On Hold

I am putting these political blogs on hold.

Train Wreck

Our economy is a train wreck. George W. Bush has been the engineer. We have a gigantic national debt; an enormous budget deficit; a huge trade deficit; a sliding dollar; and we continue to spend $10 billion dollars a month in Iraq! The foreclosure crisis shows no signs of abatement. The gap between the wealthy few and the rest of us continues to grow. Gasoline prices are sky high, with no end in sight. Food prices and other consumer good prices are rocketing upward. Health care costs and drug costs keep going up, up, up. Personal debt on credit cards is at an all-time high; as are bankruptcies. Millions can't afford their car payments. The oil companies, insurance companies, and pharmaceutical companies are feeding at the trough. The rest of us are "eating cake." China, Singapore, Japan, Taiwan and Saudi Arabia own us. If they called in the debt bonds that we have sold them, we would sink like a rock. The fat cat corporations have totally ignored the fact that it is the Middle Class that runs the engine of our economy. These corporate monsters have been allowed to have offshore accounts, tax loopholes galore, and corporate welfare, plus exhorbitantly paid executives. Meanwhile, those who could buy goods and services are strapped. Jobs are being lost by the thousands. The current crop of candidates want to demonize China. But, the fact is that the majority of Americans couldnt buy diddly squat without the cheap prices that China affords us through its imports. Bush has catered to his wealthy compadres. He and his Congressional flunkies have ignored the average citizen. Lobbyists and corporate special interests run the show. Our elected "representatives" might as well set up kiosks in the halls of Congress and sell votes to the highest bidder. McCain wants to give us 4 more years of this mess. He wants to make tax cuts to the wealthy permanent. Heaven knows, they need more mansions, more yachts, more jets, more designer clothes for the Trophy Wife. 47 million Americans may not have health care; but the Fat Cats will get fatter. We cannot afford 4 more years of corrupt, avaricious, incompetence in the White House. If McCain thinks he can continue to spend $10 billion a month in Iraq for 100 years, he needs to think again. At the rate the economy is failing, he wont be able to buy a can of spam, much less keep fighting 2 wars.

Out of Sight/Out of Mind

I never cease to be amazed at the insensitivity of the Mainstream Media. On the 11PM broadcast of WTHR, the Indianapolis NBC affiliate, the bombing of the Iraqi Parliament in the Green Zone in Baghdad was reported by a female evening anchor substitute. She ended the report by saying: "No Americans were killed in the bombing." Her voice indicated her relief, as though it were okay for Iraqis to be bombed to bits, but Thank God Americans were not. I called the station to protest this kind of insensitivity that permeates the Media. Iraqis have died by the thousands, been maimed, lost their entire family, watched their children die, lost their homes and their livelihoods. The average Iraqi citizen never meant us any harm. Iraq was not connected with Al-Quaeda. Bush lied and spinned and cherry-picked the intelligence. His arrogance, greed and total incompetence led us into a war that has destroyed Iraq, and has damaged this country in ways that will take generations to repair. The Media has failed miserably to make Americans aware of the suffering imposed upon the Iraqi people. It has failed miserably to hold George W. Bush accountable for his incompetence and arrogance. The Bush Administration is the most corrupt in history, yet the Mainstream Media goes on about business as usual. Anna Nichole Smith was bigger news than the steady stream of lies told by the Bushies.
Any distraction will do for the Media. God forbid, they should champion the truth! The news from Iraq is too depressing. The reality there is too harsh. Out of sight/Out of Mind is their guiding philosophy regarding the human cost of this rogue war in Iraq. It is disgusting and it is immoral. George W. Bush opened Pandora's Box in Iraq and refuses to stop plumbing it's depths. He has given the majority of the American people the finger. There is no other way to describe his hubris. He intends for the slaughter to continue until he can run away from it, and spin his debacle onto the next administration. Charlatans like Karl Rove will aid and abet his cowardice. Condoleeza Rice will attempt to smear her false, foolish versions of history over the entire mess. Meanwhile, the Media, having fanned the flames of war, will try to cover their failure as the Fourth Estate by ignoring the truth or peddling trivia. They refuse to show the face of suffering in Iraq.