Feed my sheep
Aug. 11th, 2006 11:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Now that the latest terror threat has been exposed, The Bush administration is getting back to work. We will not add to the noise about the fact that the President was briefed a full three days in advance of the British operation, but will note the odd coincidence that these things always tend to happen when Mr. Bush is on holiday. The only "emergency" that has ever caused him to interrupt a vacation was the dubious emergency case of one Ms. Terry Schaivo, which required more attention than 9/11 or Hurricane Katrina.
Mr. Henry M. Paulson Jr., formerly of Goldman Sachs, is one of Bush's new kids on the block. Assuming the Treasury helm, he has begun poking around the halls of congress, testing the waters for a renewed assault on entitlement programs. In fact, he seems downright eager. Mr. Paulson has described rising health and Social Security spending as "the biggest economic issue facing our country."
I would like to redirect Mr. Paulson's gaze to the giant COW floating in his sea of complacency. For all of the red flags about funding the neocons have flown, they have been able to find more than enough money to have made Social Security and Medicare solvent. They have used it, instead, to send our young men to die in a country that did not attack us and no longer wants our intervention.
I shake my head when they claim the moral high ground, or claim that they are doing God's work. I, for one, have always been guided by these last few words of Jesus, "Do you love me?...Feed my sheep."
Mr. Henry M. Paulson Jr., formerly of Goldman Sachs, is one of Bush's new kids on the block. Assuming the Treasury helm, he has begun poking around the halls of congress, testing the waters for a renewed assault on entitlement programs. In fact, he seems downright eager. Mr. Paulson has described rising health and Social Security spending as "the biggest economic issue facing our country."
I would like to redirect Mr. Paulson's gaze to the giant COW floating in his sea of complacency. For all of the red flags about funding the neocons have flown, they have been able to find more than enough money to have made Social Security and Medicare solvent. They have used it, instead, to send our young men to die in a country that did not attack us and no longer wants our intervention.
I shake my head when they claim the moral high ground, or claim that they are doing God's work. I, for one, have always been guided by these last few words of Jesus, "Do you love me?...Feed my sheep."