I have sometimes wondered why we haven’t been attacked by al Qaeda since 9-11. Perhaps it is because our guardians have always found out their nefarious plots. Perhaps this is proof that God is on “our” side rather than theirs. Or perhaps they have no need to do so.
I sometimes wonder why they don’t try to assassinate one of the Presidential candidates. But if they believe that a Republican President would be worse for their cause than a Democratic President then they would not wish to do this (since my knee-jerk reaction along with that of millions of other Americans would be to vote a President in who would kill them until there was none left to kill).
It might be in their interest to allow a Democratic President to occupy the Oval Office. I am by nature an admirer of the Democratic Party (for my economic interests), but I would be the first to admit that I would not trust any of those who now aspire to lead this country from that party to lead it in time for war. I haven’t trusted a Democratic President to lead us in time of war since Lyndon Johnson. I guess this is one of the reasons I have been torn in my support of this party. I love their economic outlook, but distrust their ability to lead this country in time of war.
But the Republican Party has tried to give us both “guns and butter”. They are admired by those who have to run their businesses in this time. They have borrowed against a future “time of plenty” when we will have won “The War on Terror” (in 10 or 20 or 30 years), and until then all we have to do is “sit tight”, and keep the economy going.
I heard one fellow talking tonight about how “recessions” used to be part of the cycle of business. You got your job, worked until a recession came, perhaps lost your job, and got another during the next business cycle. But how did you live when you lost your job? If you were “smart” (or lucky), you had saved money to make it through to the next cycle. So you should have enough money saved up to last you for three months. Well, I don’t. I don’t know anybody who does. Or maybe you have. But you (fool that you are) put it into the stock market, and now you have only a portion of what you “saved”. Somebody made money, but not you, fool that you are.
So maybe al Qaeda doesn’t need to attack us. All they have to do is wait and watch while we spend our national wealth into bankruptcy. While Communist China takes on more of the physical production of the wealth of the world (the TVs, the toasters, and even the cars) some of us will produce the software that makes it run more efficiently. But what will the rest of us do? Are we even needed except as “consumers”?
Interesting.
The companies now , have no loyalty to this country, only contempt for its people. Ford just announced buyouts of all their hourly workers, so they can hire cheaper ones. The new cars , hydrogen and electric ones, will be made overseas and in Mexico.
But dear god man the republicans are no better at making war. In fact this bunch lied their asses off to go to war to secure oil contracts for the multinational oil companies, and Hunt Oil, and Exxon, and BP.
This "cycle" of work and recession will be magnified by about 9 trillion dollars in debt. And those little checks that the govt is sending out are nothing more than a burden on our childrens backs. The republicans have arguably commited treason by LYING to the nation to take our troops into war in Iraq. Why? Because they are oil men, even condi is an oil exec. They wanted those oil contracts. So they made the country's National Energy Policy, a state secret. The secret is/was that they would invade Iraq in order to secure this country's future is full of their oil, instead of hydrogen cars, or electric cars. And they made sure that they and their pals would be the ones that get rich on it. I think they even threw in a little religion, you gotta have that for a good war. Lots of flag waving too.
The firemen on 911 were heroes too, till they got sick,, then they were fakers. Too bad the USEPA lied to them about what they were breathing.
There's never been a more blatantly pre-emptive war by the U.S., the rest aren't even close. Gulf of Tonkin was a lie, but nothing beats this one. More lies were told to go to war, more intel ignored, than is believable. Trust a republican to go to war???
Oh, and those smart bombs that are saving our soldiers lives, the programs that made them happen were pushed through by Jimmy Carter, against many republican voices in congress.
Maybe we should be looking for a party that considers the peoples welfare above the corporations greed. John Edwards might be a good start. But heck, people would rather watch NASCAR and football.
This war was planned in the late 1990's by people who came to be on bush's cabinet. Search on PNAC report on google.
If we had continued Jimmy Carters plan to reduce oil consumption by making cars that ran on alternative fuels, and they did make some, we wouldn't be in Iraq right now, and 911 might not have happened,, in fact it probably would not have happened.
Reagan stopped funding the projects when he took office. NASA Glenn has a pickup truck in their parking lot, it runs on a "stirling engine". It crossed the country and got 35 mpg, and their car got 40. The pickup and the car are there today rusting in the parking lot. Ford made a stirling engine too, stopped work on it when reagan took over.
What will we fight wars over next? We've had spice wars, will we have a war for lima beans next? For water? For turnips. Hell, if the turnip company donates enough money, I guess we will have a war for turnips.
posted by prime3end on Jan 26, 2008 at 12:06:32 am #