"I Never Thought I'd Miss Nixon..." - bumper sticker seen today
The Federal Reserve reported today that incomes fell between 2001 and 2004. This news comes on the heels of reports concerning the widening gap between rich and poor and that the wealthiest of our citizens are the ones that benefit from Bush's capital gains cuts.
Yeah, so much for conservatives taking care of the bottom line. Like Bush spending $1.6 BILLION dollars on spin, advertisement, and general propagandistic smoke screens to either push his apocalypse agenda or to obfuscate some felony performed by his administration. Or the third of a billion spent on dealing with the "Don't ask, don't tell" rules. Then again, both parties are guilty in that one.
Can't trust the GOP on the economy. But I'm sure they are great at national defense, right?
Oops. In an apparent effort to make the military reflect the White House, the Pentagon has increased the amount of waivers it gives to criminals, drug dealers and other fine, upstanding lawbreakers from which to make soldiers. Nothing like drunks, liars, thieves, and random felons running around with guns defending America. Then again, we are led by warmongering draft dodgers. So I guess we deserve what we've got.
In big news, BushCo has authorized the sale of an English company in charge of six of our major ports to a government-owned company in the UAE. The above link also has some disturbing factiods about the UAE and it's ties to terrorists. Bush swears this is an above-board deal. Considering the national security issues, you'd think Rumsfeld would have been consulted. He wasn't, even though he also sits on the board of the Committee on Foreign Investments in the United States, which "unanimously" approved the sale on February 13.
And depending on which reports you want to believe, either Bush himself was - I know, cheap shot - clueless about the whole deal or he was part of a shady, dirty, unsafe, and likely illegal secret agreement with the UAE to give them almost no accountability in taking on the ports job.
Personally, I'm not sure why ANY foreign country is in charge of our ports. That seems like one thing we shouldn't be actively outsourcing. I also question why no one seemed to know this was happening: not Congress, not the Defense Department, Bush, and most certainly not the cities involved. So why the rush? And why just hand the keys of our cities to a nation that, yes, lets us keep bases on their soil, and yes, was one of three nations to recognize the Taliban as the once-official government of Afghanistan?
Doesn't appear to be sound national security to me. Sounds more like the same quasi-legal, un-American, reckless cronyism we've come to expect from Bush.
Just in case you forgot: the GOP is trying to make Bush president forever. It's an old submittal but word is that they may push for it again soon. So much for strict Constitutionalists.
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