- Sometimes I swear we're in a Time Machine that works
like an old vinyl turntable, and the record's scratched. We keep repeating
the same ridiculous stuff over and over, done by the same guys, and we
KNOW they're doing it, but somehow every time is like the first time.
Wassup?
To quote from Bill and Ted's excellent adventure: "DJ VU, Dude!
Consider the facts.
In 1988, a guy named George Bush is talking up a storm about the failing
education system, and promises to fix it. He even creates new education
legislation. But later, he needs money to fight Saddam Hussein, because
this guy named Rumsfeld gave bad advice to the President, so Bush was forced
to screw the nation's schools.
One of his great accomplishments in helping the nation's students was to
get around balanced diet requirements for food programs by declaring ketchup
and relish as vegetables, so the Fed could pull money from school food
programs.
The other Reagan/Bush accomplishment was implementing Charles Murray's
Bell Curve, for purposes of dumbing-down the public beyond all recognition,
and making sure all poor colored kids got left behind in the dust.
Now hit 78rpm on your vinyl and fast-forward to 2k.
In 2000, a guy named George Bush is talking up a storm about the failing
education system, and promises to fix it. He even creates new education
legislation. But later, he needs money to fight Saddam Hussein, because
this guy named Rumsfeld gave bad advice to the President, so Bush was forced
to screw the nation's schools.
Despite his 'Leave No Child' Behind Education Act of 2002, which had a
$28 billion budget, Bush is already leaving us eating dust.
Thanks to budgeting for war on Saddam, the Budget of $28 billion has already
been cut in his 2003 budget to $21 billion - before the Act got its first
year's budget. Even when Bush promises something in writing, he finds
an excuse to screw the people over for Big Oil.
While he's been doing this, he's been hiding on his ranch in Texas, where
he's spent 141 days since taking office, according to CBS. That's more
than five months vacation out of less than two years. How many of you
have gotten five months off the last two years?
And keep in mind, YOU'RE not supposed to be balancing the budget, fixing
the economy, and fighting wars on drugs, terrorism, Iraq, Afghanistan,
and America's poor. That's some other guy's job, and he's spent 5 of the
last 23 months 'clearing scrub' and fishing at his ranch, according to
Washington Post.
He's spending so much time at the Texas ranch that it should be named,
so as not to confuse the two houses. DC can stay as the White House, but
the Ranch should be called the White Sheet House - that way, we won't get
confused when the kind of policies we see emanating from this administration
are announced.
The war on Iraq lies are getting so obvious, and Bush's dialogue so cheesy
that even his dad must be telling him, "Junior, you're clutching at
straws here kid. Your lies suck, and you sound like a used car salesman."
Used car salesman is actually a good analogy. The public wasn't buying
the war at the estimated cost in terms of loss of life and taxpayer's dollars
- polls that once showed 80% support have slid to the low 50's, and some
polls show as low as 39% support for a war on Iraq.
So what does the Bush administration do?
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- Gulf War Lite - special discount for teenagers, vagrants,
and poor people who sign up to fight, provided you submit to our mandatory
Anthrax and Smallpox vaccines, provided to you by daddy's pals at Bioport
and Wyeth, who really want to know if your hair falls out, testicles vanish,
or strange pustules appear on your anus after taking the shots.
Because pretty soon, we're gonna make EVERYONE take 'em.
That sounds like fantasy and a commercial right? Well, it's not. HR5170
the Homeland Security Act protects Wyeth and Bioport from being sued by
the American people, should Bush decide to vaccinate 300 million people
and send Wyeth stock into the stratosphere. No soldier who gets sick can
sue either vaccine manufacturer. No citizen will be able to sue either.
Also, the Special Discount Gulf War Lite is not a joke. People didn't
like the war at $200 billion, so the October plan called for an estimated
$100 billion war plan.
Now, Bush will sell you the war for an, 'extra-special just for the USA'
discount of $60 billion.
www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-529089,00.html
Hey, GI, you come fight!
Bomby, Bomby, Cheap, Cheap!
Special bargain! Me give you half price, me bomb them long time!
Ohhh, me so Hawky, me bomb them long time!
You know he's lying of course - they'll burn up $60 billion in bombs and
fuel by day two, if they haven't already spent this much on emergency mobilization
money, national guard and reserve call-ups, and payoffs to foreign countries
to let us use their nations as launch pads for genocide.
But the downside is, we can almost count on our consumer mentality buying
into this 'discount war' tactic and going along with Bush, thinking we're
getting a bargain.
Even if the war costs $60 billion, what else could we get for that money,
which wouldn't involve killing millions of innocent people to make Exxon
even richer?
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- Well, 7 billion gets you the 'Leave No Child Behind'
Act back - 21 billion if we allow that Bush is talking a multi-year Iraq
plan, extending throughout his budget making power into 2005. Another
3.3 billion for the next three years gets back the 3.3 billion per year
from the Homeless programs Bush cut in 2002.
So that's 31 billion, give or take.
You could also get back 1.8 billion times three from mandatory unemployment
insurance spending which Bush cut in 2002. 1.1 billion times three on
discretionary Department of Labor spending which he also cut in 2002.
You could also get back 200 million times three from work force training
programs, and 200 million times three from the Childcare Development Grant
program, which helps provide childcare for low-income families who go off
unemployment and enter the work force.
So that's 41 billion, give or take.
You could get back 800 million times three for the EPA that's been cut
from their budget since 2002. 180 million times three for the Job Youth
Training Program Bush cut.
Call it $42.5 billion.
That would leave PLENTY of money to buy those planes from Boeing outright
for $5 billion that Bush leased from Boeing over the next ten years, and
$3 billion for refitting costs. Rather than cost to taxpayer $26 billion
in lease and refitting expenses, by not invading Iraq and buying to own
instead of leasing from Boeing, the taxpayer's would actually MAKE $18
billion instead of spending $26 billion.
That would still leave $10.5 billion (or $28.5 billion if the Boeing deal
is nixed) for - dare I say it?
PAYING DOWN THE DEFICIT !!!
So, America can invade Iraq, or instead, America could fully-fund the Education
Bill Bush signed, and put back the $7 billion Bush stole before the bill
could see it's first budget year; put back the homeless shelters that have
closed since 2002 which have created a 30% turnaway rate for homeless people
at shelters; shore up unemployment by 10 billion to help the 830,000 people
Bush put off the lists in December (merry freakin' Christmas!); give the
EPA it's budget back; help train poor uneducated kids so they don't end
up as wage slaves; help working single mothers get jobs; get back at least
$18 billion that Bush stole and gave to Boeing in 2002; AND reduce the
budget deficit by $10.5 billion to boot.
War on Iraq doesn't sound like much of a bargain when you look at it like
that, does it?
What say, kill a few million foreigners for Exxon, or help save a few million
Americans and reduce the deficit?
I always wondered how Bush 41 got around the Conflicts of Interest in his
administration during Desert Storm, considering that his entire staff was
invested in Oil, Gas, and Weapons. Thanks to Tom Flocco, I now know how
they did it.
Bush signed a WAIVER of conflict of interest, under executive order, and
then kept it double super extra top secret, so the press wouldn't find
out. But now we have the paper.
<http://www.tomflocco.com/Confllict of Interest Waiver.htm>www.tomflocco.com/Confllict%20of%20Interest%20Waiver.htm
A legal right to steal, as ordered by the President of the United States,
without consulting Congress. How much more cynical can you get?
Want to bet Junior has done precisely the same thing? That's why they
can say with a straight face that there's no conflicts of interest - he
probably waived them by executive order in 2001.
But I'm ranting. There's a lot more broken record stuff in this administration.
I encourage all of you to watch Robin William's new live stand up routine
on HBO.
As much as it loathes me to plug AOL Time Warner, who destroyed CNN, and
got Colin Powell's son to cast the deciding vote on the AOL/Time Warned
merger while Colin Powell was a director of AOL, everyone should watch
Robin William's standup routine on HBO. You might even learn a thing or
two.
Robin Williams was right. This Bush isn't a new POTUS - he's version 2.0
- a Beta version with bugs in the software.
From the 1980's until 1990, the US was arming Saddam Hussein. Donald Rumsfeld
even shook the guy's hand in 1983, before sending Saddam a whole whack
of chemical, biological, and conventional weapons. They even set him up
his own chemical weapon factory in Iraq, through Wackenhut, a corporation
once owned and operated by the Carlyle Group, where G H W Bush now works.
They were also arming Iran, and others, to fight Saddam, who was created
to be G H W Bush's boogeyman.
It's happening all over again. As the center of the universe begins to
shift from the Middle East to the Caspian, there's a need to make a new
boogeyman for the next decade. This time, they started early.
According to Federation of American Scientists, the arming of the '-stans'
began in 1993, coinciding with the first US Oil and Gas deals with the
Caspian region.
www.fas.org/asmp/profiles/aid_db.php?regionin=euro&ctryin=
- %&fy1in=1990&fy2in=2001&appin=0
Military aid for Kazakhstan in 1993, coinciding with the first Chevron
deal in the -stans.
Military aid for Georgia, a buffer state blocking Russian expansion, starting
in 1994.
Military aid for Kyrgyzstan in 1994. Military aid for Turkmenistan in
1993. Military aid for Uzbekistan in 1995. And now in 2002, after getting
their pipeline, military aid for Afghanistan.
This is a trick as old as empire. Arm everybody, lie to each of them about
the other, get them to fight, and divide and conquer until the mineral
resources are all gone, after which they become client states and wage
slaves for the remainder of the life of the empire.
So who's going to be the next Boogeyman?
They may have already tipped their hand, with this recent NY Times article
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www.nytimes.com/2003/01/05/magazine/05TURKMENISTAN.html?pagewanted=1&8hpib
Saparmurat Niyazov is the Turkmenistan dictator who controls a gazillion
barrels of oil and gas. But the US is giving him military aid anyway,
every year since 1993, making sure he stays in power. They've even secured
him a pipeline deal with Afghanistan and Pakistan, to help solidify his
economic base.
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- He's America's friend and ally. A crazy man who oppresses
his people, thumps his chest at his neighbors, and has nothing in his country
representing democracy.
Another, more menacing boogeyman may emerge, but this administration is
taking no chances, and making sure there's lots of armed, nasty people
running the -stans.
Any similarities to the Middle East are pure coincidence. This is not
about oil, we'd never fight for oil... we fight only for freedom and democracy,
except when someone has oil, in which case he's evil, and surely we must
fight evil. So it's about fighting evil stupid, not about oil.
What's that you say?
WE made him evil and armed him?
So?
That was ANOTHER administration, not us, never. We're about fighting evil.
And if you try to prove differently, we'll pull 8000 pages out of your
report, and then tell everyone the report has gaping holes in it. So there.
There IS a major difference between King George I and King George II though.
They're both liars, but George II is both a moron AND a liar.
George I lied about a LOT of things, including 'no new taxes'. But he
lied about the taxes because in the end he had to keep the taxes, so as
not to destroy the economy beyond repair with unrecoverable debt, destroying
the world economy in the process.
George II is just plain stupid. He's not lying about giving tax cuts,
but he's giving this new $600 billion 'stimulus' package tax cut to rich
people, while lying about everything else. HALF of this tax cut is in
the form of dividends for stock holders, which discounts 2/3 of the country
from getting any cuts, except to their social programs next year in order
to pay for Bush's tax cut for the rich.
Bush is racking up the highest debt increases in the entire history of
the world. He's doing it on purpose, either because he's retarded, or
because he just plain doesn't care about anyone but the Bush family and
their pals.
Sounds a lot like 1980-1992, doesn't it?
DZj vu, dude!
Before we sign off, try this Pop Quiz to test your knowledge of 20th century
History -
1. Which nation has killed the most innocent civilians during time of war?
a) Nazi Germany
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- b) Iraq
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- c) Communist China
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- d) United States of America
2. Which nation was the first in modern History to make the forced sterilization
of minorities legal?
a) Nazi Germany
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- b) Iraq
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- c) Communist China
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- d) United States of America
3. Which nation STILL has forced sterilizations as the law of the land
on its books?
a) Germany
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- b) Iraq
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- c) Communist China
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- d) United States of America
4. Which nation maintained the most consecutive years of racial segregation?
a) Nazi Germany
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- b) Iraq
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- c) Communist China
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- d) United States of America
5. Which nation has never provided free health care for its citizens?
a) Nazi Germany
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- b) Iraq
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- c) Communist China
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- d) United States of America
6. Of the nations who have passed laws recognizing their own atrocities,
which one has yet to pay one dime of promised reparations to its victims?
a) Germany
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- b) Iraq
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- c) Communist China
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- d) United States of America
7. Which nation is the only one to use nuclear weapons against human beings?
a) Germany
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- b) Iraq
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- c) Communist China
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- d) United States of America
8. Which nation has the most prisoners in its jails?
a) Germany
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- b) Iraq
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- c) Communist China
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- d) United States of America
9. Which nation has occupied the most foreign countries?
a) Nazi Germany
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- b) Iraq
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- c) Communist China
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- d) United States of America
10. Which nation does not allow any member of a political party to vote
for the nationÕs leader?
a) Germany
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- b) Iraq
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- c) Communist China
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- d) United States of America
11. Which nation created the sorting machines used by the Nazis to round
up Jews, union members, communists, and dissenters according to Hitler's
specifications?
a) Nazi Germany
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- b) Iraq
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- c) Communist China
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- d) United States of America
12. Which nation today has the most war criminal Nazi SS Officers and Nazi
Scientists working for it?
a) Germany
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- b) Iraq
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- c) Communist China
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- d) United States of America
1. d - the United States has killed more civilians than any other empire
in history.
2. d - the USA had forced sterilization laws a generation before the Nazis.
In 1933, American financiers sent a team of scientists and lawyers to
Germany to teach Hitler how to set up and run a forced sterilization program.
3. d - the Supreme Court decision legalizing forced sterilizations in America
has never been overturned nor rescinded by executive order.
4. d - segregation was law in the USA for almost 200 years.
5. d - Iraq, Nazi Germany, and China all have or had free health care.
6. d - Germany has paid reparations to the Jews. America has yet to honor
its promise of reparations for slavery, or paid reparations for its collaboration
with the Nazis during WW II.
7. d - the USA, in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
8. d - there are more than 2 million in US prisonsÉ twice as many
as in Communist China.
9. d - the USA has invaded nearly 100 different nations.
10. d - according to Chief Justice William Rehnquist in Bush v Gore, Americans
do not have a constitutional right to vote for president. They vote for
electors, who can vote as they so choose in several states.
11. d - the sorting machines were built by IBM
12. d - 50,000 Nazi SS officers and scientists were brought to the USA
and Latin America by the US State department under Project Paperclip.
Many still work for Republican friendly think-tanks and companies to this
day, writing policy papers for George W Bush, while Nelson Mandela can't
get his phone calls returned by the White House. No former Nazi SS Officers
work for the Democratic Party.
Peace
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