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October 23, 2008
Economic Armageddon
The Religious Right has helped put us all in our current economic bind. By
electing George W. Bush and falling for his "I'm one of y'all" crap, those 78
percenters (the percentage of voters citing "values" as their main issue and who
voted for President Bush) have sentenced our nation to a generation (at least)
in the economic desert with little water in our canteens.
I guess only the "true believers" would support his agenda today.
In recent Bush-years, we have heard of the coming of The Rapture - The End of
Days - and that those of us who weren't "true believers" wouldn't get to Heaven.
But if good deeds count for something shouldn't the health and welfare of all of
the people matter more than just that of the few?
George W. Bush, with the help of the friendliest US Congress and Senate a
President has ever had, have brought us to a point where we are experiencing a
unique phenomenon.
We are in the midst of an Economic Armageddon.
Today, those same "morals voters" are also lining up to support John McCain.
McCain is not exactly known as a religious man. There aren't any videos of
McCain going to Church nor are there any talks about God from the man who has to
count on "moral voters" to even stay in this race.
The funny thing about this is that Barack Obama is a religious man who does
attend church regularly and has done so as far back as anyone can remember.
Obama does so even as crazy people at McCain rallies call him a "terrorist", a
"Muslim" and an "Arab", and as his newest big-time supporter, former Republican
Secretary of State Colin Powell said:
"I'm also troubled by, not what Senator McCain says, but what members of the
party say. And it is permitted to be said such things as, "Well, you know that
Mr. Obama is a Muslim." Well, the correct answer is, he is not a Muslim; he's a
Christian. He's always been a Christian.
"But the really right answer is, "What if he is?" Is there something wrong with
being a Muslim in this country? The answer's no, that's not America. Is there
something wrong with some seven-year-old Muslim-American kid believing that he
or she could be president? Yet, I have heard senior members of my own party drop
the suggestion, "He's a Muslim and he might be associated [with] terrorists."
This is not the way we should be doing it in America."
-Powell
By keeping the Religious Right in line, and with the prospects that they will
stay in that line for McCain and Sarah Palin - the woman brought into this race
just to keep them in that line - the Economic Armageddon we've been experiencing
will continue along the same path which has been plowed for it by the Bush
administration.
Why call it Economic Armageddon? The answer is simple: it is the end of the US
middle class' days. What Osama bin-Laden and al-Qaeda weren't able to do with
the terrorist attacks of 911 - destroy the West's financial industry and
institutions - the policies of "The Wealthy First and Last" which the Bush
administration have set in place, and which John McCain promises to continue,
will end our existence.
The United States Democracy was called an "experiment" by European leaders after
General Cornwallis left for Britain in defeat. It's death knoll was chimed
numerous times but, somehow, the Democracy survived. It survived a second war
with England, two twentieth century world wars, a Great Depression and even its
own internal Civil War. And so has its middle class.
It's taken foolish economic policies made without oversight, rules, regulations
or any kind of care to force us into this Economic Armageddon we are
experiencing today.
As our nation was being thrust into this economic debacle of historic
proportions, President Bush, John McCain and their surrogates kept on telling us
things like, "the fundamentals of our economy are sound," and "all boats will
soon rise with our rising tide."
Too bad that our anchors have short chains and we're floating in a rubber raft
named "The US Middle Class".
If these past few weeks have taught all of anything it should have taught us all
this: That Trickle-Down as a form of economic policy doesn't work and the US
middle class is not only the driving force of our nation's economy, but quite
possibly, the entire world's.
And that makes this Economic Armageddon a global catastrophe.
The "true believers" aren't the ones who will be saved from this Economic
Armageddon by the current administration or a McCain presidency. Only those who
can afford the price will be allowed to enter that Heaven.
Those Religious Righties will have to hang tough with the rest of us in the
dingy...
... and I think it's got a hole in it.
-Noah Greenberg
McCain's Demeanor
At the last debate, as I watched McCain, I was reminded of a petty, pouty child
who was angry that he was not getting his way. So he put out his bottom lip and
crossed his little arms and pouted the entire time. While he grits those yellow
teeth, I sit and watch in fear that this petty, petty man could be the one who
has his finger on the button. It's even worse that Caribou Barbie might end up
as president if anything happens to McCain. He does not seem to be in the best
of health - mentally or physically. I really can't imagine that Sarah Palin will
be anything more than a joke punchline after the election. She's irritated over
half the country with her "soccer mom, Joe-Six-Pack, stupid speeches." I think
she will be like Britney and Paris - fading away because no one cares anymore
what she's doing.
-Sheila Burleson
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-Noah Greenberg