(10/20/2005) According to the U.S. Treasury website the total federal debt topped the $8 trillion dollar mark today. That's quite an accomplishment for Bush and his Republicans co-conspirators in Congress. They call themselves fiscal conservatives and yet they consistently produce catastrophically bad fiscal results for our government, and then try to pass the blame for the results of their own corrupt fiscal policies.

This extreme and deliberate fiscal mismanagement is especially obvious when you look at where they started from and how short a period of time it took them to reach this point. I don't understand why more Americans cannot see this fraud, and recognize the fact that they are being lied to and ripped-off. And although Bush's poll numbers are dropping fast there are still over 100 million Americans who support him despite the fact he is working against their interest. What is wrong with these people? How can we help them see the truth? 

In 2000, just 5 years ago, we had a $236 billion dollar surplus and a total federal debt of $5.6 trillion. Today we have a $350 billion dollar deficit and a total debt of $8 trillion. This year alone the Bush administration and the Republicans in Congress will add $2,000 to the debt owed by every man, woman, and child in America, plus interest cost.

The deficits during the past 3 years have been the three highest deficits ever, thanks to a continuing GOP policy of massive tax cuts for the extremely wealthy and huge defense spending increases. In 5 years the Republicans have spent every penny of the Social Security surplus, and added over $2.4 trillion dollars to the total federal debt. Some day the people who lent us all that money are going to want it back, and until then we all must pay interest on all this Republican created debt.

So how have these elected Republicans addressed this growing fiscal catastrophe? They want to pass more tax cuts for the very wealthy, people who make over $1 million dollars per year, and they want to start cutting non-defense discretionary spending. Which means cuts in education, health care, roads and highways, police, fireman, homeland security, federal regulators, welfare, child care, environmental protections, Social Security, Medicare, etc.

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Don't you find it amazing that these Republicans want to spend limitless amounts of money in Iraq, over $300 billion so far, and yet when it comes to spending a few billion on programs that benefit the American people they won't even consider it, or they consider it unnecessary, waste, fraud, and abuse?

In my opinion the real unnecessary, waste, fraud, and abuse are the members of the GOP currently serving in our federal government. They are pissing on our shoes while telling us it's raining.   

I find it more than a bit ironic that the federal debt goes over the $8 trillion dollar mark within the same 24 hour period that the Senate Republicans turn down an amendment from the Democrats to increase the minimum wage by $1.10 per hour over a two year period. The same day that Bush's "bi-partisan" Tax Reform Commission recommends big tax breaks for the very wealth and a further shifting of the federal tax burden onto the backs of the middle class. The same day that another one of our soldiers is killed in Iraq. The same day that the disgusting liar Condi Rice tells Senators that we may need to be Iraq for 10 more years at a cost of several hundred billion more dollars and thousands of more U.S. soldiers lives. The same day that the stock market swings radically way down and then way up, and now way down. The same day that the Dallas Morning News reports that Dallas billionaire, Ray Hunt, wants, and will get, the Dallas City Council to give him millions in tax abatements and a land swap deal that is an insult to every other taxpayer in Dallas. The same day that Rumsfeld warns China against further military build-up, which ironically is being financing with our $450+ annual trade deficit with China. The same day that hurricane Wilma is recorded as the strongest hurricane ever in the Atlantic, and is headed our way. The same day that Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff testifies about the need for more money and resources to restructure a unprepared and slow to respond agency. The same day Saddam Hussein and his pals are on trial in a kangaroo court in Baghdad for their "crimes", when the truth is the Reagan-Bush administration enabled, armed, financed, and encouraged Saddam. The same day that the grossly unqualified Supreme Court nominee, Harriet Miers, makes her extreme anti-abortion stance clear through a questionnaire she filled out when applying for the Dallas City Council. The same day that CIA Director, Porter Goss, is in the hot seat for an agency in disarray. And the list could go on and on.

This one 24 hour period feels like a train wreck into a black hole. It appears that our government has gone completely haywire and is spinning out of control. The Republicans have created a figurative fiscal hurricane that is wrecking havoc on our democracy and our government's fiscal health.

Why are our politicians undermining our democracy, robbing our government, harming and killing innocent people in Iraq, and treating the American people like we are all just a bunch of ignorant fools? What additional ugliness and treachery do they have in store for us next?

Our Republican politicians are lying to us everyday. They are killing innocent men, women, and children in Iraq who are fighting for their lives, and then they have the gall to call them "insurgents" when they should be called "freedom fighters". They use God's name like it is some term that can be tossed about at will in order to score some political points. They glutton themselves at the taxpayers expense while claiming they are representing our interest. They cry about injustice in the tax code so that they can gain support for further shifting the tax burden onto the backs of hardworking middle class families. They are taking away our rights and freedoms in the name of fighting terrorist. They are rolling back decades of environmental protections in the name of economic progress. They constantly complain about rising health care cost and yet that is the first thing they want to cut to reduce the federal deficit. They have rolled back anti-cronyism rules and have hired people who are grossly unqualified, and who often have a history of opposing the agencies they are hired to run. And the list could go on and on.

The Republicans in Congress are laughing at us behind our backs. They think we are all just a bunch of stupid naive spineless cowards. They claim compassion while at the same time they plunge their daggers deeper into the heart of Uncle Sam.

The GOP's absolute power has corrupted them absolutely. And the Democrats look like a bunch of impotent outraged puppets dangling from the strings of their wealthy supporters. And as the GOP's rampant ruthless criminality slowly percolates up into the public view the public's life boat is slowly sinking down into the depths of a muted state of misery, despair, and hopelessness. It's like a cruel Greek tragedy, but it's real and the middle class is the tragic victim and our GOP elected officials are the cut throat back-stabbing perpetrators.

The GOP says, figurative, "Kill the estate tax, kill the insurgents, kill the sick birds, kill the middle class, kill our soldiers, kill the Palestinians, kill Iran, kill Syria, kill North Korea, kill our democracy, kill the poor, kill the killers, kill the sick, kill the truth, kill the past, kill it all." It appears that a bunch of killer, eugenics, fascist have taken over our government and are trying to kill it.

The GOP has replaced honor, respect, integrity, Christian values, and human values with murder, lies, stealing, cheating, manipulation, graft, corruption, deception, back-stabbing, hate, blame, and ugliness. The proof of this lack of a moral compass is in the $8 trillion dollar debt, how it got there, and their solution to stopping it. They are planning on continuing their effort to help the people who don't need the help, the very rich, and taking from those who could use some help, everyone else.

The GOP's efforts to concentrate wealth into the hands of a few is a danger President Lincoln warned us would destroy our republic.

The GOP takes from the middle class and gives it to the very rich, while claiming they are doing the opposite.

This type of economic injustice is just the continuation of the GOP's policies from the Nixon, Reagan, and Bush (I) administrations. They have been conning us, the American people, while they are robbing our government and undermining our democracy. But the truth is they don't really have to con us any more because they have rigged our elections systems with bogus paperless voting computers built by companies like Diebold, and they have stacked the Supreme Court with activist partisan justices, five of who put Bush into the White House.

This rapidly growing $8 trillion dollar federal debt is just the tip of the bloody treasonous iceberg of death and despair the GOP has planned for us. We cannot allow any more of their plans to succeed, and we must elect new politicians who will work to reverse everything the GOP has already done.

Prepare yourselves for an all out fight, or teach your children how to live on their knees inside a cardboard box.