deals, and prostitution, and the bake sales and county fairs, this economy is virtually booming under the Connecticut Cowboy.

What, do you suppose, is in America’s Kool-Aid?