2008 Woodie Awards
Bothered by Bush's Big Blunders
A thread of hope lies ahead for the U.S. in 2008, all we need is to wait out the rest of the Bush years.
Kelsey Field
Issue date: 4/7/06 Section: Opinions
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As the Iraq war continues on, the cost of it is approaching half a trillion dollars. Besides the fact that we should not have entered into this ridiculous waste of money in the first place, now that we are in, we are in it for the long haul. I hate to break it to you Bushy-poo, but Democracy building is not cheap. This is not the Soviet Union, which tumbled and found Democracy. The façade of nuclear weapons turned out to be false, the reason why we went into the war in the first place and people are still not flooding the streets in protest. Maybe they do not care, it has not affected their lives. But what really bothers me is that we are spending all this money on the Iraq war, and when our own country gets blown away by hurricanes, all the sudden there is not enough money to go around while the war continues to suck the banks dry.
Then there was the little issue of FEMA, which really made obvious the incompetence of our government, starting at the very top. Note to the President - you cannot just appoint people with very important duties who have no idea what to do when a real tragedy hits. Yes, it is very different in real life than what you have read in your text books.
So now that we are in the war, we are stuck. Then there is the little issue of our debt, which has sky rocketed out of control with no end in sight…at least until 2008, that is. However, until then we have to deal with the idiocracy of the ruling party allowing for blank checks to be written. Just recently, congress moved the debt ceiling from $781 billion to $9 trillion. Some people do not think that the national debt is a problem. Unfortunately, the national debt increases every day by $2.42 billion, beginning September 30th, 2005. As of today, April 3 2006 at 2:28:23 PM GMT, the outstanding dept is $8,379,790, 610,348.80, according to brillig.com, which has a national debt counter. So far that is $28,030.71 per person living in the United States. Oh no, the debt is fine. Right.
Then there was the little issue of FEMA, which really made obvious the incompetence of our government, starting at the very top. Note to the President - you cannot just appoint people with very important duties who have no idea what to do when a real tragedy hits. Yes, it is very different in real life than what you have read in your text books.
So now that we are in the war, we are stuck. Then there is the little issue of our debt, which has sky rocketed out of control with no end in sight…at least until 2008, that is. However, until then we have to deal with the idiocracy of the ruling party allowing for blank checks to be written. Just recently, congress moved the debt ceiling from $781 billion to $9 trillion. Some people do not think that the national debt is a problem. Unfortunately, the national debt increases every day by $2.42 billion, beginning September 30th, 2005. As of today, April 3 2006 at 2:28:23 PM GMT, the outstanding dept is $8,379,790, 610,348.80, according to brillig.com, which has a national debt counter. So far that is $28,030.71 per person living in the United States. Oh no, the debt is fine. Right.