America, the Bushian Model




New Year’s TV this year stunk!—even worse than last year if that’s possible.

Neither this year or last year did the networks think that the events of the past year were worthy of decent coverage. So what did they do, they ignored them.

No big deal. Don’t they do the same thing with mainstream news items?

Most of us have become innured by the Big Channels failure to cover what’s really happening as long as they cover Brittany and the 19 ads they get paid for….

To be fair, there was an exception. With the exception of an hour from CNN that spent half the time talking about what was wrong and spending all too much time talking about our besotted bedtime Hollywood starlets, and harlots and assorted rich girls with the class of primates. Moreover, they hardly said more than a word about the White House and its flaws which would of course have taken up the entire hour and then some….

The commentator did say in view of all the deaths, Iraq may have been hardly worth the effort. What a dumb remark. Of course, it wasn’t worth it. Wasn’t the loss of 3,000 plus young men and women to big a price to pay for a false war? Do they get any dumber?.

Did we forget that simple little truth: There was no WMD.

There was no reason to go to war with Iraq.

Do we need to engrave that truism everywhere?


And now we’re up to our beloved necks in Afghanistan and Pakistan, two trouble spots we spent too much time blowing off instead of taking seriously.

Why beat around the bush: If Musharaff isn’t murdered within the next couple of months, he will be tossed out in riots that will only grow worse.

What’s wrong with us that we have such limited perception?

With nothing too watch and all the time left for thinking how can one not notice that nearly one-third of the population lives one step removed from poverty while the top 1% controls more than 40% of the nation’s wealth with the top 5% controlling more than 60%; yet, it is just one percent who carries the burden of the War while the other 99% go about their business uninvolved and disconnected.

Truly, we are a nation in disarray and until the rewards and risks are spread evenly, it will be hard to think of equality being the standard in this country. It never really was nor perhaps should it be; but by the same token, the bottom third of the population may have never been this close to slipping over the edge down the bottomless chute.

Stuff to think about as we think we are avoiding our destiny and helping ourselves.

Something to think about when the real cost of this administration comes home to roost.

Right now, we have spent more than $800 billion to promulgate a war and we have nothing to show for it except dead and wounded and the enmity of those we’re trying to help. Our schools are screaming for help; decent paying jobs have evanesced; there are 12 million illegal people on our shores and there is no government policy to deal with them; we are spending hundreds of billions of dollars on a failed Star Wars program that doesn’t work and we give tax breaks to millionaires!

Clearly, the inmates are running the institution as the rest of us buy Chinese poisoned goods to a nation that already owns us…..

Time to wake up, guys.

It’s 2008!.....



Les Aaron
The Committee for Positive Change

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