By Judith Gayle | Political Waves
George Bush the Lesser remains unrepentant for his crimes against the economy and unprosecuted for his crimes against the Constitution. Wall Street bankers smile all the way to the Bahamas to visit their money, celebrating the steady rise of CEO salaries back to pre-2008 levels. The legislature is obsessed now with removing money from the system rather than pumping it up to provide additional stimulus, even though the newest reports indicate that in a nation of over 300 million, only 18,000 jobs were created this month. We have not forgotten that Bush left Obama with unemployment rates at a 14-year high, so it wasn’t much of a stretch to see them rise further. Will Obama have to pay for Bush’s crimes? The jury is out.
With virtual unemployment at 18 percent, rather than the 9.2 percent being announced, I’ll still take Obama’s record on job creation over the grand decline attributed to Bush during his eight-year reign, but we remain in a state of fiscal emergency that has yet to bottom out. Coming to grips with job loss might have taken a different turn had Republicans not obstructed every opportunity to prop up the market.
After two terms of Bush’s fiscal irresponsibility and seven uncontested increases to the debt ceiling, the Pubs have suddenly become purists, damning those who would spend a dime to grow an eventual dollar as demon seed and worse. They will attempt no rescue of this economy.
As Poppy Bush would say, it wouldn’t be prudent at this time, not with a campaign beginning. It seems as though our political system is standing on its head, unable to turn the gyroscope right side up or to stop the onslaught of ridiculous rhetoric. We can’t seem to slow the gush of wealth trickling no farther down than that infamous one percent, and if Washington were any more tone-deaf, we’d have an actual Tea Party rebellion based on taxation without representation. Obama has taken hits from the right as a socialist and is called a wimp by the left, but from what I can tell, he’s a man who still has full confidence in the systems of the US of A. In that, may I say he’s a better person than I.