The wars that Bush has unleashed on the world have come even as

[CoffeeAnnan]

our economic propects are dimming industry by industry.I think this may well may be the reason for wars occupying a special place in our economic planning.Most of industries,overloaded by debt and years of mismanagement, know that their high flying days are over.The only way they can be profitable in the future is to move to China or India.That life is also going to be short lived as those nations,full of intelligent people, becoming increasingly well educated are going to hand our asses to us on a platter.

The only thing we do well, but at an exorbitant cost is mount wars on
Third World nations.When the Vietnam war went bust, the warmongers among us had to lie dormant until a suitable opportunity arose or was created for them.9/11 the modern day equivalent of a New Pearl Harbor,
Reichstag Fire or Gulf of Tonkin revived war fever and the warmongers have their juices flowing again.The economic opportunity that war fever has generated shows up in the bottom lines of Boeing,Raytheon,Halliburton,etc.This will filter down to communities that have second tier suppliers to the primary war mongers.This is the true supply side economics of the Republican War machine.

This war is going to raise the cost of doing business for the normal American corporations.Their survival, already in doubt from the debt loads, the profligate living of their CEOs and their inability to motivate their own workforces,is going to require them to be put under intensive care

I do not see how our addiction to insane behavior is going to come to an end.

[Deja Q]

1. Mismanagement such as

CEOs giving themselves higher profit chunks

Cooking accounting books

Offshoring to compensate for the weaker power at home, not to mention it costs 50x LESS per offshore employee to do the same work, and the CEO can keep his big salary.

Any exec who gets FIRED gets a severance pay that gives him free and easy retirement. (It amounts to $220k/yr for 50 years... I think it was the PeopleSoft CEO who got fired had a ridiculous severance plan, but this is not uncommon.)

All the problems go back to the upper eschelons of corporate america. Not the workers. Or, even further, I say money is the true root cause.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

2. The bet is that by economically harnessing the markets in Iraq for

ourselves... all will be well. Sometimes the best laid plans of mice and men.....

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=3895528
The Tavis Smiley Show, September 8, 2004 · NPR's Tavis Smiley welcomes Sen. Robert Byrd, a West Virginia Democrat, to the program to discuss his new book, Losing America: Confronting a Reckless and Arrogant Presidency.

Maybe we are being a little too optmistic... maybe just a tad.

[adolfo]

3. Correct definition

Unfortunately, reckless and arrogant defines our current president perfectly.