Chapter 1

If The Politicians In The Bush Administration Had To Tell The Truth About Themselves, Here Is What They Might Say

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Hi, I'm George W. Bush your "appointed" President and I disapprove of this message. Some people think I'm just a political puppet because I'm only concerned about the interest of the extremely wealthy, and their right, but my boss told me to tell you "I'm not a puppet", and some other stuff that I forgot. That Rove guy can be a real jerk sometimes. Anyway, yes it's true I lost the popular vote by around 500,000 votes, and Gore should be your President, but because I have powerful friends in high places, including 5 members of the Supreme Court, and my brother Jeb in Florida, we were able to fix the election. Most people have already forgotten about the roadblock car check points in Florida, the two million votes that did not get counted, equipment problems in Democratic districts, the exit polling contradictions, the population migrations into Arkansas and Tennessee, and the scare tactics used to stop the vote recount efforts in Florida. The truth is the Bush family, and our financial backers, count on the public's short attention spans and forgetfulness to help us win public office. We know people, it's the people who don't know us. My boss, Karl Rove, has successfully portrayed me as an Washington outsider, but that is not the reality. I'm not new to politics by a long shot and my life long political activities prove that I am really a professional politician. I began learning about political campaigns and right-wing politics as a teenager when I helped my father and several of his friends run for public office. Then, after I graduated from college I ran for the U.S. Congress and I continued helping my father and his friends run for public office. After my father lost his re-election campaign in 1992, because of that little nazi Perot, the decision was made to make me the next President after Clinton, so the Texas based right-wing political machine made me Governor of Texas so the America people would think that I was qualified to be President. They also began relocating thousands of our religious right puppet manipulators into Tennessee and Arkansas for the big vote scam in November of 2000. The American people are so naive, and the right-wing machine is so powerful and determined, it's like taking candy from a baby. Most of the American people are fooled into believing that I'm a compassionate conservative, and a level headed decision maker, but that is also not true. I'm just a political puppet for a few families worth hundreds of billions of dollars, and I'm playing my part in a "con" job that is going to rob the American people of their government's assets and legal protections. My current assignment is to bankrupt the federal government with huge budget deficits. I'm going to do this by passing new spending initiatives that will send total federal spending way up, and by passing huge tax giveaways to the very rich that will send federal revenues way down. And while I'm bankrupting the federal government I will spin the facts and make the American people think that I'm fighting terrorism and moving the U.S. economy in the right direction. Once the federal government is bankrupt a handful of super wealthy families, my friends and financial supporters, will step in and buy up all the government's assets and national treasures for pennies on the dollar. Then I will collect my slice of the pie and become a honored hero among the wealthy right-wing neo-con insiders. After all the government's assets have been transferred from the American people to my rich friends American's experiment with democracy will be over and the fascist right-wing money machine will have complete control over America, HAHA HEHE HAHE (sick laugh). The American people are basically lazy, stupid, and complacent. Most of them don't know the real value of the federal government's assets, they don't appear to understand that these government assets really belong to them, and they don't seem to care that these assets are being looted by a handful of greedy capitalist and their political puppets in the Republican Party; so it serves them right to lose what they fail to understand and protect. How does that saying go? "A fool and their money are soon parted", or something like that. Anyway, when we get done with the federal government 90% of the American people won't have two pennies to rub together and we will run them out of here just like our forefathers did to the Indians, and exactly like the Jews in Israel are currently doing to the Palestinians. Welcome to the "New World Order" you stupid American fools. Also, with all the new smart robots being developed in Japan there won't be any need for all these stupid people around here anyway. They would just trash and stink up the place, so forget them. I wanted to start killing them all now, but Daddy says to wait a little while longer. Cheney, he is my Vice President, is always saying, "Fire up the ovens, the fascist are back in power, and the "New World Order" has no use for your sorry a&%", and then he looks at me with this strange grin on his face. I hope he's not talking about my sorry a&%.

Hi, I'm Vice President Dick Cheney and I'm also a life long professional politician puppet and extreme right-wing neo-con chickenhawk, just like Bush, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, and Pearl. I did take a short break from my political activities, during the Clinton administration, to go through the "revolving door" to private industry where I received a huge pay-off for my fascist political work during the Nixon, Ford, Reagan and Bush Sr. administrations. Yep, I go over $40 million dollars in five years and I hardly had to lift a finger. In fact, my former employer, Halliburton, is still paying me a million dollars each year, we just call it deferred compensation (*wink*). But that money has nothing to do with the non-bid contract Halliburton was given to help re-build Iraq, or the giant retroactive corporate tax cut we tried to pass, or the secret meetings with energy company executives, or the accounting gimmicks Halliburton used to inflate their earnings and trick investors, honest. Yes, it is true that I had a bad heart, and not just figuratively, but we harvested a new heart from one of my clones that we raise on a small town down in Mexico, now I'm good as new. My soul is probably going to hell, but not until I run out of clones to harvest new organs from. I just love whoring for the rich right-wing fascist, since now I am one.

Hi, I'm Bush's National Insecurity Advisor, Condoleezza Rice, and I can lies just as good as Bush, Cheney, Hughes, and the others, but just not under oath. But don't you worry none, I have memorized a long list of excuses for every conceivable situation, except not under oath. Never ask me any question under oath. I not under oath right now, am I? D&%#@ you! Die you blood sucking pigs in the liberal media! It is true that I have been a key part of the worst administration in the history of this country, including the major mismanagement of security and intelligence issues, but don't be fooled, our plans are right on schedule and moving ahead at full speed. It is the American people who are the incompetent fools that have been failing to do their jobs as self-governors, not me, I'm doing exactly what I have been told to do and I got my payoff money guaranteed. Of course we knew in advance what was going to happen on 9/11, in fact our friends in Saudi Arabia helped us plan the whole thing. Thanks to 9/11 we've had the full support of Congress in starting wars in the Middle East, and passing the extreme increases in military spending we wanted. Now that we've set the wheels in motion it's just a matter of time before we gain complete control over American, and soon the world, HAHA HEHE HAHE (sick laugh).

Hi, I'm Don Rumsfeld, one of Bush's key extremist neo-cons focused on globalization and the "New World Order". I love torturing and killing people in far way exotic places like Iraq, North Korea, Vietnam, Central America, etc, etc, etc. I set the killing apparatus in motion and then I help spread fear and propaganda. l just love my job. I have been accused of not planning an exit strategy in Iraq, but hell, I never planned on exiting. Those ignorant sandniggers have a lot of valuable oil and real estate that we can exploit for big bucks for a long time. And this war is going to cost hundreds of billions of dollars and force big cuts in social programs back home, which is exactly what we want to happen. Also, all those dead American boys are mostly just nobodies from families with no money and no power, we have no worries from them. My faulty memory and convoluted rhetoric make it impossible for Congress to oversee what I'm really doing (smile, *wink*), but it's a classic bait and switch con job plain and simple. I did the same type of thing for Nixon, Ford, Reagan, Bush Senior, and now I'm doing it for this ignorant political puppet Bush and Israel; I love it.

Hi, I'm Colin Powell the Secretary of Defense. I was once considered a good choice to become the first black U.S. President, but Bush's major screw ups with the economy, Iraq, trade, our allies, and constant lies have shot down my higher political ambitions, now I just hoping to get a big payoff when I go through the revolving door to private industry, just like Cheney did. "# I going to be a multi-millionaire soon, # I going to be a multi-millionaire soon, # yepeee!". My son, Michael Powell is Chairman of the FCC, and he is helping us turn American into a one media conglomerate fascist state. Soon you will only know what we tell you, and we expect you to accept it and keep your f&%#@&# mouths shut. My wife thinks that my son and I are both crazy, but we are really just evil, greedy, and selfish. Don't you dare tell her that I said that or I'll have you killed you whiney liberal dog.

Hi, I'm George Tenet director of the CIA (Cocaine Import Association). I was appointed to head the CIA during the Clinton administration, but I was not Clinton's first choice by a long shot. Clinton wanted Anthony Lake, an honest free thinker who was going to reform the U.S. intelligence apparatus, but the right-wing fascist in Congress intimidate Lake to the point he dropped out saying "Washington has gone haywire", what a f&%#@&# p@#%&. After that p@#%& Lake wimped out the Republicans in Congress forced me down Clinton's throat, and now I serve the real fascist in the Bush administration, who's a&%#@ I really love to kiss, I feel right at home with these bunch of subversive political puppets. You might think I'm the ugliest person working in this administration, but just wait tell you find out what I been doing, then you will know for sure that everything about me is ugly, and not just my ugly face and my arrogant "eat-s&%#-and-go-to-hell" attitude. "I lie, then people die. I cover up crime so that Bush's supporters will never do any time. I steal so that the anti-Jew forces will starve and wail. If you say Iraq is good I will send you straight to jail."

Hi, I'm Paul Wolfowitz Deputy Secretary of Defense and I'm also an extremist neo-con globalist whoring for the right-wing military industrial complex. I'm the primary reason America went to war with Iraq instead of pursuing the real terrorist. We had to start a war in Iraq so that Israel could continue stealing land from the Palestinians and the American people would think that Bush was doing something about terrorism and not just running up huge budget deficits for nothing. Killing Arabs by proxy for the fascist in Israel using American boys as targets is my favorite past time, and I get paid for it. Now the Republican Party will get all the Jewish votes in America and I will be a hero. I know that God is no more real than the Easter Bunny, and that my fellow Jewish brothers will inherit the earth, and I am using my position to further our goals of complete power and control. I never say it, but I'm always thinking of saying it, "Death to all the Arab Gentile scum". That's like my private little slogan that keeps going through my head over and over and over again, and again, and again; it helps to keep me focused.

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Hi, I'm Alan Greenspan, Chairman of the Federal Reserve, and I'm also a right-wing puppet for a few family with zillions of dollars. It is true that I have duel loyalties to the America and Israel, but being a Zionist and a right-wing puppet American has it's advantages, like money, power, and world domination. It is true that I'm a two faced economist that can turn any debate into a non-sensible charade. So don't ask me a question unless you want a long winded answer that will leave you more confused and clueless then when you started. I served the Clinton administration, where I helped hold down positive economic results, and now I'm serving the evil fascist and their ignorant puppet, George W. Bush, where I have been helping them bankrupt this wealthy country and destroy it's domestic manufacturing infrastructure. After we're done a handful of super wealthy families will buy up every inch of America for fractions of a penny on the dollar, and they will replace America's democracy with a ruthless aristocracy. I wish I could tell the America people about this scam, but most of them would probably not believe me, and the right-wing machine would probably crush me, literally.

Hi, I'm John Ashcroft, I lost my seat in the Senate to a dead man, Senator Caranahan, who died in a mysterious plane crash (*wink*), so Bush made me his Attorney General. Now my job is to protect the corrupt members of the Republican Party, and their supporters, from criminal investigations, and criminal prosecutions. There are hardly enough hours in a day to keep up with all these guys criminal activities. I have also been given the responsibility of trying to figure out creative new ways to take away the American people's civil liberties and legal rights using terrorism as an excuse. I have been doing such a good job undermining the U.S. Constitution and subverting U.S. laws that the Democrats in Congress are incensed by my success and they use me as their media whipping boy at every opportunity. I just love whippings, both giving and taking.

Hi, I'm Tom "The Hammer" Delay, and I'm the House Majority Whip out of Texas. My job is to make sure all the extreme right-wing fascist legislation, created by me and my friends on the Republican side of the aisle, slides right through the House of Representatives like a greased pig, and that all the Democrat's legislation never sees the light of day. If any of the Republicans refuse to go along with what I say I threaten them with a fascist bug spray my extermination company developed to deal with the homeless problem down in Texas. If they still refuse I start with their family pets and then work my way up the family tree until they relent. I pushed through new voting district legislation for Texas and now the Republican Party has a strangle hold over the "Lone Star" state. I absolutely have no problem lying for, and whoring for, the right-wing Texas fascist who's coattails I'm riding on. When we get done with America I'll be filthy rich and go back to Texas and live like a king, and the rest of you can go to hell in a handbasket for all I care.

Hi, I'm John Snow the new "snowjob" Treasury Secretary. My predecessor, Paul O'Neal resigned and wrote a book "The Price Of Loyalty" where he told about how my boss, George W. Bush, is a liar and a treasonous thief. But Bush has nothing to worry about from me, I've already been through the revolving door and collect by tens of millions from Alcoa and now I just want to help Bush reduce my personal tax liabilities to zero. So far so good. The Democrats in Congress keep trying to get me to admit that were taking this country in the wrong direction with bad economic policies, but I'm a good liar and I'm getting better at lying with each question, so I just spin the s&%@ out of the facts until the time runs out. Those Democrats know that I'm a huge liar and a puppet for the right-wing machine, but their votes are not the ones keeping us in power.

Hi, I'm Karl Rove, George Bush's long time family friend and political advisor. People accuse me of using dirty political tricks, but I tell them those were just youthful pranks and that's all behind me now. The Democrats accuse me of running the executive branch, but the truth is I really run all three branches of government. The media thinks all this administrations decisions are based on carefully weighed political considerations, hell yes they are!, leave the rational thinking to the Democrats, and the liberal fools in the media, we're only interested in keeping power over this country, at least until the rip-off is complete, and then no one will dare question our power.

Hi, I'm Milton Friedman, an extreme right-wing economist, and just like my friend Greenspan, I can't wait to turn America into a fascist state that will become Israel's puppet. I don't belong in this group of administration officials but the author wanted me to say a word or two since my greed based ideas and extreme right-wing ideology are the blueprints that this administration is blindly following. I believe in limited government, by that I mean a government that only serves the interest of the very very wealthy. I believe in free markets, by that I mean markets where average people have no say, no power, and no influence, but markets that are free for the super rich to exploit. I believe in free trade, by that I mean trade that only benefits the largest and most exploitive corporations at the expense of all American based small business, workers, and the environment. I have been whoring for the right-wing forces for so long I think I starting to believe my own lies. I'm getting very old now and I'm close to death, so I'm starting to focus on the after-life, if there is one, which I doubt. But if there is an after-life and I am held accountable for all my lies and calculated deceptions I'm at least hoping there is no hell. "Please God, no hell!"

Chapter 2

Uncle Sam's Health After 3 Years Of Bush, And A Republican Controlled Congress

Brain: Uncle Sam's brain has been completely washed by the right-wing controlled media. He keeps forgetting to include America's allies in foreign military operations. He is confused by the Republican's constant reference to God as the national symbol instead of him. Mouth: Uncle Sam is tired of talking about the founders vision of an egalitarian democracy without any satisfaction. Sam's lips are swollen from getting punch in the mouth by our EU allies for attacking Iraq without their approval and UN involvement. Ears: Sam's ears ache from the loud constant repetition of lies from the Bush administration and the leaders of the Republican Party. Sam is not allowed to listen to the voices of anyone making under $200,000 a year. Hands: Sam's hands are covered with cuts and blood from the preemptive war in Iraq and the killing of women and children in Afghanistan and Iraq. His hands shake constantly from repetitive stress caused by having to work two full-time jobs for a low minimum wage, no overtime pay, and few benefits; one at Wal-Mart and one at McDonalds. Lungs: Sam has a constant hacking cough that is probably caused from second-hand smoke and the added pollution in the air caused from Bush's roll back of environmental regulations. Rid Cage: Sam's rids were crushed in a roll-over accident that was caused by a defective tire blowout in a Ford Explorer, and he has been unable to get proper medical attention due to HMO payment denials and tort reforms that limit financial recoveries. Back: Sam's back is in constant pain from having to continuously bend over and kiss the asses of all our WTO trading partners. Hips: Sam has painful arthritis in his hips caused by having to constantly run on hard surfaces to try and keep up with much cheaper international competition. Knees: Sam's knees are bruised from constantly being forced to them by multinational corporations. Feet: Sam has narrowed and fallen arches from wearing shoes made in China by child labor and sold by Wal-Mart at a huge mark-up, but that is the best Sam can afford because of Bush's mismanagement of the economy. Mental Disposition: Sam's mental state is still strong thanks to a well designed Constitution, but this could change very soon if the American people don't wake up and realize they are being conned by the whores in the fascist controlled Republican Party and the right-wing controlled media.

Hair: Uncle Sam's hair continues falling out from the pollution in the air and water caused by the Bush administrations roll back of air and water pollution regulations, and the radioactive depleted uranium used to make America's precision bombs. Sam's hair is also graying prematurely from the stress of endless partisan political fights and the corrupting influence of money in politics. Eyes: Sam's eyes are over worked and failing from having to read all the fine print in the Republican's pork-barrel stuffed legislation. Tunnel vision only allows Sam to see one side of any argument. Sam's eyes are blood-shot from the Republican's all-night arm twisting legislative bamboozle sessions. Neck: Sam's neck hurts from having to constantly turn to watch his back. Back stabbing Republicans lurk around every corner in Washington D.C. these days and Sam has a price on his head. Shoulders: Sam's shoulders are tired and slump forwards from having to carry the weight of the world since the Bush administration abandoned our international allies. Arms: Sam's arms are sore from having to pick up and move all the piles of money from the Republican's Social Security Lock-Box to the truck that is taking Bush's huge tax cuts to his extremely rich supporters down in Texas. Heart: Sam's heart is broken by the right-wing's uncompassionate legislation dealing with the young and the old in our society. Sam's arteries are clogged and weakened from his adherence to a strict high protein diet. Stomach: Sam suffers from internal bleeding caused by gut punches from the right-wing's media machine that wants Sam dead and replaced by God as the new national symbol. Liver: Sam's liver is sick with cancerous tumors caused by excessive exposure to harmful toxins in the workplace and possible Gulf War Syndrome Reaction. Prostate: Sam's prostate is swollen from excessive chlorination by-products in the drinking water, too many animal fats in his diet, and not enough exercise due to no time after working two full-time jobs all day and all night. Wallet: Sam's wallet is stuffed full of over used credit cards and IOU's, but no cash. Toes: Sam lost his toes in a precision bomb attack on a restaurant that U.S. intelligence thought that Saddam was eating at. Military says it's not their fault, Republicans blame the Democrats, but Bush says he is still proud of his administrations efforts to kill the enemies of democracy. Sam is now hiding at some unknown location.

Chapter 3

Bush Lies, But The Numbers Don't

Bush, and the neo-cons in his administration, took the U.S. into a war in Iraq based on a lie, and then they failed to provide our young soldiers with the best available equipment to help them do their job's safely. The truth is Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11 and Saddam was under the microscope of UN inspections and world-wide sanctions. But now Bush has succeeded in uniting the warring factions in Iraq into one big "hate America" gang that is killing American boys in increasing numbers. Bush's father did not go into Iraq in 1991 because he correctly believed that the cost would be to high both in dollars and American lives, and he believed America would get stuck in a long-term quagmire among hostile Arab populations. So far the cost to America has been the lives of 850+ American boys and over $200 billion dollars, and things appear to be getting worse. Is Bush winning the war on terror, or did he just create millions of new anti-American terrorist? I think the above chart graphically answers that question.

The Bush administration has decided not to allow the "press" to photograph the coffins of dead American boys returning from Iraq. However, this photograph was taken by two employees of a military contractor and given to the American public, and as a result the two employees were fired. The Bush administration knows that a picture can expose a harsh reality that words cannot, and that is why they don't want you to see pictures like this one. I guess that is Bush's way of saying "Welcome home boys!".

This chart dramatically exposes what Bush's tax cuts and spending increases have done to the federal budget. His fiscal policies have already created huge deficits that appear to be growing out of control. These new budget deficits add to the already huge federal debt, and increase interest cost to the federal government. What this chart does not show is that Bush's first tax cut, that is being phased in over the next six years, will cause the deficits to grow much higher. In fact, the largest portion of his first tax cut go into effect during the second five year period, and these tax cuts benefit the wealthiest people in our society. The cost of interest on the federal debt is quickly becoming the largest expense item in the federal budget. Despite all these budget problems Bush continues to call for making his tax cuts permanent, and pushing for new tax cuts and new spending increases. Clearly, Bush style of fiscal mismanagement is not sustainable and is unacceptable to the American people. The federal government should immediately reverse it's course and increase taxes and cut spending, otherwise the federal government will become insolvent and the American people will lose their democracy; which, I suspect, is exactly what Bush wants to happen.

This chart shows that four categories consume 3/4's of all federal spending, but what it does not show is that the two largest categories have revenues from taxes that off-set their expenses. When you off-set the revenues from Health & Human Services and Social Security these two categories actually generate a surplus to the government. Therefore, the real areas of the federal budget that are consuming almost all the tax revenues are defense spending and interest cost on the federal debt, and Bush has already drastically increased spending in both of these categories.

As you can see from the chart the total federal debt began to skyrocket in 1982, shortly after Reagan took office, and it continued to skyrocket upwards until Clinton's last four years. Now, Bush has the debt growing much faster than his father's administration, and this trend will doom the fiscal health of America if it is allowed to continue. The interest cost on this level of debt is a little over $1 billion dollars per day, 365 days a year, and it is only that low because interest rates are very low. When interest rates start heading back up this county will be in real financial trouble. When that happens taxes will need to be increased sharply and spending will need to be cut drastically just so our country can afford to pay interest on it's debt. We need leadership in Washington that will return this country to fiscal sanity.

This chart exposes that two Asian countries own a very large portion of the U.S. government's debt. If these countries suddenly decided to stop buying our U.S. Treasury Notes America could quickly find itself insolvent because of rising interest rates and a big decline in the value of our currency. Such a scenario would also cause our economy to go into a recession, and then a depression. Such a situation would force the U.S. government to begin selling off it's assets to meet it's financial obligations, otherwise the value of the dollar would drop to near zero.

As you can see from this chart the United States spends more on it's military than all the other countries of the world spend combined. Bush has greatly expanded military spending and is pushing for a new, very expensive, and probably obsolete, "star wars" space weapons shield. The "military industrial complex" that Eisenhower warned us about is winning and the American people are going to be the big losers. Bush has used the terrorist attack on 9/11 as an excuse to pass huge increases in military spending, and to start wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; and he has been threatening other countries. Despite all the money America spends on it's military it still has not provided U.S. soldiers with all the necessary equipment to keep them safe. Cheney's old company, Halliburton, was given billions of dollars in no-bid contracts to help in Iraq, and since that time it has been reported that Halliburton abused those contracts by over-charged the federal government for gas and other services.

From 1916 until around 1960 the top tax rate was around 90%. However, since that time two Republican administrations have passed huge tax cuts for the rich and the tax burden has been shifted to the middle class. Also, as a result of Nixon's and Reagan's huge tax cuts for the rich we have seen the federal budget deficits skyrocket. When Clinton got into office he raised the top tax tax rates and added a couple more tax brackets, legislation that did not receive one Republican vote, and we saw the federal budgets return to balance. Now, since Bush has taken office, he has rolled back Clinton's tax increases, and he has passed some other new huge tax cuts for the rich. The result of these actions has been a return to the huge budget deficits days of the Reagan and Bush (I) administrations. Today the budget deficits are at record levels and the total debt is skyrocketing.

This chart shows that corporations are only paying a small portion of the federal tax burden, and that middle class Americans are being asked to pick up the slack with a highly regressive Social Security tax and personal income taxes that have been shifted away from the very wealthy. For the past sixty years the percent of revenues from corporations has been steadily declining and is now at a historic low. This chart also shows that a large amount of revenues coming from Social Security taxes, but spending for Social Security off-sets most of those revenues, but these taxes still generate a large surplus that Bush has been giving away to the rich. Bush's tax cuts for the rich have made our tax system much more regressive and have caused the deficits to skyrocket. Bush attempted to pass a giant retro-active tax cut for huge corporations that would have required the federal government to send billion dollar checks to very successful multinational corporations, many of who keep their profits in off-shore accounts to avoid paying U.S. taxes. The shift from a progressive to a regressive tax system is the reason why the American people are losing their democracy. America is becoming an aristocracy, and we really don't want that to happen, trust me.

Bush told the American people that any deficits his administration created would be small and short-term, and clearly he has not keep his word. Bush also said that his first tax cut would benefit the people at the bottom the most, and that was also not true since the bottom 60% only got 16% of the benefits. Also, despite the current huge fiscal deficits Bush continues to call for more tax cuts and more increases in spending. I think these facts expose that Bush is not a fiscal conservative, or an honest person. I think these facts also expose that Bush and the Republicans in Congress are deliberately undermining the fiscal health of America in a scheme to concentrate America's wealth into the hands of a few people.

Bush claimed that his huge tax cuts, that went to the very wealthy, would create millions of new job, but instead they have created millions of job losses and trillions in new federal debts. Also, Bush and Snow have been encouraging companies to outsource their high paying jobs to foreign countries claiming that this is good for the American economy. Bush has refused to extend unemployment benefits, or to increase the poverty level minimum wage. Bush has made it very clear that he really only cares about people who are already extremely wealthy.

As you can see from the chart the Republican Party out raises and out spends the Democratic Party by a ratio of almost two to one. During the 2000 campaign Bush set the record for the most amount of money ever spent on a political campaign. All this money has a corrupting effect on our countries political leaders, and that corruption is reflected in a growing history of regressive tax legislation. Bush wants you to believe that he is the rare exception and that all this money has no effect on him. I guess that's why all of this tax cut legislation has been designed to benefit the wealthiest individuals in our society regardless of the cost to our government, or it's harmful effects on our economy. Bush and the Republicans in Congress are selling out America just a fast as they can get away with it. Cheney's political history of extreme right-wing legislation, his very rewarding "revolving door" trip with Halliburton during the 90's, and his recent secret meetings with energy industry executives, exposes how the Republicans in Congress are gaming our system of government for big rewards, but at all of our expense.

Bush has repeatedly claimed that the people at the bottom got the most benefit from his first tax cut legislation, but as you can see from the chart the people in the bottom 60% only got 16% of the total benefit. This tax cut, as well as his repeal of the dividend tax and repeal of the estate tax, went to the people in the highest income group. The Republicans in Congress often say, in support of Bush's tax cuts, that the people who pay the most taxes should also be the people who get the biggest tax break, but this is also an untruth. The truth is that the average middle class family pays a higher percentage of their income in taxes than does the average billionaire. The reason for this is because the tax code has been made regressive by several Republican administrations that passed legislation that cut the top tax rates, reduced the number of tax brackets, opened tax loopholes that only the very rich are in a position to exploit, and created a highly regressive Social Security tax system. Our system of economic opportunities for everyone is being taken away bit by bit as America's tax code is changed from a highly progressive one into a highly regressive one and as a result wealth is becoming permanently concentrated in the hands of a few people.

CO2 levels are skyrocketing and they contribute to global warming. Bush environmental policies and legislation have moved this country in the wrong direction. His policies actually encourages global warming and permit companies to dump more pollution into the air and water. He has transferred the cost of toxic clean ups from the corporations that make the mess, to you and me, the taxpayers.

The loss of the ozone layer is another major area of environmental concern that Bush's environmental policies and legislation ignore. Scientist say that the hole in the ozone over Antarctica is getting larger each year and that the ozone is thinning over large population areas in the northern hemisphere. The ozone layer protects all life from the deadly ultraviolet rays of the sun. It also effects climate, temperatures, and weather patterns. Despite the fact that we now know that harmful effects of ozone depleting chemicals on the ozone layer companies continue to produce and release these chemicals into our atmosphere.

The population of humans has been growing very fast during the past 50 years, and it is expected to continue growing very fast during the next 50 years. Bush's solutions to this problem include outlawing a woman's right to choice (abortion rights), stop funding family planning programs, and to just ignore the dangers from over population and global warming.

When you combine the rising atmospheric temperature with the rise of CO2, the disappearing ozone layer, the de-forestation of the rain forest, and the addition of tons of pollutants to our air and water supply each year it is easy to see that the human activities, and over population, are taking the earth in a harmful, and possibly catastrophic, direction. Bush's policies have been in the wrong direction with his roll back of industrial pollution regulations, roll back of drinking water regulations, roll back of air quality standards, and an energy policy that favors oil, gas, and coal over conservation and clean energy alternatives. I suspect that Bush and the Republicans in Congress have another way to deal with the problem of global warming, like the one Hitler was carrying out.

Bush and Snow have publicly endorsed the idea of lowering the value of the dollar in an effort to make American exports more attractive. However, what they don't tell you is that a cheaper dollar also lowers the standard of living for the American people and causes upward pressure on interest rates.

Bush has cut funding for the Cops program and violent crime rates are now increasing. I believe that the level of crime in our society is a direct reflection of the level of corruption in our government, and the concern our leaders show for workers at the bottom of the income class. It appears that many people are motivated to commit crimes as a form of civil disobedience as well as economic survival.

The Bush administration lied about the cost of their Medicare prescription drug bill so they could get enough votes to pass it. Now the bill is projected to cost almost $200 billion dollars more than Congress was told. As a result of this huge giveaway to the insurance and drug industries the Medicare program is now projected to go broke much sooner. The Bush administration has also been using some of these tax dollars for partisan political ads, which is not only illegal, it is immoral.

Chapter 4

Kissing Your Assets Goodbye

The federal government still owns around 30% of all the land in the America. This land belongs to the American people, unless our government goes broke, and then it will belong to the highest bidder! The current federal debt stands at $7.2 trillion dollars and is rising fast. The interest cost on this federal debt is costing American taxpayers over $1 billion dollars every day, 365 days a year. Bush and the Republican Party have been playing us for fools and it is time for them to stop their greedy con game that is designed to rob the American people of their government's assets.

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If the federal government does go broke the American people will also lose these other government owned assets:

National Parks Gold Reserves Broadcast Airways Road, Water, and Rail Right-of-Ways Coastal Waters National Treasures All The Other Physical Assets, Including Buildings, Computers, Office Furniture, Office Equipment, etc.

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Even more important to the American people will be the loss of the following intangible assets:

The Constitution The Bill of Rights The Right To Vote The Jury System of Justice 200 Years of Legal Precedents Law Enforcement Protections Religious Freedoms Separate Branches of Government Government Accountability Freedom of Speech Freedom of Religion Other Rights, Liberties, and Opportunities We Take For Granted

Don't let Bush and the Republican Party fool you with lies and excuses because this time the "trail of tears" will be from your own eyes and it will lead to a place you don't want to be.

Chapter 5

My Conversation With An American Youth In The Year 2104

If the corrupt group of Texas outlaws, that currently resides in the White House, succeeds in bankrupting our government and buying it's assets for pennies on the dollar this is how a conversation might go one hundred years from now.

 

Youth: Today at school we learned about a time when America was number one in the world, what happened to America? Me: That's true, we were number one until our politicians ignored deficit spending, and then we had a weird up spike in interest rates, a down spike in the value of our currency, and foreign governments and wealthy individuals stopped buying our treasury notes. The culmination of all these factors caused our country to go into a deep depression and then national insolvency, in other words, we went bankrupt. Youth: Why didn't our leaders just raise taxes and cut spending? Me: The Republicans wouldn't let us. Youth: What are Republicans? Me: The Republican were some very disloyal con artist who infiltrated our government and deliberately undermined the fiscal health of our country so they could line their own pockets and the pockets of their super wealthy supporters. Youth: Did they have to pay for their disloyalty and subversive acts of treason? Me: Oh yes, when the America people realized they had been conned and ripped off they rose up and killed most of them, but many of them were able to run off and hide from the angry mobs. Youth: Did people back then have lots of candles to give them light and help keep them warm while they hunted down the treasonous Republican thieves and their supporters? Me: We didn't need candles because we had electrify that we generated from burning fossil fuels. We could just turn a switch and on came light, and we could turn another switch and on came heat. But we used up all our fuel and since our country was broke we were forced to switch back to candles. Youth: Why did you use up all your fossil fuels? Didn't you realize what would happened if you did? Me: Well we didn't use up all the fossil fuels, it just became to expensive and since our country was broke, and there were no jobs, so we had to give up using them. Youth: Was the burning of fossil fuels what cause the sea levels to rise, and poisoned the air and water? And is that why I cannot allow the sun's rays to touch my skin? Me: Yes, we burned so many fossil fuels the air became hot from the greenhouse effect and this caused the ice caps to melt and the sea levels to rise. As the seas became warmer the thermal expansion caused massive flooding and this caused the release of even more CO2 into our atmosphere and this further heated up the planet. In additional, many of the by-products of fossil fuels caused the ozone layer to disappear and that made the sun's rays poison to our skin. Youth: If it was so hot then, why is it so cold now? Me: Well, a lot of people did not survive the ensuing drought, plagues, disease, and destruction and with most of the people gone, and most of the other animals and forest gone, the climate made a radical swing back in the other direction. Now we live in a post modern ice age. Youth: Will we ever have warmth again and lots of food to eat? Me: I just don't know. Youth: can I have my daily bread and water now? Me: sure.

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