The Conservatard

In a frightening example of how many problems have been ignored by the Bushtard administration, a new Shanty Town has formed in Miami. MSNBC has an article called Homeless, but not without a home, in Miami which covers this town of homeless people that have gathered together in a vacant lot in Miami.

MIAMI - In the shadows of gleaming million-dollar condos, some 5,000 homeless people live in Miami.

And since October, some live here homeless, but not without four walls.

It started as a few tents, then, a protest of not enough affordable housing. Now, 44 people live here, and there’s a waiting list.

“People know you’re homeless, they won’t give you a place to live,” says resident John Baker. “You’re looking at somebody like, I got $600 in my hand, your monthly rent is only $450, and I just want to get out of the rain. It makes you mad on one level, but on the other level you’re just like, all right.”

Half the people here have full-time jobs. Still, finding a decent place to live is difficult.

“It’s so expensive,” says one woman. “That’s the problem.”

But as the village grew, the city tried to shut it down. Until Commissioner Michelle Spence-Jones, who represents this area, paid a visit. She changed her mind, started trash collection, found some people jobs and found 13 people permanent housing.

“We have a three-bedroom unit that’s boarded up. Why is it boarded up?” Spence-Jones asks. “Let’s rehab it and get the family in there!”

Now the city is working on getting them a mailbox. But homeless advocate Max Rameau worries it’s not enough.

“There’s way too much gentrification and not enough low-income housing,” Rameau says — a housing crunch that many booming cities nationwide face.

By Michelle Kosinski, Correspondent, NBC News

With a known 300 Billion dollars spent on the illegal Iraqi War, and and estimated 1.2 trillion dollars of economic cost to the US economy, homless shanty towns are not suprising at all. The Bushtard cabal could care less about the poor of this or any other country. Frankly Mr. C is surprised that the federal government hasn’t tried to send in federal troops to shut down the shanty town like the local Miami government attempted.

On the other hand, perhaps this is the Bushtard vision of the American future. From their actions you can tell that they want a small group of ultra wealthy individuals controlling and owning 99% of the wealth and the “law” of the land. Those individuals that are smart, yet compliant to the ultra rich, would be able to enjoy a small but weak middle class. The physically strongest and and most sociopaths would be able to get out of extreme poverty by being allowed to join the military and fight the global resource wars for the elite class. And finally the dregs of society, those preforming low skill labor, and service jobs would be able to enjoy the new American shanty towns.

According to King George, he speaks directly to God himself. However, it must be a different god than the one in the New Testament. Mr. C doesn’t remember Jesus telling his followers to start unprovoked wars against other countries. He doesn’t recall the part where it is the obligation of every true believer to ignore the poor and the sick. The parts where Jesus said to lie, cheat and steal from the masses in order to enrich a few must have been left out of the Bible. According to King George, God wants global and class warfare and for the rich to get richer.

No thanks George, you can keep your God, I’ll take the one written about in the Bible.

Did you think the cold war ended when the Soviets took down the Berlin wall? Think again! According to the Wall Street Journal the Chinese successfully shot down one of their aging weather satellites earlier this month.

 

China successfully carried out its first test of an antisatellite weapon last week, signaling its resolve to play a major role in military space activities and bringing expressions of concern from Washington and other capitals, the Bush administration said yesterday.

Only two nations — the Soviet Union and the United States — have previously destroyed spacecraft in antisatellite tests, most recently the United States in the mid-1980s.

Arms control experts called the test, in which the weapon destroyed an aging Chinese weather satellite, a troubling development that could foreshadow an antisatellite arms race. Alternatively, however, some experts speculated that it could precede a diplomatic effort by China to prod the Bush administration into negotiations on a weapons ban.

White House officials said the United States and other nations, which they did not identify, had “expressed our concern regarding this action to the Chinese.” Despite its protest, the Bush administration has long resisted a global treaty banning such tests because it says it needs freedom of action in space.

By WILLIAM J. BROAD and DAVID E. SANGER

Mr. Conservatard has heard a rumor that the Bush administration is quite worried about the actions of the Chinese government. They have already started to refer to the Chinese space defense program as the Anti Satellite System Global Armament Project, or A.S.S.G.A.P. for short. Speaking of asses, Bush’s hard-line stance on space weapons systems is the reason, most military analysts believe, why the Chinese demonstrated that they have the ability to destroy satellites just like the US and Russia.

After reading this story Mr. C’s imagination got the best of him. He sees it all now. The President sitting in the situation room deep beneath the White House surrounded by his senior cabinet members, the joint chiefs, and various neo-conservative advisers. Tricky Dick Cheney will be sitting in the corner quietly mumbling and squawking like the Penguin into a phone directly connected to the largest military contractors. Everybody will be shouting and trying to intimidate each other into submission.

Finally after what seems like days the “great decider” himself will stand up and demand order. He will tell the attendees that he is a simple, God fearing man and wants a simple answer to a complicated question.

That moment is when the choir of neo-conservative angels, generals, contractors, and the VP all sing in unison…

“Mr. President… we can not allow an A.S.S.G.A.P. to occur! Therefore we must invade China at once! It won’t cost the American tax payer anything and the Chinese people will greet us with flowers for saving from communism.”

As anybody that has been following the news knows, president Bushtard and the Neo-Conservatards are planning to surge Iraq with 20,000 new troops. Instead of following the wishes of the American public by using diplomacy to help settle the mess that Iraq, president Bushtard is moving in exactly the opposite direction. It seems the conservatard in chief is more concerned with his “reputation” as a world class jerk than the safety and security of the nation that he is supposedly working for.

As the “news” media and the newly elected democratic congress debate whether to fund the “surge” of additional troops into Iraq, nobody is pointing out the obvious. Nobody is pointing out the obvious fact that the entire Iraq debacle was illegal from the start. Few people will publicly state the truth that the war in Iraq is and was a war of aggression, created by power hungry multinational corporations in order to secure another country’s oil reserves. The mess that president Bustard and emperor Cheney have created in Iraq is entirely their fault. Some politicians can perhaps be excused because they were lied to by the president and their lapdog administrators, but frankly anybody with half of a brain could see thru the thinly veiled lies that the administration used to invade Iraq.

Now that the conservatard in chief has been politically backed into a corner of his own choosing, he is betting the ranch on escalation instead of negotiation. Logic has never been Bush’s nor the administration’s strong point. So now that Bush is raising the stakes, despite the fact that he is holding a bad hand, what is America to do?

Well for Mr. Conservatard to answer this he has to eat a little crow and change his opinion. A while ago Mr C. wrote an opinion that it was a waste of time to Impeach Bush. Mr. C. said that just after the November 7^th, 2006 elections. At the time Mr. C. was thinking that president Bush would be somewhat smart and try to implement some of the Baker/ Hamilton Iraq war study findings. Well it seems that the president is indeed a dyed in the wool conservatard and doesn’t know a good thing when it smacks him in the face. Perhaps the conservatard in chief resents his old man sending in family clean up man, Baker, and is too stupid and stubborn to change. What ever his ill thought out reasons are, the American public is f*&%ed!

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