A REAL LAME DUCK -- BUSH CAN DUCK SHOES, BUT NOT RESPONSIBILITY

In several weeks, President Bush's horrible reign of incompetence will be over. However, the White House PR effort to spin history is in full effect.

Well, we know now that Bush can duck thrown shoes pretty well....but he can't duck responsibility for what he and his cronies have done...

He can't go away fast enough...his administration's PR effort to whitewash his eight horrible years...is pathetic. He is one of the the worst of lame ducks in history doing little or nothing as the economy continues to collapse. Bush is very reminiscent of another Republican -- Herbert Hoover -- in the midst of the Great Depression.

Historians will be brutal in detailing Bush's years of arrogance, hypocrisy, corruption, callousness, false piety, incompetence, deceitfulness....subversion of our democratic ideals...

here's a couple poems about that...Thank God...it is almost over.

GP

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IT'S YOUR PROBLEM

It's your problem.
I am not responsible.
I am only running the country.

Lost a city.
So sorry.

Lost a son or daughter.
My condolences.

Costly wars, hurricanes,
terrorist attacks.

Oh well.

Just fodder so I have more
fictions about freedom &
Democracy to sell.

It's your problem.
Isn't that clear.

The buck stops anywhere but here.

It's your problem.
Got no safety net.
Can't count on our help.

You're on your own

Your government is out on loan
to line the pockets
of everyone I know.

You're on your own.


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WHO'S THAT ON MY TELEPHONE LINE?

Who's that on my telephone line?
A government spy?

Snooping in my records and files
saying it's all justified
using that tired
terrorism line.

What you do in my name is already
a crime before you tapped my telephone line.

A collect call.

This is Al Queda calling

We never imagined we'd have so much
success turning America against itself.

With all this spying we don't have to do a thing.

Got you living scared
and questioning and turning
against your own values.

George Pappas
Copyright 2008

THIS ECONOMY IS SET ON STUPID

A few years ago, while I was visiting Santa Barbara, I saw a homeless man holding up a sign with the phrase "This Economy is Set on Stupid."

This week we truly found out just how prescient his message was as we watched in disbelief as our country's economic situation rapidly deteriorated into the worst near collapse since the depression.
How could this happen?
Very simple -- greed, rampant greed.
These past 8 years the Bush Administration was worse than drunken sailors on leave -- spending out of control...all the while unraveling the government oversight functions and safeguards and encouraging the banks to hand out loans to anyone regardless if they could handle the financial terms.
Didn't we learn anything from the depression? How could we remove bank regulations...and let Wall Street run rampant?

And now the government is handing out corporate bailouts while the rest of us do without.

Everywhere you look....unemployment, gas prices, layoffs...homelessness are on the rise....
everything but our incomes....

GP

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THIS ECONOMY IS SET ON STUPID

The homeless and wayward
are everywhere in Santa Barbara

They walk across streets wearing blankets
creating tents on the sidewalks
to escape from the cold.

One homeless man held a sign that
read "Please help. This economy is set
on stupid."

The dark side of life never far from view
on the picturesque beaches.
Human forms huddled under blankets
in front of fashionable stores.

The city father's gentrification effort is not
complete.
They can't sweep these broken people under
the proverbial rug.

With gentrification comes alienation
and economic decimation.

Yes...the man was right.
This economy is set on stupid.

George Pappas
Copyright 2008