July 23, 2007


IMPEACH BUSH


IMPEACH CHENEY

OVER 3,000 IMPEACHABLE OFFENSES

I miss Jimmy Breslin's columns since he went into semi-retirement. His passion and his sense of justice are important. In this column he talks about the death of a young soldier. He enlisted at age 17 1/2 and went to war in Iraq. Now he's dead like over 3,000 other Americans in a war that Bush lied us into. Every one of those unnecessary deaths should be an impeachable offense. The column by Jimmy Breslin is at www.commondreams.org:

As I am walking in Rosedale, on these streets sparkling with sun, I remember the places I have been in the cold rain for the deaths of our young in this war. Rosedale now, Washington Heights before, and the South Bronx, and Bay Shore and Hauppauge and too many other places around here.

And in Washington we had this Bush, and it is implausible to have anyone who is this dumb running anything, smirking at his country. He sure doesn’t mind copying those people. On his PBS television show the other night, Bill Moyers said he was amazed at Sara Taylor of the White House staff saying that she didn’t have to talk to a congressional committee because George Bush had ordered her not to. “I took an oath to uphold the president,” she said.

That president had been in charge of a government that kidnapped, tortured, lied, intercepted mail and calls, all in the name of opposing people who are willing to kill themselves right in front of you. You have to get rid of a government like this. Ask anybody in Rosedale, where Le Ron Wilson wanted to live his young life. His grave speaks out that this is an impeachable offense.

A LOOK AT "RICHISTAN"

We've had more than 20 years of trickle down economics and it's abundantly clear that nothing trickles down except misery and inequality. We have a record number of billionaires and millionaires in the United States while the middle class withers away. The attitude of right-wingers is very much like the quote attributed to Marie Antionette about the poor "eating cake." The kind of designed and inexcusable inequality we see now will tear our society apart. This article by Paul Harris is at observer.guardian.co.uk:

America's super-rich have returned to the days of the Roaring Twenties. As the rest of the country struggles to get by, a huge bubble of multi-millionaires lives almost in a parallel world. The rich now live in their own world of private education, private health care and gated mansions. They have their own schools and their own banks. They even travel apart - creating a booming industry of private jets and yachts. Their world now has a name, thanks to a new book by Wall Street Journal reporter Robert Frank which has dubbed it 'Richistan'. There every dream can come true. But for the American Dream itself - which promises everyone can join the elite - the emergence of Richistan is a mixed blessing. 'We in America are heading towards 'developing nation' levels of inequality. We would become like Brazil. What does that say about us? What does that say about America?' Frank said.

In 1985 there were just 13 US billionaires. Now there are more than 1,000. In 2005 the US saw 227,000 new millionaires being created. One survey showed that the wealth of all US millionaires was $30 trillion, more than the GDPs of China, Japan, Brazil, Russia and the EU combined.