[Rhodes22-list] Politics

[stan]

sorry - I can't resist

As usual both sides score points but I am old enough to remember that when
Clinton did his military thing the republicans were screaming for his head
for trying to help the oppressed Muslims, even though he did not lose
American lives in the process.  Imagine if this were Clinton's war - they
would have hired a hit squad to stop him.  This time it's a republican
trying to help Muslims and it is the second coming.

I would not pick on Geraldo for trying to tell us some good news - while he
is more liberal than his Foxy brothers he does eat at the pleasure of those
network divisions of the Murdock/General Electric giants.   I would,
however, pick on our media mouthpieces for not picking on leaders who plowed
us into a venture where the facts have proven these strategist failed their
pre-attack homework.   It may be comforting to cry over the dead but it is
sickening to see the thousands upon thousands who come back to us breathing
but leaving so many of their good parts over there.  As has been posted on
these pages, face the facts. It is easy to be satisfied with this just cause
when fighting the computer wars.  But would it still be a just cause if you
knew you were going to be among those thousands of irreversibly altered
returning bodies - or would you too be switching to, hell no, we won't go.
If you think this cause worth gambling even part of you and willing to put
up and follow a wild ersatz Texas cowboy, I respect you and will shut up.
But I won't be in back of you for this one.

As long as the economy was put on the electronic table I assume by now you
all know that the tax cuts were not tax cuts but simply redistribution of
wealth.  The savings of my guys has long since been more than eaten up by
non-progressive increases in gas prices, sales taxes, state income taxes,
real estate taxes, tuition increases (which is really the longest lasting
and most detrimental to the health of this country - read Brokaws The
Greatest Generation, tax increases) and endless food and commodity price
increases.  We have raised the price of a Rhodes one thousand dollars and
that still does not make up for the increases in steel, and resin and
aluminum and plywood - even with our throwing our two social security checks
into the pot. I think those who were having difficulty connecting the dots
to our leader's vision of our future, are beginning to see the picture. One
of my nightmare visions are the fathers of a balanced budget taking the
national debt to infinity:  Foreigners pulling out of bonds, interest rates
skyrocketing, the housing starts plummeting and worse, the record number of
credit card carrying Americans suddenly having a monthly interest burden
that will burry them - if they could afford a funeral.  As one pundit put
it, Bush had campaigned to bring us together and he is finally succeeding.
I think we already have enough Slims out there to put him out to pasture.

stan/gbi




----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve" <rhodes2282 at yahoo.com>
To: "The Rhodes 22 mail list" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 9:01 PM
Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Politics Geraldo Rivera reports


> Interesting Ed.
> I have always thought that Fox was well balanced for
> new.  ABC, CBS & NBC are all liberal networks.  Or at
> least, I think so.  I also think we are doing a good
> job over there.  In the good old days, helping poor
> abused people to achive freedom was a liberal cause.
> But Clinton did not think to help those people so now
> the dems. have to opose it.  At least we are helping
> them.  That whats important.
> Steve
>
>