And after almost seven years of neo-con dumbassitude and Bushonomics down south, it behooves us to check in and see how things are going. Let's see here:
- Trashed currency? Check.
- Eviscerated economy? Check.
- Record national debt? Check.
- Housing market in tatters? Check.
- Rampant increase in bankruptcies? Check.
- Massive, illegal violations of privacy? Check.
- Jaw-dropping oil prices? Check.
- Increasing numbers of uninsured? Check.
- Rising infant mortality rate? Check.
- Rising maternal mortality rate? Check.
- Skyrocketing hunger and homelessness? Check.
- Erosion of civil rights? Check.
- Deteriorating national infrastructure? Check.
- Crumbling military readiness? Check.
- Diminished international reputation and loss of credibility? Check.
- And lots and lots of dead Americans. Check.
In short, pretty much what you expected. At least they're predictable.
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Yeah, but Al Gore was boring.
One other point: this is how top Republicans like it. All of these things are features, not bugs, as far as they're concerned.
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The Globe and Mail seems to be chatting up the strength of the US economy while issuing dire warnings that a weak US economy will hurt Canada. So, we should all be confident and afraid at the same time, which probably means we should just let the US invade.
I'd go with "seal the borders" myself, but that's just me being petty and parochial.
By Chet Scoville, at 9:36 AM
Correct. The neo-con philosophy is that government doesn't work. What better way to prove that philosophy by infiltrating the government at all levels and monumentally fucking up so that it collapses.
Then you can sit back and make with the 'I told you so'
Yeah, but that's been known for a long time. Why do people still vote Republican? They obviously must agree with that, or they just don't seem to appreciate the incoherence.
I used to believe that a lot of Rightists were voting for smaller, more efficient, less intrusive governments, but given the history of rightist governments, sensible people should have stopped believing that long ago.
"Sensible people", Ti-Guy?
Are there any? I don't know anymore.
At any rate this collapse of the US won't be abating any time soon.
As long as the people who created the messes are the only ones in charge of resolving them they're all only going to deepen. And I don't mean only the Bushies or the new-cons or the republicans. Every single public institution in the US is responsible to greater and lesser degrees.
The American people are so enamoured of their sacred "system" that they think the "system" will fix everything.
It's the "system" that broke it and the "system" doesn't know how to fix it.
like Red Tory said, Al Gore was "too smart" to be president and he wore boring earthtone suits. thank god they didn't elect him. Think what a disaster that would have been.
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