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> Pants on Fire: the Liars of the Bush Administration will take the world down in flames if we let them

26 January 2006, 08:32

Kurt Vonnegut was right about the Euphio Machine. He may have imagined only TV or possibly computers, could do this to our society. It took that and video games, MP3’s, movie theaters, DVD’s, cell phones, drugs, instant messaging, text messaging, computer internet, TV programming, cable, satelite, driving around in cars and recreation shopping to suck all thought from our brain while holding us hostage to their hypnotic influence.
I guess it helps us to quit focusing on outsourced farming, fast food caused obesity, paying for two wars at one time, oil price inflation, poor health, loss of jobs and medical coverage, our lost hope, huge debts and realization that on a daily basis we lose our freedoms, potentials, and the American Dream.
Then if that weren’t enough; our "Uniter" President and his cronies have pitted groups of people against one another, creating class wars based on religion, race, gender and age, using campaign issues: Medicare Prescription programs, Social Security Revisions, making Haves into Have Mores, debating Same Sex marriage, targeting a womans right to choose, party politics, NeoCon policies, supreme court justice nominations, unfunded No Child Left Behind, corporate welfare, inflation, illegal aliens, broken borders, mandates requiring national ID or passports. Adding to the confusion in our minds, our local governments have decided to tax us for sports stadiums, mass transit debacles, while we slug it out job hunting, lose job perks and benefits, live with forced overtime, and watch our leaders receive government entitlements for squandering taxpayer money.
When I talk to my friends and coworkers about these governmental issues, offering that all of us should be writing letters to our representatives begging them to do all in their power to stop the insanity; people agree, then politely change the subject.
Help!!! How do we get redemption from that smirking face with the wiseacre remarks and soundbites and the hand picked audiance sitting behind him during his speeches. That curling sarcastic mouth, pointy nose and widows peaks that are starting to look like budding horns. Is he a devil, is he an idiot, is he an underrated sociopath?
What should we do? Who will stop this mess? We don’t hear advice from radio voices or the talking heads, because they know that ratings are not boosted by saying "have a nice day" and then not offer a solution that fits the problems.
I don’t have ability to enforce a solution. Where are the watchdogs, the Kenneth Starrs, bared teeth, tort law, and knuckles to stop the abuses? Isn’t it obvious to our "elected officials" that they are supposed to take action and stop the violations?
Could all Americans not think about our US citizens being sent to Iraq, Kuwait, Afganistan, the back door draft, or millions of children that haven’t had a military parent at home for over a year. Are we in denial when we hear of injured soldiers and their coping families while the VA closes down hospitals and denies them treatments? Not in America; surely we must be talking about some country that doesn’t have paved roads?
Are we in denial about what we see happening in Iraq; barricaded roads, manned by foriegn police and military demanding ID, having their doors kicked down and their families living without safety and stability in their own country.
How easily we all have forgotten that lengthy government shut-down on Clinton’s watch, good thing we had a robust economy or things would have been real, real bad.
I remember Bush didn’t raise a hand in 2000 when Enron deliberately manipulated energy shortages and did price gauging, followed by the stock market scandal. 9-11 gave us a bombed out stock market and shut down air travel and stopped us from going to our deposit boxes, savings and stocks when the banks were closed. Our comfort zone was shaken.
We have a constitution and rights that should not be suspended or altered for one set of circumstances or a "Patriot Act", "Homeland Security" or any cozy euphanism that is applied to help sell us on loss of personal freedoms. We don’t need or want criminals committing lawlessness, looting and assaults or to be abandoned by our police and military. A lot of us own guns and have bullets; we should be able to protect ourselves. Will the day come when we cannot?
That’s why we have laws and put emergency planning within control of our government. Katrina people began to protest after becoming certain that help would not come. The Rodney King trial and Los Angeles rioting was caused because our society had eliminated a group of people from fair justice; including prosecuting abuse from police. WTO assaults on peaceful protestors took place because police were told to act against everyone instead of going after the extremist that began vandalizing business windows. Poor training or was it an anger management issue?
Those events will be remembered as minor compared to living with devaulation of our money, loss of home equity and the loss of value of our savings and investments, while we suffer from shortages, inflation, high interest rates, economic depression, huge debts and become controlled by a foreign power.
I can only believe that we care in a daytime Christian manner, you know: hugs, "love ya man", "see you tomorrow", out of the mind five minutes later type of behavior. We lose awareness that local TV news isn’t news as much as it is commercials, then tells us "for the rest of the story look at our website"? The newspapers are filled with sports, weather, fluff, inaccurate news headings that create more confusion added to biased information.
We have silently allowed corporations and government to give away our industry, manufacturing and farming, eliminate costomer service and eliminate the quality and our say about our food chain. Next we will lose control over local water, air, electricity and gas supplies. I agree that nobody wants daily doses of that stuff.
As long as some corporation is able to make a billion dollars on the backs of those who helped grow their business, who cares what they do? Shareholders will rejoice, the poor will pay.
Rules, who needs rules, this is the the lack of ethics, big theft, car jacking, road raging, and hit and run 2000’s.
We were outraged by Katrina and lack of FEMA responce, visualizing it happening to ourselves and how we would react if our community were being treated like a third world country. How quickly we believe the government lies that lead us to perceive that the money and help has fixed all of the pain. Look around, listen and you will find out that those things haven’t happened in the manner that we were told.
Think about it, we don’t need NASA and Mars study, we need quality water, air, food, stability, education, cooperation and oportunity to take care of all people and the world we have already been blessed with.
I miss Bill Clinton, at least I only had to explain to my grade school aged child why he was in trouble (Monica and Bill were caught smoking and they lied about it) and that our personal world and life was safe.
Don’t sit around and take it for granted, thinking somebody is managing things on your behalf. I am beginning to understand how dictatorships work. Get mad, don’t let the selling of America happen.