Oh, That Trillion Dollar Financial Bubble, It’s Leaking!
10 March 2008, 17:10
Allow me to repeat this line from the article above:
How many times have we heard from Reagan, and Bush, too, this dubious mantra: “Government is the problem!”
I might add that those two presidents were hypocrites as well. Look at the numbers. When Carter left office in January of 1981, total Federal Government expenditures were $590 billion a year. By the time Bush One was in office, Federal Government expenditures exceeded
$1 trillion or nearly double the Carter era’s.
I don’t know about you, but a central government that doubles its expenditures in less than 8 years isn’t growing smaller.
Now we have an army of neo-fascist goons that have tripled that amount in the last seven years of Repukeable rule (my word for Republicans. I don’t look too kindly on the Dimocrats either, since they too have sold us down the river)
According to various reports, the US Federal Government’s total budget will be over $3.1 trillion this fiscal year.
So much for the Repukeables’ ballyhooed belief in ’smaller government’.
Let this be a small lesson to us all. Both parties do not represent the will or interests of the people or the common good. the last Congressional election proves this beyond any doubt. Both parties are there to protect and aggrandize the interests of only our wealthiest class, to which most of them belong to any way, most especially the financiers of Wall Street, the giant oil and pharmaceutical industries and last but certainly not least the gargantuan military industrial complex. Both parties pay only lip-service to the rest of us.
In the past five decades the rural American constantly casted his vote for the GOP, thinking that the representatives of this party would look after their interests.
Yet the only thing the GOP looked after were the interests of agribusiness, and the end result was the very predictable demise of the American family farm.
Ditto the American factory worker, who constantly voted for the Dimocrats, who supposedly looked after their interests.
Yet all they got in return for their votes were stagnant wages & very weak unions.
Conclusion: Both ’parties’ are actually separate wings of the same corrupt power structure, otherwise they would not agree so much on so many issues, otherwise they wouldn’t spend so much time and effort in covering each others’ asses.
Allow me to repeat this line from the article above:
How many times have we heard from Reagan, and Bush, too, this dubious mantra: “Government is the problem!”
I might add that those two presidents were hypocrites as well. Look at the numbers. When Carter left office in January of 1981, total Federal Government expenditures were $590 billion a year. By the time Bush One was in office, Federal Government expenditures exceeded
$1 trillion or nearly double the Carter era’s.
I don’t know about you, but a central government that doubles its expenditures in less than 8 years isn’t growing smaller.
Now we have an army of neo-fascist goons that have tripled that amount in the last seven years of Repukeable rule (my word for Republicans. I don’t look too kindly on the Dimocrats either, since they too have sold us down the river)
According to various reports, the US Federal Government’s total budget will be over $3.1 trillion this fiscal year.
So much for the Repukeables’ ballyhooed belief in ’smaller government’.
Let this be a small lesson to us all. Both parties do not represent the will or interests of the people or the common good. the last Congressional election proves this beyond any doubt. Both parties are there to protect and aggrandize the interests of only our wealthiest class, to which most of them belong to any way, most especially the financiers of Wall Street, the giant oil and pharmaceutical industries and last but certainly not least the gargantuan military industrial complex. Both parties pay only lip-service to the rest of us.
In the past five decades the rural American constantly casted his vote for the GOP, thinking that the representatives of this party would look after their interests.
Yet the only thing the GOP looked after were the interests of agribusiness, and the end result was the very predictable demise of the American family farm.
Ditto the American factory worker, who constantly voted for the Dimocrats, who supposedly looked after their interests.
Yet all they got in return for their votes were stagnant wages & very weak unions.
Conclusion: Both ’parties’ are actually separate wings of the same corrupt power structure, otherwise they would not agree so much on so many issues, otherwise they wouldn’t spend so much time and effort in covering each others’ asses.