Thank God we live in a country in which our leader will cut health care for poor people, aid to farmers and environmental funding to pay for the excesses of the last four years. Okay, I’m just being a jerk. I’ve been reading about President Bush’s budget and I’m not liking what I see. I believe it was the President’s father whom I remember used the phrase voodoo economics, and I think President Bush must have a Jimbo doll and he is pressing pins into it, because I am not feeling comfortable right now.
I was reading in the Business Week online edition that Bush is proposing a five year budget instead of the usual ten year plan and Business Week says there will be huge costs generated by the President’s budget proposal that won’t be realized until 2011 to 2015. In his social security proposals laid out in the State of the Union speech, Bush seemed to be making sure we would provide for the next generation. Most of us boomers had it good when we were growing up, and we have tried to make it even better for our progeny, so that is understandable. But if the goal is to make it better for our kids, how can he justify saddling them with huge budget deficits, that, according to the article in Business Week, will make interest rates higher and the value of the dollar lower? And why is he revealing only the first five years’ effects of his proposal and hiding away the slimy dark underbelly so no one will see it until he is gone.
You know how sometimes you do something and you can’t explain why you did when someone asks you to explain? Do you remember in the movie Forrest Gump that Forrest rescued his girlfriend Jenny from a boyfriend who was hitting her and then she went back to him the next morning? While Forrest was staring him down, he explained that it was that “lyin’ Johnson.” For you younger readers, that was not some vague phallic reference. The Johnson he was talking about was President from 1963 to 1969. Like Bush, he was from Texas and he did some questionable things, but unlike Bush, he did some good. Last night, Jimbo’s girlfriend asked if she had done something to make him mad, because he seemed to be angry at her. I assured her that was not the case and apologized profusely. Then I explained that it was “that lyin’ Bush.”
“There are times in the lives of man,” said W. C. Fields, “that we must take the bull by the tail and face the situation.” This is one of those times. The current administration and congress have squandered our legacy over the past four years and there is nothing we can do about going back in time to try to undo their mess. We had our chance to try to correct our mistakes in November, but the voting public was more interested in bashing gays, making sure we’d all say the same prayer and giving Osama Bin Laden even more of a head start in getting away from us than they were in protecting our fiscal future.
Hang your head in shame, Mr. President. Hang your head in shame.
You are probably saying to yourself right now, “Are you mad Jimbo? Did we do something wrong? Did we do something to make you angry?”
No, it’s not you. I love all of you. It’s that lyin’ Bush.
Because sometimes in Jimbo’s world we just need to let off a little steam.
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