"..Journalists around the world are watching images from the hurricane's aftermath -- and are shocked that a country so mighty could have fallen so far..." (Hurricane Katrina shakes global faith in U.S. Pueng Vongs, Pacific News Service)
"..."Nature Lays a Superpower Low" reads the headline of an editorial in The Hindu, a daily in Chennai. Arvind Sivaramakrishnan, commenting in another article in the paper, writes that Katrina exposed "squalor that would shame a Third World country, as well as racial and political divisions reminiscent of apartheid South Africa.".."
This is what George W. Bush has done to this country. This is what those blithering idiots of the conservative right have done.
Anyone who voted for George W. Bush, and who still supports this fanatic is also a mass murderer.
"...Many foreign media focus on the Bush administration's failure to respond adequately in the aftermath of the storm. An editorial in the Taiwan-based, Chinese-language World Journal by Chen Sheyao blames the Bush administration for treating its own citizens like terrorists.
"Images of tanks roaming the streets of New Orleans, soldiers attempting to inact martial law: This is more like Iraq than America." The war in Iraq, Chen writes, "has taken a surprising emotional toll on Americans: everyone is now a possible terrorist. Soldiers who were trained to point their guns at Iraqi civilians are now pointing their guns at innocent evacuees in New Orleans."
South Korea's Pusan Daily also makes reference to the ongoing dilemma in Iraq and Afghanistan, finding it ironic that while the United States has spent billions of dollars and exhausted its military resources in dealing with the affairs of other countries, America cannot prevent the levees in New Orleans from being breeched..."
And now Bush is attempting to pay out billions of dollars to rebuild New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, without a care as to where this money will come from. You see, he is also in the process of making his absurd tax cuts permenent. So here we are, as the foreign press has reported, attempting to fund an enormously expensive war and a massive re-construction while we are cutting taxes. This type of insanity is only possible under a leadership that places ideology over reality.
There are a lot of very foolish people in this country who believe that a civilization can be built and maintained without taxes. They really believe this. They really believe the lies of Bush, that we Americans are over-taxed. Bullshit! AMericans don't have a clue about what taxation really is. In Europe, their gas costs triple what is levied in the U.S. because of huge tax additions. But the Europeans, unlike America, realize that if you want the benefits of civilization you have to pay for it. YOu have to pay taxes. In the U.S., it would appear that having something for nothing is the prevailing belief.
Let's get this straight. You want low crime, you want good streets, you want regular trash pickup, you want the Government to come save your soggy ass after a disaster? Then you damn well better be paying taxes.
The only problem I have with taxes is how they are spent. I want my taxes spent for the good of all AMericans, not just to line the pockets of Bush supporters. Haliburton has already been flagged for millions of my hard earned dollars to clean up the South. Sure someone has to do it...but how about we give the tax money to small businesses and locals to clean up their own neighborhoods. They get the money to start over, they are right there willing to work, and they get the pride of doing the job right. Of course there should be federal oversight, honest federal oversight. But lets support the local people to do this job, not hire some fat-cat outfit that has already stolen billions of dollars from the federal treasury.
Well, as the foreign press reports, the United States of America has fallen on horrendous times. Under George W. Bush, this country has become a pariah nation, hated and feared by all, mired in a ruinous and pointless war, economically bankrupt and digging deeper into debt, ignoring the real peril of global warming even after it contributed to the worst natural disaster in this country's history, and to top it all off, we are no longer even a democracy.
We have been betrayed by George W. Bush and his ilk, and by our fellow Americans who are to lazy and too stupid to see the truth.
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Bill Maher:
"Mr. President, this job can't be fun for you anymore. There's no more money to spend. You used up all of that. You can't start another war because you also used up the army. And now, darn the luck, the rest of your term has become the Bush family nightmare: helping poor people.
Yeah, listen to your mom. The cupboard's bare, the credit card's maxed out, and no one is speaking to you: mission accomplished! Now it's time to do what you've always done best: lose interest and walk away. Like you did with your military service. And the oil company. And the baseball team. It's time. Time to move on and try the next fantasy job. How about cowboy or spaceman?!
Now, I know what you're saying. You're saying that there's so many other things that you, as president, could involve yourself in...Please don't. I know, I know, there's a lot left to do. There's a war with Venezuela, and eliminating the sales tax on yachts. Turning the space program over to the church. And Social Security to Fannie Mae. Giving embryos the vote. But, sir, none of that is going to happen now. Why? Because you govern like Billy Joel drives. You've performed so poorly I'm surprised you haven't given yourself a medal. You're a catastrophe that walks like a man.
Herbert Hoover was a shitty president, but even he never conceded an entire metropolis to rising water and snakes.
On your watch, we've lost almost all of our allies, the surplus, four airliners, two Trade Centers, a piece of the Pentagon and the City of New Orleans...Maybe you're just not lucky!
I'm not saying you don't love this country. I'm just wondering how much worse it could be if you were on the other side. So, yes, God does speak to you, and what he's saying is, "Take a hint." "
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At this point, I am not sure there is a politician in this country, of any stripe, that is worth the powder to blow him or her up. I watch the Roberts hearings and marvel at the inepptitude of democrats and republicans alike. They appear helpless and befuddled when someone refuses to answer a question. Here is a Hint: Who's in charge here? Roberts, the guy asking for this new job as Chief of Supreme Court? or is it the Senators and Congressmen who will decide if he gets the job? What do you think would happen if Roberts was told, "Answer our goddamn question's completely and to our satisfaction or you don't get the job!"
What would happen if you or I went to a job interview and refused to answer the prospective employer's questions?
Fucken politicans are worthless.
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