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Edited on Sun Jan-22-06 04:34 PM by Lefty48197
Thanks to George W. Bush and his handlers, we are right in the middle of the biggest money grab in world history. The rich and powerful are working full time to line their pockets with our money, before the window of the Bush Presidency closes. George W. Bush is literally holding open our front doors, while his campaign contributors loot our homes and personal wealth.
As soon as Bush took office, the big money grab began. First it was tax cuts for the ultra-rich. Then it was more tax cuts for the ultra-rich. Meanwhile, the debt and deficit soared, passing the cost of those tax cuts onto to every other American taxpayer, born or unborn.
Throughout it all, the large corporations gained tax breaks of their own. They also gained deregulation and a lack of oversight, which allowed them to try their accounting schemes and line their individual pockets, while leaving their shareholders holding worthless stock certificates. Big Business also gained the open door policy into the White House and Dick Cheney's office, which allowed the corporate executives to write the very legislation that would (de)regulate their particular industries.
Large retailers, led by Walmart, decided that they wanted in on the action, so now nearly every single product sold on their shelves is manufactured in China by workers earning slave-wages, working under inhumane working conditions, ignoring their severely detrimental effects on the environment, and generally doing a whole host of things that could get the corporate executives tossed in jail, if they dared try those things in this country.
Not to be outdone, the energy and health insurance industries jumped into the action. We saw what happened in California a few years ago with the manipulation of the energy market that caused blackouts and needlessly caused enormous price increases for consumers. Today, the oil industry is getting "their share" as all of the major oil companies are raking in record profits, in spite of the high gasoline prices that are crippling our economy. The natural gas industry decided to get it's piece of the pie this winter as they jacked their prices up on the order of 100%. Meanwhile heating oil and diesel fuel prices also helped keep the cash registers stuffed at the American energy companies.
The health insurance companies are also making record profits, while more and more Americans go without health insurance. I think we're up to 50 million uninsured Americans these days. Those that do have insurance are paying higher premiums every year, while getting less coverage, increased co-pays, and a whole lot of run-around from the national Republican party.
Wall Street wants their share, so the Bush junta is trying to privatize our Social Security accounts, in order to pump billions of dollars into the stockmarket, which will help both the big money interests of Wall St. and the big money interests of corporate America. Nevermind that the stock market has flatlined for five straight years, and that future retirees would suffer greatly under Bush's privatization plan. The Republicans are only interested in facilitating the big money grab that transfers money from those that have only a little bit, to those that already have a whole lot.
Credit card companies? They're now charging interest rates that used to be called "loan sharking". Now they're called "business as usual" in George W. Bush's America.
Wages and benefits are being curtailed, and the buying power of minimum wage earners continues to fall behind inflation. What are the corporations doing with the extra money they gain from wages and benefits that effectively get cut year after year? They're lining their pockets with some of it. They're buying homes and funding college educations for their children, grandchildren, and unborn great grandchildren too.
And it's all at the expense of the American consumer. Those that want to buy homes of their own, those that want to send their own children to college and complete the American dream for their families are watching their dreams fade away, all because George W. Bush is helping the rich and powerful take money out of our pockets on a daily basis. They must feel like kids in a candystore, taking candy from babies. Where are the adults?
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