The GOP had such righteous indignation when they were confronted with the truth that Cheney still received a salary from Halliburton at the time of the rollout of the Iraq War. They were happy for the extra money that the top 1% was getting when they deregulated the banking and finance industries. They gleefully shredded needed regulations from the subprime mortgages market. It was obvious that the borrowers had no chance of meeting these loans and when this scam for the top 1%'s gain ran rampant it was obvious that a crisis was in our future. Back in 2000 many sources were warning that Bush was planning on destroying the social welfare network and have huge deficits. Who could expect us to believe that the GOP ghouls never realized that in addition to that big bro 43 would destroy our economy by starting a war without raising taxes? No other US president has done so as US presidents have always asked the US citizens to share the pain of a war by raising taxes for the war in order that the price of the war does not cause deficits.
The Sadrists have the right idea. They hanged big bro 43 in effigy. Our dear apathetic red state common masses, God bless their souls, contributed to the 46% that McCain received against Obama. They voted against their own self interests because they were allured to the GOP whose racist, fear mongering propaganda has changed little throughout the ages. "Tricky Dick" had the domino theory. Big bro 43 had "GWOT". Teflon Ronnie ran up record deficits until the son of the man-bush 41, who derided Reagan's "Voodoo economics" dwarfed Ronnie's deficits and imperiled our-and also the world's economy.
Who, other than the top 1% could have voted against their own children-who are the IED fodder in Iraq and whose income and health care benefits have drastically eroded? These people you have to pity. They are being to their own demise and as are placid as those most apathetic sheep.
had Paul Krugman, New York Times Columnist and Author of "The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century" stating ""Well, a couple of things. The first is that a good part of the media are essentially part of the machine. If you work for any Murdoch publication or network, or if you work for the Rev. Moon's empire, you're really not a journalist in the way that we used to think. You're basically just part of a propaganda machine. And that's a pretty large segment of the media. As for the rest, certainly being critical at the level I've been critical –- basically saying that these guys are lying, even if it's staring you in the face –- is a very unpleasant experience. You get a lot of heat from people who should be on your side, because they accuse you of being shrill, which is everybody's favorite word for me. And you become a personal target." His book is, as the article continues "unforgiving in his exposure of the insidious financial incompetence and calculated deception of the current administration. Because of his academic background, he has the heft to back up his trenchant perspective with the "bonafides."
Paul Krugman, as well as other have been predicting that big bro 43 would ruin our economy almost from the very beginning of this lazy lout's term as the article continues "There is no economic policy. That's really important to say. The general modus operandi of the Bushies is that they don't make policies to deal with problems. They use problems to justify things they wanted to do anyway. So there is no policy to deal with the lack of jobs. There really isn't even a policy to deal with terrorism. It's all about how can we spin what's happening out there to do what we want to do. Now if you ask what do the people who keep pushing for one tax cut after another want to accomplish, the answer is they are basically aiming to create a fiscal crisis which will provide the environment in which they can basically eliminate the welfare state."
W's vile crew was intent on destroying the bottom 99% as the article continues "So there is a coalition, but there's no question that if you ask what do the core ideologues want, the answer is they want to roll it all back. If you looked at what the Heritage Foundation says, they use the terms "New Deal" and "Great Society" as essentially curse words. Everything Franklin Roosevelt or Lyndon Johnson did to provide a little bit of a cushion for Americans having bad luck is a bad thing, from their point of view."
Krugman thinks that the US main stream media is culpable as the article continues "As for the media, I guess the point is that not very many people understand this stuff. And those who do –- the idea of saying, "My god, these guys are looting the country" -– that's uncool. It's not what you want to do. Right now there's a column in the latest Newsweek entitled, "The Brainteaser of Deficit Math," which basically confirms everything I've been saying all along, that this is wildly irresponsible and it's actually unsustainable. But the tone is kind of distant and cool. I don't know whether he actually doesn't feel any outrage, or just feels he shouldn't do that."
Reagan tried to destroy the social service network by reducing taxes and using a majority of the revenue raised by taxes on the military, but his tax cuts were rescinded. Remember 41 vowing "Read my lips-no more taxes" only to raise taxes to reduce the deficit. Well, only an empty-headed stooge such as W could consider having two wars without raising taxes.
The article continues "Other people in the party, and other people in the coalition, have deluded themselves into thinking that somehow this is all going to be painless, and we're going to grow our way out of the deficit. Other people really don't care about any of that and are viewing their alliance with these people as a way to achieve their social goals -– basically roll back the revolution in social mores over the past few decades.... I think that with the looming disasters of the budget on foreign policy –- and the things that really scare me, which I know we're not going to get into but let's just mention the erosion of civil liberties at home -– I think that, in retrospect, this will be seen in terms of how did the country head over this cliff. I hope I'm wrong. If there's regime change in 2004, and the new man actually manages to steer us away from the disasters I see in front of us, then we'll probably be talking a lot about the long boom that was begun during the Clinton years, and how it was resilient, even to an episode of incredibly bad management. But I don't think that's the way it's going to play out, to be honest. Whatever happens in the election, I think that we've done an extraordinary amount of damage in the last three years." Krugman predicted that the economic impact of Iraq would increase as the article continues "Well, there are levels and levels. I think Iraq is going to cost us $100 billion a year for the indefinite future. Now at one level, you can say, well, that's only about 20 percent of our budget deficit, and it's only about 5 percent of the federal budget. But on the other hand, it's being added onto a very nasty situation."
In the recent election one of Obama's main points was when he was elected that the US would use money we have frittered away on Iraqi reconstruction-which had no audit trail and was therefore nothing other than a huge economic redistribution to W's top 1% chums in the Halliburtons and Blackwaters of the world, into reconstruction of the faltering US infrastructure. The sheer idiocy of building any project-all projects were blown up repeatedly by Iraqi sectarian violence, epitomizes W's incompetence.
How much did W funnel to non-military top 1% chums in Iraq?
The August 12, 2008 article "Report: Spending On Contracts In Iraq Nears $100B" at
states "By the end of this year, the United States will have spent an estimated $100 billion on military contractors in Iraq since the war began in 2003, according to a government report released Tuesday. The report also says the ratio of contractors to U.S. military personnel there is higher than in any other conflict in American history."
Winston is an ex-Social Worker, burnt out by too much indifference regading our weak and weary who had too little interest in politics until the illegal Iraq War started.
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