The Mismanagement of America
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I believe George W. Bush should be impeached for war crimes. I honestly do. He misled the American people and Congress into going into an illegal war that has no end in sight. I think he should have been impeached years ago. But at this point, from a completely level-headed, logical point of view, there are so many more issues than the War in Iraq. I want him impeached for something larger: the mismanagement of the United States of America. To put it simply, he is not doing his job. He isn't leading the country.
I want you to imagine one of the largest, but definitely most profitable corporations in the world. The board nominates a CEO. And within years, the corporation has turned from the most profitable in the world into a spiralling, bleeding shipwreck with no end of loss in sight. Imagine then, that the board continually ignores this bad management. Imagine that the shareholders do nothing about it but watch their bank accounts disappear without voting to fire the CEO.
This metaphor is pretty thinly veiled but it is an accurate one. How does a government have the largest budgetary surplus in an entire generation turn into a spiralling deficit within four years? How does a government allow the largest job rate in a generation turn into the lowest? How does a President have a net loss of jobs for an entire year for consecutive years? Why has George Bush lowered taxes at a time of war? Doesn't that just seem... irresponsible?
Why has George Bush had more non-natural, non-crime related deaths than the four American Presidents before him? And before you answer that, keep in mind that 9/11 had been forewarned on several straight-forwardly worded documents from CIA intelligence that Condoleeza Rice admitted the administration couldn't have been bothered to take seriously. And keep in mind that those Americans dying in Iraq (not to mention Iraqians dying) were sent there based on proven falsified information and false pretenses about ties with 9/11 and weapons of mass destruction that were never found. Keep in mind that Osama Bin Laden is still at large and, apparently, we don't seem to care where he is. And keep in mind despite billions of dollars and a national focus on "Homeland Security", not a single thing was done to help the starving, dehydrating Americans in Lousiana for four days after the hurricane had already done its damage.
This isn't just a bad President. Bush the first was a bad President. Nixon was a bad President. This isn't a bad President, this is a phenomenally incompetent President that has absolutely no comparison. If America was a corporation, our shares wouldn't be worth the paper they were printed on and we would have voted him out years ago, in fear that tomorrow we would have no money.
Yes, there was an election last year, and somehow the American people decided to keep him in office, but at this point, I think that I can safely say that, aside from any allegations of a stolen election, the people who support George Bush are wrong. This isn't about one person's opinion over another. It's not about family values, or God, or about fags, or abortions, or about any of the arguments that are going to differ from person to person. This is about the mismanagement of America. And anyone who believes this country is being managed adequately is wrong. There is no arguing this matter.
If a company's CEO can be fired for mismanagement, why can't the President of the United States? I understand impeachment trials if the President is accused of something illegal (such as things he has done but obviously no one in the Republican-controlled Congress agrees, and why should they raise a ruckus when he has their best interests in mind?) but why isn't there a "firing" process if the President isn't doing his job? There is no debating the bottom line. And the bottom line is the line graphs and charts of the corporation that is our country are so deeply in the red and have been for four and a half consecutive years it's going to be years before we can possibly get out. This would never happen in any other organized institution.
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with love from CRS @ 9:06 PM
Sunday, September 11, 2005
I believe George W. Bush should be impeached for war crimes. I honestly do. He misled the American people and Congress into going into an illegal war that has no end in sight. I think he should have been impeached years ago. But at this point, from a completely level-headed, logical point of view, there are so many more issues than the War in Iraq. I want him impeached for something larger: the mismanagement of the United States of America. To put it simply, he is not doing his job. He isn't leading the country.
I want you to imagine one of the largest, but definitely most profitable corporations in the world. The board nominates a CEO. And within years, the corporation has turned from the most profitable in the world into a spiralling, bleeding shipwreck with no end of loss in sight. Imagine then, that the board continually ignores this bad management. Imagine that the shareholders do nothing about it but watch their bank accounts disappear without voting to fire the CEO.
This metaphor is pretty thinly veiled but it is an accurate one. How does a government have the largest budgetary surplus in an entire generation turn into a spiralling deficit within four years? How does a government allow the largest job rate in a generation turn into the lowest? How does a President have a net loss of jobs for an entire year for consecutive years? Why has George Bush lowered taxes at a time of war? Doesn't that just seem... irresponsible?
Why has George Bush had more non-natural, non-crime related deaths than the four American Presidents before him? And before you answer that, keep in mind that 9/11 had been forewarned on several straight-forwardly worded documents from CIA intelligence that Condoleeza Rice admitted the administration couldn't have been bothered to take seriously. And keep in mind that those Americans dying in Iraq (not to mention Iraqians dying) were sent there based on proven falsified information and false pretenses about ties with 9/11 and weapons of mass destruction that were never found. Keep in mind that Osama Bin Laden is still at large and, apparently, we don't seem to care where he is. And keep in mind despite billions of dollars and a national focus on "Homeland Security", not a single thing was done to help the starving, dehydrating Americans in Lousiana for four days after the hurricane had already done its damage.
This isn't just a bad President. Bush the first was a bad President. Nixon was a bad President. This isn't a bad President, this is a phenomenally incompetent President that has absolutely no comparison. If America was a corporation, our shares wouldn't be worth the paper they were printed on and we would have voted him out years ago, in fear that tomorrow we would have no money.
Yes, there was an election last year, and somehow the American people decided to keep him in office, but at this point, I think that I can safely say that, aside from any allegations of a stolen election, the people who support George Bush are wrong. This isn't about one person's opinion over another. It's not about family values, or God, or about fags, or abortions, or about any of the arguments that are going to differ from person to person. This is about the mismanagement of America. And anyone who believes this country is being managed adequately is wrong. There is no arguing this matter.
If a company's CEO can be fired for mismanagement, why can't the President of the United States? I understand impeachment trials if the President is accused of something illegal (such as things he has done but obviously no one in the Republican-controlled Congress agrees, and why should they raise a ruckus when he has their best interests in mind?) but why isn't there a "firing" process if the President isn't doing his job? There is no debating the bottom line. And the bottom line is the line graphs and charts of the corporation that is our country are so deeply in the red and have been for four and a half consecutive years it's going to be years before we can possibly get out. This would never happen in any other organized institution.
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