Question for Bush....Where`s the call for sacrifice?

[democrank]

This has been bugging me for a long time, the fact that Bush never, ever asks Americans to sacrifice. Not a word. Just buy a gas guzzler and go shopping. Sacrifice? Forget about it. Not in my back yard.
Bush prances around the nation like a wealthy CEO spreading the good news to stockholders. Golden opportunities. Vigorous economy. Just an all-round fabulous set of circumstances. We`re on the move, on the march, goin`places.

Perhaps Barb should have spent a little extra parenting time in the empathy department. Maybe then she would have raised a genuine compassionate conservative instead of the shallow bully she offered up to adulthood. All gain, no pain. That`s the George Bush way.

When I look around me here in rural Vermont, I see yellow ribbons as prevalent as outdoor thermometers, people picking up tree limbs for heat along the roadside, women in grocery stores telling their kids they can`t afford the larger jug of juice...I think about sacrifice. I think about limits. Mostly, I think about Bush`s deeply flawed policies. We can not have it all and we shouldn`t. We`re at war in Iraq. The national debt stretches as far as our eyes can see.We`re in an oil squeeze. Bush`s answer? Tax cuts. Go to Disneyland. Have yourself a grand time.

The barren wasteland between Bush`s ears has produced not one single policy, not one "moral value" I`d be proud to support. There isn`t so much as a hint of patriotism in any of it. And sacrifice? We`re too good for that. Let someone else do it. Historians will have a field day with Bush`s golden, me-first bridge to the 21st century.

[EarlG]

1. You should check out

that "Enron: The Smartest Guys In The Room" documentary. While it never makes an explicit connection, it definitely left me with the real impression that Bush and Co. are running the country in the exact same way that Ken Lay and Co. ran Enron.

And we all know what happened to Enron. :scared:

[livetohike]

2. Nice rant democrank

Very well said :-).

The word conservation (as in energy) doesn't exist in Bush-world. Forget about sacrifice. He doesn't even know what it is. Raised in privilege and never had to work for anything in his life.

[impeachthescoundrel]

3. In my opinion

Barbara should have swallowed.

[phantom power]

4. The GOP's entire party platform has become a

"something for nothing" scheme. We can all have tax cuts, deregulation, smaller government, and still keep our quality of life. Apparently, Americans have fallen out of practice at associating cause with effect, because the GOP snake-oil has been flying off the shelves.

We like to think of ourselves as pragmatic and skeptical, but our voting habits bely our self-image. If actions speak louder than words, we apparently want to be fed a happy fantasy instead of facing unpleasant realities.

[GOPBasher]

5. No sacrifice needed!!!

We can keep cutting taxes for billionaires and simultaneously spend hundreds of billions of dollars in Iraq; and we don't need to sacrifice anything! Don't you know? We can just pass the bill on to future generations ... with interest. :banghead:

[iconoclastNYC]

6. Springer was ranting about this today. N/T

[democrank]

7. Wish I had heard him.

Been having trouble getting AAR for a couple months. Miss it.

[iconoclastNYC]

8. Online archives sans commericals....

For your listening pleasure...

http://www.airamericaplace.com/archive.php?mode=show&id=16

[ZootSuitGringo]

9. We are sacrificing BIG TIME as a country by having

Bush represent us as President. That's a lot to have to burden, and I'm feeling more and more sorry for us, with each passing day!

[applegrove]

10. What? And stop 'consumers' from keeping the markets going and

so allowing the uber-rich to divest? That would take leadership!!