Cape Karen
Now, it has begun. The great "recovery" effort is being discussed on Capitol Hill. O' joy!
First, because our mule-headed leader won't even consider taking away the tax breaks he promised to the millionaire's and billionaire's in our country, (after all, they are his friends) he will, instead, cut more benefits to the needy. He will also keep trying to re-form social security, so that the elderly and the disabled can suffer more personal hardships.
And secondly, all those millionaire's and billionaire's from the private sector, they won't be stepping up to the plate and saying, "No, no, . . . that's alright, we don't need more tax breaks; the country needs the money more than we do these days, Mr. President." Nooooo! They want their tax shelters to expand, so they can continue indulging in their greedy passion of gathering more "stuff" to have around them.
God forbid that the head of Exxon/Mobile can't buy five more corporate jets, or that the CEO of Shell Oil can't indulge his desire to purchase a new fleet of luxury yachts. 
And, let's not forget our Congressmen and women ~ they are all waiting for their next $400,000 yearly pay raise. (Poor babies, they do need to keep up with the cost of living, after all.) And trust me, the cost of living is going to soar like we've never seen before. Brace yourself now, and start rolling up all those coins you've been stashing everywhere; and, please, don't quit that second job! Some of the price increases are going to be due to the long list of 'residual effects' that involve the damaged oil rigs off the Louisiana coast and the slow-down of shipping along the Mississippi River. Everything from coffee to plastics; grains to automobile parts, come to us through that vulnerable shipping lane.
Oh, but what the hey! Let's just pretend it isn't happening.
Let's play a game called, "Beat Around the Bush."
It's easy!
To win the game, you have to be the last one to know what people are saying, feeling, or are concerned about in this country; and you must be the very last one to know when a disaster is occurring.
Here's how to play:
First, you put your hands over your eyes.
Second, you stop listening to and reading all news reports.
Third, if the American citizens, who happen to pay your salary, become too loud to ignore, just refuse them any funding that would prevent future potential disasters.
Fourth, being a good 'born-again Christian,' pray that bad things won't happen on your watch.
Fifth, when bad things do happen on your watch~ just stay on vacation, put your head under the pillow, put your hands over your ears, close your eyes real, real tight and don't say a word; just depend on your speech writer's to put together a pretty speech for you that you can read to the nation... later.
You win!
Posted by Karen at September 18, 2005 10:26 AM