Republicans Bungle Economy Yet Again

Greetings one and all, so good of you to drop by,

The Republicans are great at winning (or fixing) elections recently; they
have discovered the sociological axiom that it is easy to fool the voters
with folksy, down-home, know-nothing candidates, like our beloved Bungles W.
Bush. Now, I like W; I like folksy, down-home country folks as does
everyone. It's just that when these folksy folks are elected, they bungle
the economy, plus more than a few other things with a blizzard of
know-nothing incompetence. Here is the Republican record (most voters can
be hypnotized into ignoring these facts with a dose of more folksiness):

1. A $455 billion deficit that will suck capital from new businesses,
raise taxes and increase interest rates. There was a 200M surplus in the
last year of the Clinton administration.

2. An unemployment rate of 6.4 per cent. Don't worry, Republicans, your
folksy Teflon will prevent the electorate from noticing.

3. Corporate malfeasance and fraud. Enron (name changed to Moron, WorldCom
(changed to WorldCon after bankruptcy), Global Crossing (changed to Global
Double-Crossing after restructuring). The voters and investors will hardly
notice once the Republicans throw a few pep rallies. Rah Rah, Republican
High School.

4. Record corporate welfare. The Republicans failed to pass a
Welfare-to-Work bill that would enable corporations to be more
self-sufficient. The bill even included day-care and bus fare for
corporations without their own car.

5. Bungled security on September 11. Security warnings were ignored and a
chance to stop Al-Qaeda were bungled under the current administration. The
top echelons of the administration were asleep at the switch. Folksy talk
made the administration even more popular, despite the facts. The American
people did not panic, but the financial leadership of the country did. The
panic of our business and investment leaders helped to send the economy into
a tailspin.

6. Bungled diplomacy prior to the Iraq war (Iraq II, to be more
precise--the first chance to 'liberate' Iraq was bungled by senior Bush,
leaving the Kurds and Shiites to be massacred by Hussein). France and
Germany would have come in on our side had we provided the WMD evidence they
had asked for. Instead, the Republicans resorted to slandering and
vilifying the French especially, because the French saw through the faked
pretext for war. The fooled-by-folksiness public joined in, smashing wine
bottles and renaming French Fries to whatever. Now, the aftermath is
bungled--if the Bushies cannot run our economy, how can we expect them to
set up one in Iraq?

7. The Patriot Act is unpatriotic and is an affront to the Constitution.
The Not-So-Folksy Ashcroft says that the suspension of basic human rights to
foreign nationals will make us safe and secure. Fear and hysteria got this
neo-Stalinist bill passed. Whatever happened to America as Home of the
Brave? I would rather be free and dead, than accept this kind of security.
This bill subverts the Constitution, but folksy talk will again prevent the
electorate from noticing. They even want to add another 'Act', Patriot II,
which will add Democrats as enemy combatants.

8. Another attempt to steal an election in California. It worked in
Florida, I gotta get me a brother that is governor of a state, too. The
folksy talk will blame California's woes on its democratically-elected
governor, rather than a bungling Administration or on the energy price
gouging that has ripped that state.

9. Bush fired his set of economic advisors, remember? Don't believe me? It
is on page 113 of your corporate, folksy news rag, right behind the
gardening
and astrology pages.

10. Republicans Equal Recession. Hoover, Eisenhower, Nixon, Reagan, George
the First, George the Second.

11. Recent Republicans Equal Fiscal Disaster. Teflon Ron Reagan added two
trillion to the Federal debt, George I continued the legacy, George II will
try to nab a half-trill this year.

12. Repeal of inheritance tax will set up hereditary wealth concentrations
that mirror those of the Robber Baron days. The electorate was fooled by
folksy talk that repeal would affect their estates in an appreciable way.
George II has based his economic vision on the Brazilian model (gated and
fenced wealthy communities, paramilitary control over the rest of the
population, poverty for 95 percent of population, rampant human rights
violations). Want a class system? Now, you got one.

13. Outsourcing of American skilled IT and engineering jobs overseas in
record numbers. American workers, better get yourself an H1-B visa.
Perhaps, you can get a job in another country with it; don't expect to get
one here unless you are ready to drop your salary from seventy thousand to
seventeen thousand. Pretend, with Pollyanna, folksy thinking, that new jobs
will created here that will make use of your skills.

Want to live in a culvert in future? Vote Republican.

Republicans Bungle Economy Yet Again

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Fooled By Folksy Republicans	Republicans Bungle Economy Yet Again Greetings one and all, so good of you to drop by, The Republicans are great at winning (or fixing) elections recently; they have discovered the sociological axiom that it is easy to fool the voters with folksy, down-home, know-nothing candidates, like our beloved Bungles W. Bush. Now, I like W; I like folksy, down-home country folks as does everyone. It's just that when these folksy folks are elected, they bungle the economy, plus more than a few other things with a blizzard of know-nothing incompetence. Here is the Republican record (most voters can be hypnotized into ignoring these facts with a dose of more folksiness): 1. A $455 billion deficit that will suck capital from new businesses, raise taxes and increase interest rates. There was a 200M surplus in the last year of the Clinton administration. 2. An unemployment rate of 6.4 per cent. Don't worry, Republicans, your folksy Teflon will prevent the electorate from noticing. 3. Corporate malfeasance and fraud. Enron (name changed to Moron, WorldCom (changed to WorldCon after bankruptcy), Global Crossing (changed to Global Double-Crossing after restructuring). The voters and investors will hardly notice once the Republicans throw a few pep rallies. Rah Rah, Republican High School. 4. Record corporate welfare. The Republicans failed to pass a Welfare-to-Work bill that would enable corporations to be more self-sufficient. The bill even included day-care and bus fare for corporations without their own car. 5. Bungled security on September 11. Security warnings were ignored and a chance to stop Al-Qaeda were bungled under the current administration. The top echelons of the administration were asleep at the switch. Folksy talk made the administration even more popular, despite the facts. The American people did not panic, but the financial leadership of the country did. The panic of our business and investment leaders helped to send the economy into a tailspin. 6. Bungled diplomacy prior to the Iraq war (Iraq II, to be more precise--the first chance to 'liberate' Iraq was bungled by senior Bush, leaving the Kurds and Shiites to be massacred by Hussein). France and Germany would have come in on our side had we provided the WMD evidence they had asked for. Instead, the Republicans resorted to slandering and vilifying the French especially, because the French saw through the faked pretext for war. The fooled-by-folksiness public joined in, smashing wine bottles and renaming French Fries to whatever. Now, the aftermath is bungled--if the Bushies cannot run our economy, how can we expect them to set up one in Iraq? 7. The Patriot Act is unpatriotic and is an affront to the Constitution. The Not-So-Folksy Ashcroft says that the suspension of basic human rights to foreign nationals will make us safe and secure. Fear and hysteria got this neo-Stalinist bill passed. Whatever happened to America as Home of the Brave? I would rather be free and dead, than accept this kind of security. This bill subverts the Constitution, but folksy talk will again prevent the electorate from noticing. They even want to add another 'Act', Patriot II, which will add Democrats as enemy combatants. 8. Another attempt to steal an election in California. It worked in Florida, I gotta get me a brother that is governor of a state, too. The folksy talk will blame California's woes on its democratically-elected governor, rather than a bungling Administration or on the energy price gouging that has ripped that state. 9. Bush fired his set of economic advisors, remember? Don't believe me? It is on page 113 of your corporate, folksy news rag, right behind the gardening and astrology pages. 10. Republicans Equal Recession. Hoover, Eisenhower, Nixon, Reagan, George the First, George the Second. 11. Recent Republicans Equal Fiscal Disaster. Teflon Ron Reagan added two trillion to the Federal debt, George I continued the legacy, George II will try to nab a half-trill this year. 12. Repeal of inheritance tax will set up hereditary wealth concentrations that mirror those of the Robber Baron days. The electorate was fooled by folksy talk that repeal would affect their estates in an appreciable way. George II has based his economic vision on the Brazilian model (gated and fenced wealthy communities, paramilitary control over the rest of the population, poverty for 95 percent of population, rampant human rights violations). Want a class system? Now, you got one. 13. Outsourcing of American skilled IT and engineering jobs overseas in record numbers. American workers, better get yourself an H1-B visa. Perhaps, you can get a job in another country with it; don't expect to get one here unless you are ready to drop your salary from seventy thousand to seventeen thousand. Pretend, with Pollyanna, folksy thinking, that new jobs will created here that will make use of your skills. Want to live in a culvert in future? Vote Republican. Republicans Bungle Economy Yet Again