A THUNDEROUS NO!

Bush/Cheney's latest plan to sell public lands in order to raise money to help with our various debts has to be the most stupid, asinine, ridiculous, disgusting, childish, irrational suggestion ever. The fact that they would even suggest such a thing reveals their utter contempt for our country and its citizens. Obviously selling public lands would be nothing but a one time fix for our serious inability to live within out means. Once those lands were gone (no doubt to Bush/Cheney's developer friends, if not to China or Japan) they would be gone for good. And we would still be in debut up to our eyeballs. So...why not just sell off some more public land. And then some more. This would be a solution to our obscene national debt. By the time we could sell enough of our land to get out of debt there wouldn't be much left. So then I guess we could start to sell our children as they have to do in Asia. After all, if you don't have any land, why would you need to have children?

Only an evil and and corrupt administration like our current one could come up with such a suggestion. It is part of their idea that everything should be privatized. But remember, land is just another word for the environment. Do you really want our environment to be placed in the hands of private developers? Is that somehow a good idea? If they have their way everything will be privatized: land, air, water, energy, health, transportation, education, you name it. It would never occur to any of these greedy capitalistic creeps that there are things that are just too important to be privatized - like health care, water, air, the environment, and so forth. We have just had a great example of what happens when energy is privatized in California, and the current oil situation is another great example. You simply cannot have an unregulated "free market" economy without sacrificing both workers and the environment. Of course you can placate the masses for a time "with a six pack of beer and a long-legged whore on Saturday night" (someone else's phrase), but when you reach the point when they can no longer even afford that pleasure something has to change. We seem to be approaching such a situation.

This says nothing about all of our other problems: Iraq, Afghanistan, Abramoff, DeLay, Frist, Hastert, Libby, Cheney, Katrina, spying, lying, and the dying or our Republic. Oh, well, there's always "Lost" on Wednesday night, what an apt description of our present condition. Do you think there will ever be a happy episode called "Found." I hope so but my hope is growing dimmer and dimmer with each passing forgotten scandal.