It’s Official: Team BushCo Will Sink to Any Depths to Protect the Wealthy Elite from Paying Taxes
BushCo has finally done it. His “management style,” so heralded in the corporate media, but which in reality is a nothing more than incompetence that runs every outfit he touches into the ground, forcing investors to wait around for Daddy or Daddy’s friends to bail him out, has brought the US to its knees:
From the Indian Ocean tsunami to the church around the corner, Americans have shown time and again they are willing to open their pocketbooks for charity, for a total of about $250 billion last year alone.
But now, amid pleas for aid after Hurricane Katrina, the Bush administration has launched an unusual effort to raise charitable contributions for another cause: the government’s attempt to rebuild Iraq.
Although more than $30 billion in taxpayer funds have been appropriated for Iraqi reconstruction, the administration earlier this month launched an Internet-based fundraising effort that it says is aimed at giving Americans “a further stake in building a free and prosperous Iraq.”
Contributors have no way of knowing who’s getting the money or precisely where it’s headed, because the government says it must keep the details secret for security reasons.
There’s an old bumper sticker that reads something like, “I’m looking forward to the day when schools are fully funded and the Pentagon needs to have a bake sale to pay its bills.” It looks like that day has come, thanks to the collective fiscal genius of Team BushCo.
So, take your pick. You can donate to help victims of:
Natural Disasters
Katrina
the Asian tsunami
Genocide
Rwandan
American
Sudanese
War
Bad medical luck
Bad economic luck (and here too)
Heart Disease
Cancer
Multiple Sclerosis
Diabetes
Cruelty to animals
or you can donate to BushCo’s Endless War and create more victims in Iraq. Do the patriotic thing.
September 21st, 2005 at 3:01 pm
I’ve thought that anti-war folks should be doing bake sales for body armor for a while now. Still is a good idea.
Bruce Sterling’s _Heavy Weather_ begins with the US military holding a bake sale for equipment but then it’s a science fiction book. It is a science fiction book that is all about global warming but it still is science fiction although, in my recollection, it is becoming more relevant every day. Just like John Brunner’s _Sheep Look Up_.
September 21st, 2005 at 4:06 pm
Hi Gmoke.
I’ve thought that anti-war folks should be doing bake sales for body armor for a while now. Still is a good idea.
Would be good PR. Now if only the people targetted by it could feel shame.
September 21st, 2005 at 8:35 pm
Oh, hell, let’s go whole hog and hand off the entire US military forces to private contractors and charity. I mean, if the market is going to rebuild New Orleans, surely the market is also the best mechanism by which to run an army, right?
September 21st, 2005 at 9:44 pm
Did you see this: http://www.iraqpartnership.org/cb/iraq/learnmore.html
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So, “give us money but we’re not going to tell you who gets it” (e.g. Custer-Battles, Halliburton, crooked interim defense ministers, etc.).
There, doesn’t that make you feel better?
September 22nd, 2005 at 8:18 am
Instead of sponsoring starving children, we can sponsor ill-equipped GIs. Sally Struthers should get in on this.
September 22nd, 2005 at 6:35 pm
Tuba - yes, I did see that part. There’s so much wrong with this plan. I can’t imagine why I haven’t heard about it more in the corporate media. Oh wait, yes I can …
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