Blow It Up and Start Anew

Okay, seems I have been called to duty by freeacre, wanting an update on what’s going on in the world. I am feeling better, a bit re-charged, and when freeacre calls I think I had better respond, if I know what is good for me. I think she can be a mean gal when she needs to be. Just kidding, freeacre.

I thought for quite a while about the proper order to put all of this into. Then, I realized that since it covers nearly all of each part of our individual lives, it really doesn’t matter. As a result, these thoughts are being fired randomly as they enter my head. So, should they seem a bit out of order or detached, they probably are. Anyway, here we go.

Where We Are

Our economy is in shambles. We are so far in debt that each and every child who is born today,(along with each of us already living) starts off with a negative balance of $27,000+, just to pay for the current war in Iraq/Afghanistan. Yes, just for the Mid East excursion. Add all the other absurd amounts of debt that our leaders pile up each year and one can only imagine what the actual debt per person is. I don’t even want to know. Suffice it to say, we won’t ever make enough money to pay our fair share of what we owe. Keep printing money boys, it soon won’t matter.

Speaking of Iraq, while waiting in the Doctor’s office yesterday, I had the pleasure (gag me) of hearing Boosh try to sell his Iraq policy (he has a policy?) to some folks in Cleveland. He said the same old crap that he always says, throwing in some talk about a town where little insurgent activity has occurred and called it a success story. He did take questions, and not surprisingly, looked like a total fool in the process. One particular question was whether or not he agreed with the Christian Right in believing that Iraq was a sign that the end times were near. Always quick on his feet, he stammered around like an idiot who has never been involved in a public speaking performance before, babbled for 13 minutes, and never answered the question that was asked. To his credit, it is the first time in his Presidency that I have ever seen him field questions from an audience that wasn’t pre-screened. Should be the last too, he is a clueless zombie. Selling this war won’t work, ever.

The infrastructure of our country is crumbling, and we can’t print money fast enough to fix it. So, we have resorted to outsourcing the work to foreign entities. Leasing toll roads for 75 years with more to come in my state, selling ports and bridges and who knows what all throughout the country, we just can’t handle fixing what we already have. But hey, the economy is robust so everything is just grand. Boosh said so, it must be true.

About ports, our security at these points of entry is disastrous. It is reassuring to know that 5% of all packages are checked and monitored, makes me feel safe. We may as well throw our borders in here too. It’s now easier to cross the Mexican border than it is to enter an NBA basketball arena on game night. I’m not sure about the Canadian border, but Mexican border security is an outrageous joke. Boosh says to make them all legal under his “guest worker” program. No one seems to be able to agree on this issue, but one thing is certain. To spend $5.9 Billion per week in Iraq to “fight them over there instead of over here” while having borders where you could drive a nuclear weapon through in the back of a minivan is beyond the height of absurdity. Claiming that we are serious about national security is nothing but a money making fraud by Boosh and his buddies, and it’s become laughable.

Who are his buddies? How about Big Oil, who are reaping in obscene profits while the price of crude goes down. Hmmm, how is that justified? Well, it’s not. It just happens because it can. Want an explanation? Too bad, we don’t have one for you. Well, we can make one up like we always have, but we don’t feel that is necessary any more. We’re just tired of the game. Now you can just accept it and like it, here in the New America. And, we can’t forget the corporations, of course. Those that line the politician’s pockets with the money they use to buy toys and elections with. All the while screwing you and I out of health care and pensions, without penalty. The new legislation enacted to rebuild the under funded pensions is actually going to allow the corporations to put less money into employee pension funds than they did when they were under funding them, when all is said and done. Huh? Yep, check it out, it’s interesting rationale.

Did I mention health care? The American health care system is probably the biggest travesty of all. This self described “superpower,” the “richest and finest country in the world,” has tens of millions of people who couldn’t go to the doctor if their appendix were about to burst. It is absolutely shameful that we can spend $5.9 Billion per week blowing up Iraqi’s when we have people here at home without food or the ability to see a medical professional when necessary. Ever wonder why health care costs so damn much? Could it be that when these poor souls finally get to the Dr. after being found near death on the street, are then picked up by an ambulance and hauled in, that they are in such sad shape that they spend weeks undergoing every test known to man along with a long hospital stay? It is completely preventable, and would be cheaper in the long run to provide health care for every American, free of charge. Screw the wealthy; they can still buy whatever Dr. they want for their own personal pleasures. But no, we must spend our funds “bringing democracy” to a bunch of people who don’t know what it is and don’t want it, given that it includes the deaths of hundreds of thousands of their brothers and sisters and blows their homeland to kingdom come. That’s the Boosh way, and by God that’s what we’re going to do.

I can’t go without mentioning education in this country, another major failure. We have a large percentage of our population who are functionally illiterate, yet we are the self anointed leaders of the free world. Our school systems suck, from Kindergarten through Graduate School. Don’t believe me? George W. Boosh has an MBA. Enough said.

Our court system is a joke. They are facing such a major backlog of ridiculous drug cases that about your only option is to plead guilty just to get it over with. Most of them are marijuana cases, the “gateway” drug. The only thing “gateway” about marijuana is the increased travel to the nearest 7/11 so people can stock up on Doritos. And, this leads to our prison system, which has been outsourced because we can’t build prisons fast enough to lock up all these potheads. Meanwhile, people who have committed violent crimes are released on a daily basis due to jail overcrowding. Another brilliant, well thought out plan by the greatest country in the world.

I guess I must mention the Supreme Court while I’m at it. While the Right wants to scream at the top of their lungs that “we can’t have people legislating from the bench,” answer one question for me, please. Has there ever been a bigger example of legislating from the bench than the appointment of George W. Boosh to the Presidency of the United States? I already know the answer, and it is NO. These people, the champions of state’s rights, are so hypocritical it is nauseating. While claiming to be state’s rights advocates, they stomp all over the Florida Supreme Court to make certain that their boy was the winner in a fraud of an “election.” Meanwhile, they don’t mind continuing the daily stripping of our own constitutional rights, the rights of the American citizens. Yes, those of us who live in the only truly “free” democratic society in the world, are watching our rights erode quicker than the ice shelf. It is simply laughable, and appalling. I just know that other countries around the world are drooling in anticipation while waiting for us to bring our form of “democracy” to them.

Speaking of the ice shelf, I saw something on Global Warming on 60 minutes the other night. It was called something like “Re-writing Science.” I did not take notes, as I was doing other things at the time, hearing only bits and pieces of it. But I will say this. What I heard was chilling. I know, chilling doesn’t exactly fit while talking about “warming,” but I’ll tell you that what the Boosh administration is doing on this front is nothing short of criminal. I am going to do a full piece on this in the near future, so I won’t go any further now. Those of you who may have seen it probably know what I’m talking about. Those that didn’t, soon will because I'm going to tell you.

Then there is Congress. They have stood by, accepting paychecks and great pension plans, allowing all of the above to occur. They have absolutely sold out the American people, pretending to “represent” us while flying all over the world, playing golf on Jack Abramoff’s stolen money. We would be much better off doubling their salaries and telling them to stay home. We can handle it on our own, thank you very much. Divide this place up into small communities and let us live our lives. All we need is some self directed organization, some guns, and we’ll live in the Wild Wild West.

Whose Fault All Of This?

There is plenty of blame to go around, but I choose to blame us, the slumbering American people. While we chased the dream of living above our means, buying into every advertising campaign designed by corporate America to give us more, used the school system as a babysitting service, allowed Murph’s television to fascinate the hell out of us, refused to become involved in a political process that used to be available to us because it took some thought, failed to even look outside the box that contains our little lives (much less venturing out of that space), we have allowed the thieving “leaders” of our country to get fat off of us and sell us down the river at the same time. American’s, as a mass, are dumber than a box of rocks.

We are officially a banana republic, in fact we have been for some time. We just didn’t know it. Now, it’s too late to save it. Blow it up and start over, that’s the only way out.

Boy I’ve missed you guys. See why I write?

Cyclone


"Quotas are bad for America. It's not the way America is all about."

George W. Boosh; St. Louis, Mo; October 18, 2000