BUSHISM of the Day

"We need to counter the shock wave of the evildoer by having individual rate cuts accelerated and by thinking about tax rebates." ---4 October 2001


I had not really recognized how quickly Bush's administration was working to use Sept 11, 2001 to its political advantage until I read this quote. We can counter the evildoer by giving people tax rebates. Who needs to ask the nation for sacrifices in the face of danger when we can go about Republican business as usual and give the rich all of their (sweat-free) money back to them while placing a heavier tax burden on the middle class, and selling all of our debt to the one great nation-state that remains a military threat to this nation? Is it no wonder that the number of people living below the poverty line in the U.S. increased by nearly four million people last year? The policies of Reagan-Bush have proven once again that 'trickle-down' economics is a fallacy, and that all they do is decrease the size of the middle class. It is policies like these that Karl Marx had in mind that would lead to the elimination of the middle class and the eventual overthrow of the bourgeousie by the proletariat. Our world has never seen a truly Marxist state, but give Bush and his ilk enough time and we will.