Buying friends

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Oh now this is just fucking sad. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18956496&ft=1&f=1001

It's like Bush is admitting he's a complete failure. He's trying to buy friends.

Or is he trying to bribe voters for November because otherwise his party doesn't have a snowball's chance in Hell.

OOOOH and an extra 300 per child for breeders. Isn't that nice. Of course, it's a mere $152,000,000,000 in taxes, but WHO CARES! With interest, he's only going to steal $1,000 per person to give you $600 and most of that will be carried by people like me who'll pay closer to $2,000. But if you're working part time at Wal-Mart with no healthcare and you have a half dozen screaming larvae, you'll probably only end up paying back $500 of it or so. WHAT A GREAT GUY.

Oh. An also, here's a person message from the president:

BTW, poor people and fags. FUCK YOU. If you earn less than $3000/yr or you're a 'single' person who make more than 75K/year, you get dick. I make more than 75K/year but my partner made nothing last year. We've been together for 10 years but fuck that. We'll get dick. THANK YOU MISTER PRESIDENT.

So in addition to paying a couple thousand or so in extra taxes for the privilege of letting Bush try to buy friends, he won't even try to bribe me. Isn't that extra special.

Most of my neighbors who're good little breeders will be getting about $3,000 per family. I predict half of them will use it to buy big screen TVs so they can scream even louder at football games. (While I'm on the subject of heterosexuals, did I mention the jackass sitting in his living room last Sunday blowing an airhorn for the fucking super bowl?)

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I don't trust this thing. I mean, yeah, I get some money back. And the other people in my apartment complex, maybe they get more money back for having popped out kids. But this is not going to make much of a dent I don't think. No matter what economic stimulus or relief is proposed, it's never intended to help people like me.

And trusting businesses to get cranking and expand and hire people? Yeah, that's a lot of trust. I don't think it's going to happen.

I love the way they are trying to stave off a recession which might happen. This country's been shafted since 2000, but I guess that wasn't a recession enough. I suspect our economic downturn will only be acknowledged as a recession when a Democrat is in office.

As for "his party doesn't have a snowball's chance in Hell" - I have to disagree with you there. It would be nice if the past 8 years have left such an absolutely foul memory that nobody except a few fanatics will vote Republican, ever again... but I don't trust people. I thought it was painfully obvious how stupid and pathetic this was back in 2004, and you can see how that turned out. Now it's 2008 and they have McCain as a brilliant new champion. I think Americans are going to overwhelmingly vote for him. I hope I'm completely and utterly wrong about that.

I would like to believe that there's a way to be a parent without being a breeder - to just have kids without buying into the whole oversized consumeristic continuum.