Depression Politics

The American government is about to spend 700 billion dollars in the biggest economic bailout since the Great Depression, and all the while President Bush will still not even utter the word, "recession." What's up with that? Perhaps we have moved from recession into depression already during the time our leaders were trying to deny anything was wrong.

Gas prices so high the average person couldn't afford to fill their tanks? Groceries so high we can barely feed our families? Jobs disappearing at the fastest rate in decades? Yeah, what could possibly be wrong.

Now that they have finally woken up and smelled the decaying corpse of what was once the American economy, they've decided to do something about it. I can't help but think this is a purely political attempt by Bush and the Republicans to make him look (I'm trying not to laugh as I type this) like a hero by putting yet another bandaid on a severed artery so close to election time.

Anyone who is dumb enough to applaud this quick fix and say, "Look at what a great job the Republicans did fixing this problem," needs to remember who got us into this huge financial mess in the first place. By all means, vote Republican this election if you can afford ten bucks a gallon for gasoline, you're so rich you don't need a job and you don't care how much your maid spends on groceries for your family. If you're a real, working person, you might want to consider casting a vote for the Democratic candidate.