Advocating a Post Bush America

I was surprised that Bush could be doing so well in the Polls for the upcoming American Presidential election. If I were American today, and aspired to one day become the president of a land which holds so much promise, even though it rarely uses this promise for scarcely more than the benefit of 5% of its population (tax cuts for example, military campaigns for another), I guess I would have to think carefully about what I had to do. If I want to become president, I should avoid all patriotic duties, not study or do well in school, never hold a decent job, and simply accept my fate by hoping that my father becomes president first and warms the chair for me. Endorsing double standards in all aspects of life is perhaps the hardest qualification to achieve, and I am convinced that to maintain this so consistently it must take great effort. Actually, if I became president of the USA, the first thing I would do is to add color to the white house – maybe Terra Cotta with white trim. In any case, I have written below a top ten list of reasons I would vote for John Kerry, if I were American, and if I decided to exercise my vote, which I would do since it is such a luxury in the world today and a non-exercised vote is essentially support for Bush – you have to vote him out, otherwise he will stay.

Reasons (the ordering does not imply importance):

10. Iraq
9. Afghanistan
8. America – in addition to all those who suffered in Iraq and Afghanistan through the two invasions, Americans also lost lives, and innocent Americans will pay in terms of retaliation, increased hostility, and a huge tax bill.
7. The largest single budget deficit increase. This expenditure makes any socialist spending dream look like pocket change. In one war alone he has outdone any Soviet over spending on military. American taxpayers will not feel the crunch this year or next, but over the next 20 years, most future presidents, hopefully beginning this fall, 2004, will have to devote most public attention to dealing with a deficit caused by a Republican. What Education and Health care plans? Military spending would have to be decreased by a whopping whole 5% in order to dramatically improve education and health for the masses – the other 98% of the population – you know, the ones left out of all previous Bush policies except when it comes to picking up the tabs and laying down lives – there are some 340 million people in the USA, in spite of the belief by Bush that there are only some 10 million worth including.
6. The poor rich received a tax cut. It must be tough to be in the top 2% of the income earning American population! Without a tax cut they will have to pinch their bundles of 100-dollar bills with more care. Which portion of the population is in high priority when tax spending has increased unlike before? You see, if you cut taxes for the rich, they will have more money to spend and this will create jobs – sort of – they will spend more on bigger imported luxury cars which burn more fuel and this keeps oil suppliers in countries like Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, in the style of life that monarchies have come to expect.
5. John Kerry has a military service record and we know where he was, unfortunately, during the Vietnam War. We also know what he said and did afterwards. Where was Bush then and where did he stand and does he stand now? We also know the answer to these questions, but somehow many want to pretend they don't know what they know we all know about what we know. You know? Ask Rumsfeld and Cheney first.
4. Cheney.
3. Does this recent war mean Rumsfeld, Saddam Hussein and Osama Bin Laden are no longer friends? Is this what friends do to friends? Do friends let friends run their countries/politcal groupings drunk?
2. Did I mention Iraq and Afghanistan? Where to next?
1. He ain’t Bush.