The Biggest Federal Spending Spree of All Time.
The United States Treasury will be renamed. Henceforth it will be known by insiders as the RMPHP, The Rich Man's Personal Honey Pot.

The Republicans seem to get mileage out the hackneyed notion that Democrats' modus operandi is a simple tax and spend philosophy. Fortunately nobody remembers to check the records of how much pork barrel spending goes on during Republican administrations. And so far we haven't seen any close look at the Republican model of targeted tax cuts and even higher levels of spending. During the first year of the current Republican administration look at what Bush jr. has accomplished. The spending spree is just beginning. Never mind the 4 trillion in tax roll backs and who that will ultimately benefit. Those are hypothetical dollars. Promise them anything and then smash the Medicare and Social Security piggy bank. Education? $23 Billion for edumacation. Somehow Bush came up with enough places to sink $23 Billion so that two important objectives could be met. Number one, no improvement in education. Number two fair and equal distribution of pork to Democrats and Republicans. He's warming us up to 43 Billion for military spending after telling us America has never been stronger in his state of the union pep rally. Is this guy cool or what? 80% are eating it up.

June, 2002.
Update on the biggest federal spending spree of all time. We had intended to try our best to keep track of all the money thrown out the window by those Bush guys. But it has turned into a bipartisan money burning frenzy. Dollops of 40 billion here, and 50 billion there, and 35 billion somewhere else have been passed out with such furious rapidity that nobody could keep count of it. You just have to close your eyes and hope it stops sometime soon. One notable expenditure which will eventually register on the minds of small farmers as they file for bankruptcy is the Farm Bill, price tag 200 billion. Bush promised to do something for them. He must have got his prepositions mixed up again. This bill will do something to them. It will hit them hard. It gives the largest farm corporations plenty of money to buy them out or run them out of business. At least they won't have to worry about their next crop any more. Oh yes, and let's not forget that mild mannered compassionate conservative, Colin Powell. He hopped on a plane and flew down to Africa with a puny $200 million. That's only one percent of what experts had estimated would have scratched the surface of the AIDS epidemic, $20 billion. President Bush probably figured it would be wiser to use the $20 billion on his education prevention bill. Hmm what would 200 million buy? A hospital? A couple of clinics? Pay offs to get the African newsmedia to stop whining about the AIDS epidemic? Looks like it worked. You haven't heard a peep out of them since.

What a marvelous gullibility test! A Republican who is troubled by the legions of poor and prospectless but believes that what the government should offer them is self-reliance, and a sermon about premarital sex. He proposes to add $300 million to the budget to, somehow, push unwed mothers into marriage.
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Is this guy the greatest president ever or what? That's how the history books are going to write it up. And he will definitely be "re-elected." There can be zero doubt about that. There's no more effective way to whitewash the nasty business that happened the first time around.

What's next? The Star Wars Shell Game? Price tag ostensibly, $300 to $600 Billion. Give or take a trillion. How does it work? Mostly by not working. Six Star Wars plans need to be developed at $25 to $50 Billion each we are told. But only one will get the final go ahead. Will it be door number four or ... you get the idea.

What's Vee Jay's take?

This supposedly was reported by The Washington Times, and not by The Washington Post, as you might have suspected. This Fall, as Enron was going down, Chairman Ken Lay was desperately trying to raise cash. In a meeting with top bankers, Lay presented a list of all the collateral they had for a new loan. There were pipelines, contracts, receivables, a half-built plant in India -- quite a list. But the bankers told him it wasn't enough. "Isn't there ANYTHING else you own which is fully paid for, that you can put up? And no one has seen Dick Cheney since.

What an industrious young man. Bush jr. is busy insuring us all a more costly future. But, hey. Why worry? Be happy. We told you so. We told you so. We told you so. We told you so. We told you so.

Why does Bush have that smirk on his face?
Mike can tell you. Read Mike's Message. He covers the whole Enron thing in meticulous detail.

Update on the biggest federal spending spree of all time.

'Joke' of the day: I saw Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld in a bar last night; I asked, 'What'cha' doin'?' Dick said, 'We're planning to take all the oil from Iraq.' I was nonplused, but asked, 'How?' Dub-ya said, 'We're gonna' kill 14 million Iraqis and a bicycle repair man.' 'What's with the bicycle repair man?' Don chucked Dub-ya in the arm and said, 'I told ya no one would care about 14 million Iraqis