(6/8/2005) In 2001 President Bush was traveling around the U.S. telling people that his economic plan, that included tax cuts of over $1 trillion, would create new job and cause economic growth, but he was lying. How do I know this? Because it's now over four years later and I can look back see what really happened.

Bush first tax cuts ended up at $1.7 trillion and primarily went to the people at the top. The cost of these tax cuts were keep deceptively low by sun-setting them after 10 years. In 2011 these tax cuts go away, but Bush does not want that to happen so he has been spending a large portion of his time and energy trying to sell the American people on the idea of making these tax cuts permanent.

Instead of these tax cuts creating new jobs we have lost over 2 million jobs. Instead of economic growth we have had an economy that is being keep afloat on a mountain of new debt. Instead of Bush being an honorable man and admitting his mistake he has tried to pass more tax cuts for the rich.

Most economist warned us that Bush's tax cuts would have a negative effect on our economy. In fact, many prominent economist told us that these tax cuts were totally reckless and would only benefit the very rich. They said that Bush's numbers did not add up, and they were right about all their predictions, and Bush was wrong.

Bush was not only wrong about his tax cuts, but he has been wrong about a number of different things, as the following list indicates:

• We have a country that is sliding deeper in debt due to huge and growing budget deficits that are a direct result of Bush's tax cuts and spending increases.

• We are fighting a $350 billion dollar war in Iraq that Bush started based on a lie, and now he refuses to stop.

• We have state governments in dire need of financial help because of Bush's un-funded mandates and cuts in federal funds.

• We have looming Social Security shortfalls that Bush's bad budget choices have made much worse and much more urgent.

• We have un-funded homeland security needs and porous borders because of Bush's backwards priorities and failing budgets.

• We have public schools that need additional funds from the federal government, but Bush is only interested in new testing programs and school vouchers.

• We have a Medicare system that Bush's pork filled drug benefit legislation has pushed to the brink of insolvency.

• We have a President who is only interested in making his tax cuts for the rich permanent, and in passing new tax cuts for the rich and for the big highly profitable energy companies.

So if the economist were right about Bush tax cuts, and Bush was wrong, than why is Bush still pushing for more tax cuts and more spending increases while claiming the federal budget will be back in balance in 5 years? Why doesn't he believe the economist when they continue to tell him that his numbers just don't add up?

The answer is really very simple. Bush doesn't care if his numbers add up, and he never did. The reason he doesn't care is because he is not an honest person and he is whoring himself for some rich families who are in the process of robbing our government and undermining our democracy. The above list reflects this thieving treason that Bush and the GOP are a key part of making happen.

In Bush's evil little mind the ends justify the means. His constant lying to the American people is just the means to an end. He lied about his tax cuts, the war in Iraq, his plan for Social Security, his Medicare prescription drug benefit legislation, his relationship with Ken Lay of Enron, and other legislation that he intends to ram down our throats.

The reality is that a handful of super rich families are looting the American government and Bush and the Republicans in Congress are helping them. It's time for the American people to wake up to this reality and react accordingly. Otherwise, once our democracy is gone, and our federal government is bankrupt, we will be living in a ruthless cruel plutocracy with no opportunities to improve, or change our situations.

Bush's entire agenda dates back to the Nixon and Reagan administration's policies and has three key parts:

• Large tax cuts for the rich.

• Large increases in federal spending.

• Distract and mislead the public.

Bush did not invent, or brainstorm, these policies. The wealthy families who are pulling Bush's strings created these policies for the benefit of themselves. Bush is just their money whoring political puppet and he is playing his part in a long-term financial scam that is going to cost the American people much more than just money.

Bush is a lot like a crooked used car salesman trying to sell a lemon to a hard working middle class family. He doesn't care about this family, their savings, or their safety, he just cares about himself and his boss. He is drooling over the thought of a big fat commission check and he is willing to lie his ass off to get it. He is pushing hard because that is what he has been told to do, and that is how he will get his slice of the pie that will keep his family wealthy for generations to come.

Bush knows that if he lies often enough he can confuse and fool a majority of the American people, and get filthy rich in the process. So that is exactly what he has been doing, and that is what he will continue to do until his puppeteers are forced to retreat from their treasonous plan against our government and our democracy. And only the American people have the power to put the fear of God into these people's minds.

The truth about Bush's tax cuts are the opposite of what he wants you to believe. The best way to create new jobs and grow the economy is by increasing taxes on the top 1% of income earners, and then use that additional tax revenue to pay down the national debt and shore-up the Social Security trust fund. President Clinton proved this in 1993 when the raised the top tax rates and increased the number of tax brackets.

The results of Clinton's tax increases on the rich included 22 million new jobs, low unemployment, low interest rates, low inflation, over one million new millionaires in just eight years, a fast growing economy, and a federal budget turnaround from huge deficits to huge surpluses.

Not one Republican voted for Clinton's tax increase, and many warned that the economy would be wrecked, and unemployment would skyrocket, if it passed. But we can now look back and see that these Republicans were totally wrong.

Unfortunately, most people have very short memories, including myself, and the GOP uses that fact to their advantage by confusing the American people with lies, finger pointing, and media propaganda. They took credit for the positive economic results that Clinton's policies produced, and many people believed them.

The difference between Clinton's and Bush's economic and tax policies are not a question of different approaches to achieving growth and jobs. It's about having a democracy in America, or having a few people with all the wealth. Bush, and his fellow Republican money whores in the U.S. congress, are clearly on the side of wealth concentration and they will say, or do, anything to make sure they get their way.

This year Bush's leadership will give America a new record budget deficit of over $570 billion dollars, and it will borrow every penny from the Social Security trust fund. He has never accepted any responsibility for this horrible performance, and he blames it on everyone and everything else except himself. The only solutions he offers to correct this situation are more big tax cuts for the rich and more spending increases. Both of which are solutions that make absolutely no sense.

The Republican's most recent budget predicts that the federal government will add $6.4 trillion dollars to the national debt over the next ten years, and those numbers are based on unrealistic hopeful assumptions. He wants us to hear the spin and ignore the facts. That way when the shit hits the fan he can pass the blame and lots of people will believe him.

If the Republican's budgets projections are correct the national debt will skyrocket to over $12.6 trillion and interest cost on the debt will become the largest spending item in the federal budget. I suspect the Republican's numbers are overly conservative and a much larger deficit, combined with rising interest rates and poor economic performance, will quickly push our government beyond the point of insolvency.

If our government is unable to pay it's bills it will be forced to begin liquidating it's assets (your assets!) for pennies on the dollar. This will make the rich a lot richer to the tune of $100 trillion, and everyone else poor. When this happens many Americans will blame the Democrats for this failure because the GOP will spin it that way.

Bush's conservative ideology is as false as his reasons for invading Iraq. He thinks we are all fools and suckers for his fascist con-job and he is playing us like we are all just a bunch of punk ass bitches.

Following are some examples of how the Bush administration is robbing our government, undermining our democracy, and using convoluted logic to sell us like we're a bunch of ignorant fools:

• Bankrupt The Federal Government. Bush is running up huge budget deficits to show us the Republicans where right when they called for a constitution amendment to balance the federal budget. He always blames the deficits on spending and never on government revenues, and yet he is constantly increasing total spending and cutting revenues. He has an MBA from Harvard, but he acts like someone who has problems with simple addition and subtraction.

• Rob Social Security. Bush is going to save the Social Security system by privatizing it into a Wall Street gamble. In other words, he is going to save it by increasing its overhead administrative cost, by cutting benefits, and by borrowing trillions of dollars to finance the whole rip-off plan. Younger workers are for Bush's plan because they don't know the actual details of how the plan is designed to work. Once they are informed about the facts they oppose his plan. This type of ignorance about the issues is the reason for most of Bush's loyal supporter's continued support.

• Control The Legal System. Bush is appointing, nominating, and re-nominating extreme right-wing people to life time positions on the federal courts proving that he is not a uniter as he promised he would be. This is also a distraction technique to keep people from focusing on the serious issues his administration has created. And it's a psychological manipulative technique to rally his base of supporters against the Democrat's obvious obstructionism against these highly qualified nominees.

• Rob The Public Schools. Bush is going to improve the public school system by encouraging people to leave the system with vouchers. His plan reduces funds to public schools and encourages profit hungry corporations to get into the education business. But it's really just a ploy to generate greater demand for commercial real estate and to undermine the public school system. 

• Help Multi-National Corporations. Bush is going to reform the tort laws with personal responsibility by limiting the public's right to win lawsuits, and my limiting the public's right to decide penalties (jury awards). His plan weakens the power of the American people over America's corporations, and it shields negligent and fraudulent corporations from accountability.

• Help The Military-Industrial Complex. Bush is going to liberate the Iraqi people by bombing, killing, assassinating, propagandizing, and occupying it's people and country based on a false premise. A handful of American corporations are reaping the benefits, and the American taxpayers are getting stuck with the bill and their children are getting slaughtered by the hundreds.

• Ignore Our Allies. Bush is going to teach our allies that we don't need them or respect their opinions because "might makes right" and we have might. Bush's go-it-alone war in Iraq has put the entire cost of the war on the backs of the American people. He has slapped our allies in their collective faces, and now our allies feel sorry for the American people because they know that we are getting screwed by this evil right-wing leadership and the families who fund them.

• Fascist Control. Bush is going to help the Palestinian people by giving their Jewish oppressors more money and military support, and by his administrations silence. He pays lip service to a separate Palestinian state, but his actions expose the exact opposite policy. Bush is whoring himself for the Jews and the American people are going to pay for it. 

• Phase Out Social Programs. Bush is going to violate the constitutional separation of church and state by forcing the poor to accept Jesus before they can receive aid from the government. His "Faith Based Initiatives" are a poor substitute for the many government run social programs that have keep the American people out of poverty.

Bush and the Republicans in the U.S. Congress are nothing more than white collar con-artists who are whoring themselves for a few families with huge concentrations of wealth. These few families and their puppets in Congress are robbing our government of its assets and they are undermining our democracy. In other words, they are the "con-artist" and we are their "marks" and our government's 100 trillion in assets are the "prize".

We need to treat Bush, the Republicans in Congress, and these few mega wealthy families like we would treat a thief that broke into our home in the middle of the night, because they are robbing each and every one of us everyday they are in power.

Bush and the GOP are playing us like we are all just a bunch of punk ass bitches who can't put two and two together. They think the bigger the lie they tell us the harder we will fall for it, and so far they have been right. The question is, are we going to let them get away with it?