8/13

The Wrecking Crew
discovered the deficit 18 months ago.
Odd they never noticed it (at 2 trillion or so)
before they turned it over (like a reeking, steaming turd)
to the new administration,
pretending that they'd never heard
the budget balance in 2000 was firmly in the black.
But a strong & healthy government...
the Crew could not have that!
They promptly lowered taxes,
(though mostly for the wealthy)
then looked around to found more ways to make the state unhealthy.
After 9/11 they launched a couple wars
though there was some confusion over what to fight them for.
They claimed this would stop terrorism, then switched to say we seek
some somehow nonexistent WMB's.
(& all this at a cost of a quarter million casualties
not to mention roughly 2 billion bucks a week).
To minimize the sacrifice the Wreckers thought it funny
to execute the whole fiasco with borrowed Chinese money.
But when barely regulated banks lost big at the casino
we woke up & discovered that somehow between, oh
two and three trillion bucks had somehow disappeared,
& a Brand New Great Depression was quite possible we feared.
Now economists will tell you, in an economic crash
the government should save the day by spending lots of cash.
Bummer that the Wreckers stripped the Treasury to the bone,
so Obama had to hold his nose & take out another loan.
Now the guys who made the mess themselves all act all hot & bothered.
(Like a guy who sets his house on fire & complains about the cost of water)

Anyway election day is nigh.
We can guess how that will be
now that it's Constitutional to buy democracy.
I suppose all us Progressives
need to shake off our malaise
& get our asses into gear
over the next few days.
Remembering how these things go,
we can't work hard enough.
Because the Wrecking Crew
is ready to
pick up where they left off.