The U.S. economy is faltering. Family debt is on the rise, benefits are disappearing, the deficit is skyrocketing, and the mortgage crisis has worsened. Conservatives have attempted to deflect attention from the crisis, by blaming the media’s negative coverage and insisting the United States is not headed toward a recession, despite what economists are predicting. The Bush administration’s latest move is to simply hide the data. Forbes has awarded EconomicIndicators.gov one of its “Best of the Web” awards…. Yet the Bush administration has decided to shut down this site because of “budgetary constraints,” effective March 1
So, what’s a President to do when the economic news isn’t great and the economic indicators are even worse? Well, if you’re Our Glorious and Benevolent Leader © , you simply eradimicate the source of the news. No news source, no bad news. Problem solved, no?
Then again, what else could we reasonably expect from a President and an Administration Hell-bent on living for the moment and postponing the day of reckoning onto our children and grandchildren? What else could tax cuts and record spending be expected to produce but record levels of debt that are continually pushed off onto future generations? We have a seemingly endless supply of money to throw at a senseless, immoral war in Iraq. Unfortunately, we’re too broke to rebuild New Orleans and the rest of the Gulf Coast, two-and-a-half years after Hurricane Katrina laid waste to that part of the country. We can rebuild Iraq, but we can’t rebuild America? WTF??
We’ve lived through eight years of The Worst President EVER © spending money like a drunken sailor. The challenge for the next President will be to clean up the mess- no mean feat given the mess this sorry excuse for a human being President will be leaving behind. That will this President’s real legacy.
Silly me; I’d always thought that Conservatives were the ones who want to reign in what they view as wasteful spending. And aren’t Democrats the ones that Conservatives always deride as “tax and spend Liberals”? Boy, the more things change…the more they change, eh?
I fear for the future that our children and grandchildren will inherit. I’m afraid that the next President will not be able to undo the damage in four or even eight years- and that’s if the next President is a Democrat. If that President is Bush Light © John McCain…well, you can pretty much kiss any sort of reform (never mind an end to the war in Iraq) goodbye.
Bush Light © has even promised that there will be no new taxes in a McCain Presidency. So much for addressing the 800-lb. gorilla that is the ballooning deficit.
Just in case you were wondering, the road to Hell really IS paved with Republicans….
