Georgie Porgie, spent all the money and made them cry.

by Ziks511 May 17, 2006 5:45PM PDT

http://metrotimes.com/editorial/story.asp?id=9216

by Jack Lessenberry

"Let's say you have a brother who just can't manage money or pay his bills. He's in debt up to his eyeballs. His kids aren't getting adequate medical care or education because of his spending.
Five years ago, he did have money, but blew it all, and more, on a wasteful and destructive foreign adventure that made your family a lot of enemies. Last week, however, he topped that.

"He arranged to borrow a whole lot, most of it, presumably, from the Chinese. But he didn't use it to pay his bills; he gave most of it to a bunch of millionaires who didn't need it, to curry favor with them.

"So you tell me: Is it time that we stepped in and did an intervention, or whatever it's called, before our family is ruined forever?

"Guess what: Surprise, surprise ? this is a story about you, dear comrades! Your recklessly insolvent brother is our own smirking, stoop-shouldered George W. Bush, the worst president in history.

"Today the press is so weak, and we are so used to his outrages, that we barely noticed the latest atrocity ? another $70 billion tax cut, nearly all of it for the well-to-do to wealthy. The worst part is not that it is unfair, though it is. The worst part is that it hastens the collapse of our economy. The Seattle Times quoted Mark Zandi, chief economist for Moody's Economy.com, a financial consulting service based in Philadelphia.

""If you do the math," he said "under any kind of reasonable economic assumptions the budget deficit will be 10 percent of gross domestic product 20 years from now. That's untenable. The economy will break before we get there."

"That's from a conservative investor. Even if you are totally in sympathy with Puddin'head George's values, share his belief we should be launching a military crusade to save the world from radical Islam, and even if you think the war in Vietnam ? oops ? Iraq can be "won," you cannot be happy about his wrecking of our own economy.

"George W. Bush makes the wildest liberal in Massachusetts look like a sensible money manager, as the conservative Detroit News noted when it declined to endorse him for re-election two years ago. Alone among any president since Thomas Jefferson, he has never vetoed any bill."

Just don't tell me it hasn't happened, or that it's Clinton's fault, or that it will be the fault of any of Georgie's successors. I've been saying he's screwed the economy and the people of the US ever since he invaded Iraq without repealing the tax cut. You guys have just begun to see what punitive taxation is like, and it won't even be for social programs. Nero's fiddling folks, run for the fire hoses.

Sure does make a mockery of that Harvard MBA though doesn't it, except nobody in the class, or even the University thought it was his own work. Word is he bought his grades using the services of the juniors at the law firm of that lawyer Cheney shot.

Rob

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... laws that allow the dual citizenship so Rob can still vote in this country. I too, hope that is changed.

Georgie Porgie, spent all the money and made them cry.

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