Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Yankee Philosophy: Truth is Anything that Profits Me

Iraq was building weapons of mass destruction on orders from a tyrant hardly a democracy. Overthrowing this regime we were doing them a favor at minimal cost to us.
A thin majority of Americans bought that fable being altruistic. Sacrificing Iraqi lives for the greater good made much sense to non-Iraqis.
Now we insist they must pay for the rebuilding of the infrastructure we destroyed.
The Muslims are a frivolous and wasteful people. Our oil companies do them a favor controlling their oil resources.
The lack of financial oversight built a mountain of bad debts weakening the dollar. Seeing this, speculators dumped dollars for Euros and for oil.
The price of oil hit $113 today.
Have the Republicans shortened your life? Nearly a year ago they filibustered to prevent reform of Medicare payments for drugs. The cost of life-saving drugs has shot through the roof. Co-payment requirements are up even more.
Foreclosures are up 57% screams the headline over March of last year. Before you sell your house, remember that the overall foreclosure rate remains under 2% annually.
The IRS had its annual crackdown on deadbeats. The IRS spent $86 millions to collect $49 millions.

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