The Bee

Bush the Younger wants to infuse these crumbling, private financial institutions with unprecedented amounts of public money so that they can continue lending. He said this. He really said this. George W. Bush wants to dump $700 billion dollars that we don’t have into revitalizing usurious lending companies to continue handing out money that they don’t have. I mean, after all, this is why we’re giving them this money, right—because they don’t have it. If you don’t see where this going, you possibly killed too many brain cells in high school huffing paint thinner. Bush the Younger then turns around and tries to explain the history of this economic crisis like it dates back to the Romans. According to him, all that’s happening is we’re just now seeing the horrible effects of an economically geriatric downward spiral. In truth, this has been happening because, over the past few years, financial institutions have been shoveling out money to financially incompetent borrowers. When you give money—money that you don’t have—to people who don’t have the means to pay you back, then you’re going to run out of money and go bankrupt. It is pure lunacy to turn around keep on doing this. What we should really do is let these companies fall flat on their faces and take the whole lot of us with them. We deserve it. We’ve regressed into a plastic economy. I hope that China and India learn from our lesson when they’re the world’s next superpowers and the American middleclass is standing in bread lines. They would be stupid not to learn from such blatant idiocy. We were preaching the gospel of free-market economy when the criminals at the top were just nationalizing every aspect of this country and selling it all off to foreign buyers. The people on the hill have derailed us with their own greed. When the United States is reduced to a sea of crumbling infrastructure almost as vast as its unemployment, those in the aristocracy will feel only a pinch. Worse case scenario: one or two them might have to sell off a yacht to an Arab prince. On the other hand, we wouldn’t be real capitalists if we didn’t experience a baptism by fire every few generations.

One-Party System

My biggest grievance with either political party to date is that they both desire the same ends while employing different means. Both the Democrats and the Republicans are parasites of the special interest groups and only live to serve them. Time and time again our government has been bought and sold and the middleclass has been nothing more than pawns on a chessboard. Issues such as race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, nationality and socio-economics are nothing more than smoke and mirrors employed by these politicians to gain entry into office. In reality, the office goes to the highest bidder, the one backed by the wealthiest lobbyists who can pay for the most elaborate campaign. The best interests of this country mean nothing once these individuals are elected. The fact that the American people are too stupid to realize this only exacerbates things. We’ve heard an earful from each and everyone of these carpetbagger politicians about education, welfare reform, taxes, civil rights and national security during election season and have not once ever seen any result. The fact of the matter is that American children are the stupidest in the world, there is no welfare-net to protect American laborers as their jobs are shipped overseas, the middleclass bears the burden of financing this nation, minorities are increasingly disenfranchised and divested from our society even though they are slowly becoming the majority, and there is nothing to speak of to keep the next terrorist splinter cell from crossing the United States’ southern boarder and attacking the citizenry again. The evidence is clear that at every election the ballot is cast in favor of the lesser of two evils. We’re only fooling ourselves when we say that we have a two-party system. Each election and each term the only thing that these politicians learn is not how to better serve the polity they were elected to represent but how to make their propaganda more effective. If you ever even so much as mention the idea that this country is run according to the whims and fancies of its minute aristocracy, you’re labeled a socialist. If you advocate the dismantling of the corporate hegemonies and monopolies, you’re anti-capitalist. If you favor broad social and cultural reform, you’re a Godless heathen. In short, if you support anything that would make this country a better place to live, you’re unpatriotic.

The electorate in this country subscribes to political dogma in an unprecedented way and supports political candidates as if they were their favorite baseball team. The fact that our political “debates” are little more than beauty pageants evidences that we love talking heads more than we care about actual leaders. The truth of the matter is that no matter whom you vote for, it’s not going to change anything. Not one thing. The special interest groups will continue to steal money from the middleclass hand-over-fist and our elected officials will be the conduits by which they will do so. Vice president Dick Cheney is making more money than God through his unethical alliance with Halliburton while the rest of U.S. is living one paycheck to the next in order to bankroll this disaster of a war in Iraq. Houses are being foreclosed on at an alarming rate and jobs are leaving this country like a bad date skipping out on the check yet Bush the Younger wants to dump several hundred billion dollars into bailing out the corporations that are partly responsible for the economic holocaust that this country is experiencing. European countries are intent on ending their dependence on foreign oil and our politically flaccid Congress is eyeing Alaska like a rufied prom date. And God help you if you’re on the wrong side of the one-in-three odds of having cancer in your lifetime because you’re just another statistic in the eyes of our “competitive” health care industry. So, which presidential candidate is going to change any of this? The answer is that neither one will. I’ve lived through enough elections to understand that no matter what the campaign slogan says, it really means “Thanks for your support; go fuck yourself.”