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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

And what will all this get the country?   "another day older and deeper in 
debt."

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Clansgian AT wmconnect.com>
> Essentially, Gene, you posit is correct, but the fact is Bush IS done, 
> that
> is, the die is cast.  The 'final solution' is set into motion and he could 
> drop
> dead and it would still pay out.
>
> You still naively think that. As far as inflicting his own interests on 
> the
> rest of us, Bush was the right hand punch and Obama is the follow-up left. 
> The
> old coal miner song 'Sixteen Tons" contains the couplet:
>
> "I've got one fist of iron, the other of steel
> If the right one don't get you, then the left one will!"
>
> Bush, like of all his ilk, bought his own schtick.  He really believes 
> that
> the only way any of us can have beans on the table is if they tinkle down 
> from
> the monstrously wealthy above us.  When you protest about his largesse to 
> his
> wealthy buddies, he blinks and stares and says you are trying to take away 
> the
> source of succor, the ONLY source, from the poor.  After all, if you 
> bridle
> the rich, there will be nothing to tinkle down on you and you will be 
> ruined.
> That's idiotic of course, even evil, but it is what the Bush's of the 
> world
> earnestly believe.
>
> That's the right hand blow.
>
> Obama believes his own schtick as well (and so far, it seems you believe 
> his
> schtick).  The only reason some people are poor is because the rich have 
> too
> much.  If we just took some of that stuff from the rich, there would be 
> plenty
> to give to the poor, the old 'divide up the pie' ploy.   History and 
> reality
> firmly remind us that this is not true.  Once you start sticking your 
> finger in
> to someone else's pie, they stop baking pies.
>
> All jibbing aside (for this post only) and being straight for once, set 
> aside
> all the 'yes we can' and 'change the changes' and 'he's a decent man' and 
> all
> that empty rhetoric.  What is Obama going to do?  From what we've seen so 
> far
> it is a rehash of the worst of the New Deal and the Great Society.
>
> That is, by Bush (and ilk) facilitating the worst of the greedy instintcs 
> of
> the American people, he has delivered us an almighty right hand blow with 
> his
> fist of iron.  Now, Obama facilitating all the worst of our dependent and
> slothful instincts, is winding up to give us an almighty left hand blow 
> with his
> fist of steel.
>
> The only bright spot in this is that as the Obama administration undwinds,
> perhaps we sill at long last look up from our punch drunk haze and say 
> with
> bloodied lips, "Enough of this!" and quit this left-right destructive 
> punching
> we've experienced our entire lifetimes.