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G.W. Bush Vetoes a Spending Bill
George W. Bush will not go down in history as one our greatest presidents. That is a fact. Sure he's pretended to be focused on the war on terror, but that alone is not going to be enough to save him a place in history. As a matter of fact it may very well land him a place amongst our very worst presidents. But in this last week, he has actually done something presidential, he vetoed a spending bill, hard to believe. For a president who waited 5 years into his tenure before his first veto, that is pretty darned amazing.
First of all, he is the biggest political pussy the world has ever known. He is so desperate to keep his war on terror going that he hasn't had the testicular fortitude to veto for the good of the American people, he's only done it 6 times as of this rant, check out the countdown of Presidential Vetoes for yourself. But, on a spending bill?!? That's friggin' amazing for a president who has single handedly increased our national debt by over $3 trillion. To keep his precious war (that he falsely believes will grant him historical immortality) he has passed nearly everything that has crossed his desk.
This will be his greatest obstacle to becoming remembered as more than the worst president in history, his absurd love of spending money he and the people do not have. There is a reason that every company that his daddy left him in charge of went out of business soon after, the man has no clue what a negative sign or red ink means on a balance sheet. On the day before he became President of the United States of America the national debt was $5,727,776,738,304.64 today (November 13, 2007) it is $9,111,730,076,511.49, that is a massive increase of $3,383,953,338,206.85. To say the least, that is impressive, he has built on to the debt owed by every man, woman, child, and illegal immigrant he allowed into the country $11,168.16. Maybe that's why he doesn't control the borders in the name of terror, so that we can all spread the debt out a bit more.
Of course, the welfare programs that are in place that do not take into account the citizenship of those partaking probably only makes the matters worse for those like me who actually hold down jobs and pay their taxes. I could be wrong, but I'm not. We are in a state of emergency right now with over $9 trillion in debt, that the government will admit to, since emergency spending on the war does not go toward the national debt, and entitlements coming due are also not considered in the debt (social security, anyone?). The US Dollar is weakening as a direct result of George W. Bush's absolutely wretched fiscal policies. The world's markets can forgive our war, even if the world's people can't, but they will not forgive this uncontrolled spending and huge debt liability.
Our position in the world has been weakened by George W. Bush, not only politically because of his rogue cowboy attitude towards any and all nations, but because of our rotten economy. Yes, I said it, our economy sucks. Just because Wall Street is up and people have jobs doesn't mean shit if a dollar can't buy toilet paper. And with oil at ~$100 a barrel we are in for a terrible time in the next few months and years, everything is going to be more expensive, and more so since a Canadian Dollar is now worth more than a greenback. But the Bushbots keep going around touting the economic numbers, everything's great in our economy! Unemployment is low! The market's up! Well, not for long, especially if Ben Bernanke keeps lowering rates on the advice of Wall Street. You absolutely cannot fight inflation with lower rates, it cannot be done, it devalues the dollar.
I don't give a shit if the markets go down. If it continues the way it has for the last 6 months, we are going to have huge unemployment numbers, huge inflation, and our idiot Congress and President will simply tack more debt onto our backs. If we go bankrupt (becoming more of a possibility every day) we may not recover, pure and simple. So in the next few months you will have to actually pay attention to what the candidates are saying, not about the war (it can be ended without the US losing [still believe it or not, it will take some damned doing but...]), or health care (ain't no way we can afford socialized medicine before we can even balance a damned budget), or even education, listen to the candidates who have real ideas to bring spending under control, like vetoing any piece of crap pet project spending bill - regardless of whether or not it provides funding to blind orphans living in crack houses. Our great nation cannot afford to add to it's debt, it has tripled in my lifetime, and with nearly $40 trillion more due to my parents generation in social security (thank you very much Franklin Roosevelt, I won't get one fluckin' cent I've paid in back), we cannot survive as a nation.
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