Political Cortex: Brain Food for the Body Politic

Not only is the U.S. spending spree plunging us into economic disaster, but also in some quarters the Iraq War is considered a giant-sized crime against humanity.  International law prohibits any nation from going to war against any nation that does not pose an imminent threat of danger.

It is as simple as that.  The idea that a nation can rush into a war because of a belief that someday there may be a danger stemming from a country they want to wage war against is irrational and dangerous.

Politicians like Kay Bailey (Baloney) Hutchison are either ignorant or so anxious to hold on to power at any price that they represent a direct threat to good government.

In the 1940's and 1950's the U.S. auto industry was our number one economic winner.  In 2006 both General Motors and Ford are losing money by the billions.   Thousands upon thousands are losing their jobs.  Is that economic progress, Kay?

The Free Trade Agreement has led to that notorious word "outsourcing."  But "outsourcing" represents "heaven" to some U.S. manufacturers.  Certain big business CEO's hold loyalty not to the U.S. laborer, but to the bottom line of corporate profit and loss statistics.  

Their entire loyalty is to the big bucks their corporations can accumulate sending jobs over to India or China.   To hell with the U.S. laborer if big U.S. corporations can make more money.

Let the U.S. taxpayer pay for the hospital bills of illegal aliens as well as education for their children.

Kay Bailey Hutchison never once mentioned the skyrocketing death toll in Iraq or who is going to pay for this wild Republican spending spree.

Remember, Kay, the Republicans came into power with a surplus.  Quickly they rushed into the Iraq War.  The Iraq War hastily morphed into a war against terrorists, when the original reason were those "weapons of mass destruction," a warning that proved to be a fake.

Now we are killing people to deliver democracy and fight terrorists.  The chicken hawk brigade keeps boasting about what a great job we are doing.  They want your vote to finish the job, to stay the course, as Bush has declared repeatedly.

The real Iraq War story relates to the Johns Hopkins estimate of some 655,000 Iraqi civilians dead along with an Iraqi infrastructure that has been demolished as well as 2,813 U.S. service personnel dead and over 17,000 injured.

What in the name of God can the Republicans boast about with a track record like that?

Congressional corruption was pervasive.  Some resigned, some went to jail, and the Republican in charge of protecting the nation's youth from sex predators is now in rehab, an exposed predator himself.

Outsourcing is a dream deal for U.S. business vultures.  They can rush to obtain cheap labor in convenient nations with no labor rights, no overtime, no health insurance, no disability, and all those other bothersome demands of labor unions.

While it was true at one point in time that U.S. labor unions had helped create a U.S. lifestyle standard of living that was once the envy of the world, all that is history now.

With 100 million more U.S. citizens in 2006, ranking us as the fastest growing nation, behind only India and China, the U.S. can boast a huge labor pool.

It is a known fact that illegal aliens often work in the garment industry and the construction trade for 50 percent less than U.S. trade labor unionists.  Billionaires have been generated by low labor costs.

That is heaven indeed for big business in the U.S.A.  If illegal alien labor becomes unavailable because their lower wages put them in extremely high demand there is always outsourcing with slave labor wages.

This is even better for bottom line profits.  Some call this scenario replacement of old fashioned colonialism.  The Republicans' lowering of taxes on these millionaires and billionaires is just the icing on the cake.

As George W. Bush insists, these tax cuts will drip down to the lower classes, producing stock market record earnings.  How sweet it is!