This Week's Expanding Political Ticker...
...luxury goods were up around Christmas Time because of the tax cuts, but everything else, including jobs, remains depressed, as the Republican Scrooge leadership in Congress, prompted by Bush, and during times of epic joblessness, refuses to extend unemployment benefits before disbursing for the holidays, after voting themselves a raise, when the rich are proclaiming the greatness of the productivity revolution and profits amidst a jobless recovery...
...Congress cutting veteran benefits while exhorting the people to "support the troops", while the troops are being forbidden to leave the force, no doubt to have a terrible impact on ongoing recruiting efforts, not to mention dodging the question of how much the war would cost until we were on the ground already and supporting the troops, asserting the whole time that Iraqis would welcome us and it would be a short and inexpensive operation, and insinuating those not "supporting the troops" who opposed the war were traitors, then later exposing a clandestine CIA agent because her husband called your lies on the war...
...all of this while considering even further tax cuts, while wasting billions upon billions in Iraq, while security in the homeland still suffers, while cities and states, mired in desperate economic stakes (exemplified by Arnold Schwarzenegger becoming our governor), are still woefully unprepared for terrorist-launched WMD attacks, and there is a surplus unemployed army of Americans with the will and time to put to the effort of securing the homeland, but instead we're spending the treasury in Iraq on a worthless and impotent dictator and resulting occupation, and assuring that we end up with less soldiers than more, as those currently serving take the first chance they can to get out, and those considering enlisting think twice, as the pool of those looking for jobs grows while the reality of job openings lags behind, and the potential result of the war in Iraq, and the manpower needed to manage our commitments, causes some to speculate on a reinstituted military draft...
(to be continued)
