I was thinking about what a disaster Bush has been for this country this morning. Things that used to work: FEMA, the EPA, Medicare, the Fed, our justice system, mining safety, our military, to name a few, don't work now. The list goes on and on and the problems are based on two things. Bush's belief that government is bad and human greed. Many of his appointees are in departments that they don't think should even exist! Margaret Spellings, Bush's Sec of Education, is outspoken in her belief that vouchers should replace public schools, even though her own agency has test results showing public schools are as effective as private schools funded by vouchers. A HUD secretary has said he won't give contracts to anyone who didn't support Republicans in the last election. Alberto turned Justice Department into a political wing of the Republican party. Who would have ever thought that John Ashcroft would be held up as a shining example of what an AJ would be? :roll: Retired General (and Bush apologist) Richard Myers' daughter runs ICE. She was such a poor nominee, that Bush couldn't even get her approved by the Republican Congress!
And the Fed has opened our central financial vein to financial bloodsuckers who are about to go bankrupt on Wall Street. We know those guys are either incompetent or crooks, depending on how you want to spin it, yet they are virtually free to draw on our country's financial reserves at will!
It's truly mind boggling and I don't see that anything will get better for years. Bush certainly isn't going to change his ways at this late date. Any laws Congress may make about the Fed have to get through Bush's veto and then his AG has to enforce them. :roll: That's not going to happen. Congress can't bring the troops home from Iraq. That's the Commander In Chief's responsibility. So we'll keep pouring money down the drain there. Very depressing all around.