In other words: A discussion of The Bush Administration
Ignoromics
Anyone who's paying attention understands by now that putting Bush in charge of the U.S. dollar is like putting a crackhead in charge of your mother's furniture. Expressions such as "global hegemony begging with a tin cup" and "deficits as far as the eye can see" and "balance of trade sucks" coupled with "permanent tax cuts" and "tax cuts to stimulate the economy" and "tax cuts to create jobs" and "eliminating capital gains and estate taxes" equals Wile E. Coyote running off the mesa in a cloud of roadrunner dust and poking his finger through it only to discover that he is fact standing on nothing but the futile hope that he might not plummet straight down, just as the lower half of his body plummets and he stares at us wild-eyed in the final second before the rest follows.
Right at this moment, my fellows, we are that pair of desperate eyes. The only thing propping us up -- remember, Bush's trillion-dollars deficit is 3 times what Reagan's was -- are China and the other Asian Tigers' buying our currency so that they can sell their products to us cheap. You may have noticed that other homey expression on everyone's lips, "outsourcing." What do you think that means, as far as the weak dollar is concerned? Here's a hint: Now Asia and Malaysia and India have everything they need to not only make the products but sell them cheaply to each other. What do they need us for? Technology? Hah! I doubt it. When was the last time you had a computer problem you had no idea how to solve? Yesterday? When you called the Help line, who answered? India, right? With an "American" sounding name at the other end of the satellite call? You really think Americans have the technology edge? Have you been to Stanford or Columbia lately? Take a look. According to our Moral President, "the jury is still out on evolution." How's that for 21st century technological global leadership? Do you think Bush even knows how to turn on a computer? Only when he wants to contact "The Internets."
Which brings me back to my original point: Your dollar is fast becoming Joker money. Did you notice last week how the Asian Tigers were divesting themselves of U.S. assets faster than a dealer with his drugs in a raid? I could hear the toilet flushing clear across the other side of the world. China was selling dollars as fast as it could. What do you think happens when they do that? For you economically challenged, here it is: the bill comes due -- and not just sort of, I mean all at once.
So what does Bush do? Cut taxes, of course. In other words, steal the money while it's still worth something, then use it to wage a Middle East war to prevent all those countries from divesting themselves of petrodollars. That's what this goddamn war is about: the fucking dollar. Bush doesn't actually believe in capitalism, because that involves competition. When was the last time Bush ever competed? No, he destroys the playing field. This is called "leveling it." Grab the oilfields and fuck the other countries. Why else wouldn't they go along? Because we want it all, we're not sharing the prize. Let them buy their fucking euros; what difference does it make when you own the game?
Here's the difference: you can't own it. That other homily, "You break it, you own it" is a bunch of crap. We own nothing. In a war, the only thing you own is the ground you're standing on at that second. Whether you're a genius or a moron, this is always true. It doesn't matter how patriotic you are, never confuse a flag with a fact, because your life depends on it.
So Karl Rove, in true Goebbels style, has all of us at each other's throats about "moral values" as war explodes and the dollar shrivels. You'd think anyone paying attention might stand up on a chair and shout it to the rafters, but all we get are adages about "good" and "evil" and what constitutes the definition of "marriage."
I got news: All of us -- red and blue -- are being fucked up the ass, and none of us can afford a lawyer, who can't practice anyway, since the law no longer applies. Get used to it.
Feel the weight of a nickel lately? Light, isn't it?
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