The first question we must ask is why anyone believes anything Bush has to say. He lied to get us into a war, therefore he'll stop at nothing to get what he wants. He is a master liar with no qualms and the knowledge that fear makes people more susceptible to his lies. He does not care what happens to you or me, he only cares about his ultra-wealthy base.
I for one am ready to call his bluff, take his chips and send him limping back to Crawford/Houston/South America with his tail between his legs.
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The way I see it, there's nothing so bad that can happen on Wall Street that Main Street can't clean up. The talent and resources are here, as is the American Spirit(something multi-nationals corporations can't understand).
Take Wall Mart, for instance. They swept into towns, drove local businesses out, took over a good chunk of the retail business and now only sells cheaply-made, Chinese, lead-based crap - and since they outsource to China, they also drive American manufacturing out of business. They don't care about America.
If your corporate masters cared about you or America, would they do this? Would oil companies sell oil abroad and profit while you and America suffer? Would they hold tax-free, offshore accounts to avoid contributing their fair share in taxes (while our broken infrastructure crumbles further)? Would they continue to pollute us and America while other options are available if they gave a flying-pig's shit about us and America?
You know what I say? Fuck the greedy bastards. If they knew the whole ship would go down, then their reach was beyond their cold, greedy grasp (or vice versa). Also, there's the little point that if the actions of a few could bring down the ship, then those few have too much power and influence to live. These middle-class hating, quarterly profit over America thinking bandits must go.
Let them go broke and bankrupt under the new, tougher bankruptcy laws they helped to write. Fuck 'em twice. It could only do this country a lot of good one town at a time.
Imagine big, corporate pig farms having to give way to the family farmer. Imagine mom and pop shops taking over at the shopping malls that make it so hard to distinguish one town from another. Imagine meat and produce that come from local sources saving so much fuel. Hey, at this rate, we might even see the rise of soda jerks again (they'll be wired, though!).
Personally, I'm willing to ride out the storm (with my wife and three kids), and I'm pretty sure that once the storm is over, things will be better than we've seen in a long, long time.
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