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Bush Wants To Bankrupt America: There is Method To His Madness

By Sam Hamod

07/01/03: Some have wondered if GW Bush knows what he's doing with his tax
cut that benefits the corporations and the very rich, and cuts away the
remaining money of the poor and the middle class. I say yes, he does know
what he'd up to, as do his corporate advisors and his neo-con economist
friends and theorists, chief among them Grover Norquist. Norquist has been
the chief architect behind the dismantling of the American federal
financial structure in terms of benefits for the common citizen, but has
helped to create the superstructure of tax breaks for the very rich and
the corporatocracy that now has a choke-hold on America.

The plan is very simple, but not obvious on first blush. Make sure that
all the money is gone from the U.S. treasury, make sure the deficits are
so great that all social and educational programs are cut, increase the
military and security budgets to "protect our nation" with all these
monies going to corporations and security firms who are extra-national
(not tied to any country, but actually more than multi-national in that
they are outside the purview of any nation at any single moment) and stave
in the social security fund by allowing it to go to private corporations
for "investment"-and you have the perfect scenario for saying, "only the
private sector can save us-we're broke and they have the money to run
every program, fund every program, but of course, at huge costs and
profits for the private corporations." Our only resource will be the
corporate lenders, especially the large extra-national corporations who
will have loyalty to no one except their corporate coffers and large share
owners throughout the world.

This plan is so obvious at this point that it is hard to believe because
it is happening so fast and the Democrats and even conservative non-
neo-con Republicans don't realize what Bush and his neo-con buddies are up
to.

Of course, this is easier to accomplish with all of our attention being
focused on 9/11 matters, Bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, the WMDs, threats to
our nation, threats to our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan (where we lose
troops everyday to Iraqis and Afghans fighting against our occupation),
but we keep sending in more troops to basically protect Bechtel and
Halliburton. Soon, we'll also hire private contractor troops, some from
other countries and others from selected American security firms. All the
time we are occupied with this, just as Orwell predicted in his novel,
1984, the Bush team will be destroying our civil liberties and taking away
our social and educational programs in order to fund "security measures"
and will keep blinking yellow, orange, and red codes at us.

I want to make this article short so that you have time to think about
this and alert your congressperson and senator as to what's really going
on. Bush has already started pushing for privatization in Iraq and
Afghanistan and in America-it's only a short step from this huge debt he
has created from the great surplus he inherited. *God only knows what kind
of deficit he's going to create as he lets the dollar drop freely, so that
consumers have to pay more for goods and our balance of trade goes to
hell, the national debt at its current rate will take over 100 years to
pay off-if we can even then get a hold on it according to some economists
who are upset (see articles by Paul Krugman and others)sat the Bush team's
actions. But they fail to see the real motive behind all this seeming
disaster. Yes, it's a disaster for us, but it's a windfall for Bush and
his corporate friends who will soon be running everything. *Actually,
through their lobbying, they are running most things at this point-simply
see the astounding inflation in drug prices compared to the low national
inflation rate, the false "shortage of natural gas"-a commodity that is
endless in the world and in its supply in America-the artificial shortage
of electricity (as done by Enron and others to jack up prices and now FERC
saying that though California did sign contracts with utilities under
duress, they are still bound by the contracts even though they were lied
to when signing the contracts-which is fraud in any honest person's mind,
but not in the mind of FERC) and now our need for added security that is
endless because it will not be long before Bush brings terrorists to our
shores by either his behavior, or allows some actors within the Republican
camp to fake terrorist raids so that possibly martial law will follow.

Friends, we are in a mess of catastrophic proportions on so many fronts
that it will be difficult to unravel all the various strains of this
explosive Bushian virus. I use the term virus, because Bush is trying to
pack the courts with his appointees from the neo-con right, placing
government officials in corporations and in some cases, in law schools so
that the neo-con approach to the destruction of the federal government may
have academic credentials and blessings. Yes, this is an artificially
created virus intended to kill the patient-namely, our democracy and our
formerly free and decent lives.


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