George Bush and the Four Horseman

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George Bush and the Four Horsemen
by Mike Whitney
www.dissidentvoice.org
October 11, 2005



It’s becoming apparent to even the most avid Bush loyalist that the current charlatan-in-chief has been the greatest catastrophe in the nation’s 200-year history. Regrettably, there are strong indications that the Crawford albatross is planning to pull us further downward towards the ocean floor.

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In the next six months the country will face its greatest challenge since the Civil War. The confluence of potential threats is unprecedented. Experts are predicting that oil supplies will not meet demand in the first quarter of 2006. This is bound to cause skyrocketing prices, long lines at gas stations, a downward trend in the economy, and a declining dollar. The American economic landscape, already full of potholes, is heading for an even bumpier road ahead. The soaring deficits, the jobless recovery, the humongous housing bubble, and a personal savings rate lower than any time since the Great Depression, all foreshadow an end to the giddy Clinton-era prosperity. Meanwhile, the Bush troupe is on a spending bacchanal that’s put the country on the fast track to ruin. Bush is like the girl who couldn’t say no, shoveling out the bucket loads of cash to every mega-corporation that lines up at the White House lawn with a begging bowl in hand. A quick review of Iraq (where the $18 billion in reconstruction money vanished into the flannel pockets of Bush constituents) or New Orleans (the next destination for the ravenous corporate parasites) shows that the well-oiled system of cronyism is in full meltdown mode. There’s simply not enough payola to fill the coffers of every crook in the Bush phone directory.

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It’s no wonder the Bush administration chose Iraq as the second domino in its global crusade.  The oil business is built on projections and we can be reasonably certain that they saw that the wiggle room was disappearing from the market. The collection of corporate kingpins in the administration is not persuaded by sentimentality; they don’t trudge off to war for freedom or democracy, but cold, hard cash. The chance to control the last of the world’s oil proved irresistibly seductive, especially since it was the only way to perpetuate the caste system that has dominated the planet since the eighteenth century. It’s impossible to imagine that Bush or his fellows would abdicate what they believe is their birthright: the continuation of elite white male rule into perpetuity.

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Bad luck follows Bush like a shadow. Another three years and the frogs and locusts will be collecting at the borders ready to pick the last flaccid strands of flesh off the American dream. Even barring another onslaught of biblical type hurricanes, the steady militarization, the flat-lining economy, and the bird flu will certainly finish us off. The first major wrinkles in the oil supply are expected sometime in January. We can assume the credit weary, overextended American public will be gasping for air shortly thereafter.

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Oct05/Whitney1011.htm

[Cha]

1. Too bad the USA is

so closely tied in with *..

"Bad luck follows Bush like a shadow. Another three years and the frogs and locusts will be collecting at the borders ready to pick the last flaccid strands of flesh off the American dream. Even barring another onslaught of biblical type hurricanes, the steady militarization, the flat-lining economy, and the bird flu will certainly finish us off. The first major wrinkles in the oil supply are expected sometime in January. We can assume the credit weary, overextended American public will be gasping for air shortly thereafter."

Looks like we're all going to have to go down when bush hits the sewer.