Calling GWB: It IS the Economy, Stupid, Jr.

Deja vous.

Imagine George W. Bush as Calvin Coolidge. Now imagine John McCain as Herbert Hoover. Coolidge put the wheels in motion that brought about The Great Depression. Hoover takes office and the economy hits the fan.

It was the same story then as it is now: A Republican Party that embraced the wealthy and powerful who greased their political wheels in exchange for what little wealth of everyone else their was to be taken. In 1929 as now people who’ve invested for retirement or for their children will loose everything while the corporate barons walk away unscathed and wealthier while none of those responsible for their criminal deeds, to include knowingly trading “bad paper”, predatory business practices, concealing evidence of their criminal enterprises and market manipulation, will answer before any court.

The contempt for the average, working American Joe and Jane exhibited then is evident today in everything this administration and its party do. Stocks tumble, fuel prices soar with no discernable ceiling, corn is diverted for fuel as it is more profitable thus making beef, poultry, cereal, milk and every other food more expensive, more and more are unemployed thanks to globalization for cheap foreign labor, wages are stagnant for what jobs remain, health and other benefits are available for but a few, home foreclosures are epidemic, property values are plummeting, the list is endless. And let’s not forget the homeless the vast majority being veterans.

And let us examine one classic example of early “compassionate conservatism” concerning veterans during The Great Depression of which very few are aware: The Bonus March of 1929 when Hoover turned the Army against homeless, hungry, unemployed WWI veterans peacefully protesting for a benefit they desperately needed then when the Coolidge actuaries were banking they’d all be dead when the benefit was due.

Bush and McCain simply act under the radar to under-fund the VA, direct it to misdiagnose and deny benefits and warehouse the wounded under conditions that no prisoner would be subjected while fighting against better benefits for veterans. In my heart of hearts I believe that if the new generation of veterans the Bush Administration created were to march in protest concerning their treatment and the denial of benefits they would receive the same response of arms.

Bush is holding a bloody knife as he vehemently denies attempting the murder of our economy and way of life as they slowly die before us.

The Bush-McCain timing may be off from that of Coolidge-Hoover but history will indeed repeat itself if McCain takes office. The end is only nigh if we don’t remember history and act not to repeat it.

21-50. Out