US Debt Hitting $8 trillion....and counting...
screwge said:
I read this thread and weep. In other threads, I have pointed out the incredible debt of the US ($7 trillion) and the huge annual deficit ($413 billion : source US Treasury). The US is going down an economic crap hole. Osama doesn’t have to do anything now. You’re doing it to yourselves.
The details of OBL’s tape just released in the last day confirm that his intention is to grind the US economy into the ground.
From OBL’s perspective: Bush didn’t finish the job with him and has Iran and N. Korea in his sights. Kerry says OBL is the enemy. Wouldn’t you want to help Bush get elected? Consider: Bush will continue heavy payments to the military and will continue against the evil triangle and make the US economy even worse in doing so. And OBL will be able to sit back and watch. If things get too calm, all he has to do is threaten to blow up a couple of “soccer moms� and there will be a flurry of even more expensive protective measures.
In short, as hideous a person as OBL is, he’s very intelligent and has found a way to turn American patriotism back on itself. US blind patriotism is OBL’s biggest weapon – a weapon of self-destruction.
Lets hope our US friends awake from their patriotic torpor and see the light before it is too late.
Makes you wonder who is winning their respective war(s), Bush or Osama, who says he can bankrupt the USA as he did the USSR. Congress was just forced to raised the Debt limit to $8 trillion to keep the US Govt afloat. In the US interest rates are climbing, inflation is becoming a problem, the US dollar is still falling at a rate that may precipitate a US dollar crisis.
And now Bush looks as if his will be taking his 'evildoer' crusade to Iran. Afterall he has his 'mandate' and because he hears 'voices' he knows he is right.
All this brings to mind that old Pete Seeger song sung during the Viet Nam War, "Waist Deep in the Big Muddy".
WAIST DEEP IN THE BIG MUDDY
It was back in nineteen forty-two,
I was a member of a good platoon.
We were on maneuvers in-a Loozianna,
One night by the light of the moon.
The captain told us to ford a river,
That's how it all begun.
We were -- knee deep in the Big Muddy,
But the big fool said to push on.
The Sergeant said, "Sir, are you sure,
This is the best way back to the base?"
"Sergeant, go on! I forded this river
'Bout a mile above this place.
It'll be a little soggy but just keep slogging.
We'll soon be on dry ground."
We were -- waist deep in the Big Muddy
And the big fool said to push on.
The Sergeant said, "Sir, with all this equipment
No man will be able to swim."
"Sergeant, don't be a Nervous Nellie,"
The Captain said to him.
"All we need is a little determination;
Men, follow me, I'll lead on."
We were -- neck deep in the Big Muddy
And the big fool said to push on.
All at once, the moon clouded over,
We heard a gurgling cry.
A few seconds later, the captain's helmet
Was all that floated by.
The Sergeant said, "Turn around men!
I'm in charge from now on."
And we just made it out of the Big Muddy
With the captain dead and gone.
We stripped and dived and found his body
Stuck in the old quicksand.
I guess he didn't know that the water was deeper
Than the place he'd once before been.
Another stream had joined the Big Muddy
'Bout a half mile from where we'd gone.
We were lucky to escape from the Big Muddy
When the big fool said to push on.
Well, I'm not going to point any moral;
I'll leave that for yourself
Maybe you're still walking, you're still talking
You'd like to keep your health.
But every time I read the papers
That old feeling comes on;
We're -- waist deep in the Big Muddy
And the big fool says to push on.
Waist deep in the Big Muddy
And the big fool says to push on.
Waist deep in the Big Muddy
And the big fool says to push on.
Waist deep! Neck deep! Soon even a
Tall man'll be over his head, we're
Waist deep in the Big Muddy!
And the big fool says to push on!
Words and music by Pete Seeger (1967)
Have faith folks, Capt. Dubya is at the helm as he leads point across that river........