trickling down to 2004

G.W. Bush is on tour, trying to convince the few blue-collar Americans who still have jobs that his insane tax cuts for the wealthy are going to turn the economy around eventually.

They certainly seem to be doing a bang-up job so far, don't you think? Ever-increasing unemployment, in fact the greatest job losses under a single president since Herbert Hoover. Exploding deficits; we have gone from a massive surplus to record deficits in less than four years.

Quixotic warfare against amorphous or imagined enemies, which seems to be stirring up opposition rather than suppressing it. Two quagmires: Afghanistan and Iraq. Our soldiers continue to die in Afghanistan, and they continue to die at a high rate in Iraq. Bush's irrational behavior before the invasion - going against the opinion of our allies, and alienating them - has essentially doomed us to bear the weight of the reconstruction on our own, with little help from other nations save Britain.

Trickle-down economics has been tried, and it failed. It left us with then-record deficits and a recession: neither were remedied until we had a Democratic administration.

It is happening again, setting new records. The American people are opening their eyes, slowly; hopefully enough of us will wake up in time to get rid of this criminally insane administration in November 2004.