Another take on ‘A sad day for America’

I simply would like to take another view from that of Mr. Farrell’s “Sad day.” Yes indeed, the CNMI will do well under George W. Bush. After all, “Ask not what you can do for your country but what your country can do for you!” When you are on the “doll,” of course a big Republican sugar daddy can help out. Just ask Dick Cheney and Halliburton how it works. But by the time the federal deficit runs well above its cap, (I hear GW just might ask to raise the debit ceiling this term,) the CNMI will have to look for another sugar daddy. And when the jobs become scare here, then the CNMI can send its young men and women, their best, into the military to fight another war against terrorism, perhaps North Korea or Iran or even Cuba—you know, the axis of evil empires. Oh, I forgot “Star Wars,” because those evil empires might just send a missile or two down the Pacific. But, of course, the young men and women will need to be high school graduates of the “Leave No Child Behind,” another mandate from the federal government (You know the Republican Party’s keep-government-out-of-our-lives platform?)

But I digress. Let’s see, Roe verses Wade? GW will try to appoint the morally correct judicial positions so that American can have thousands of unwanted children to care for. Perhaps the moral majority can adopt them and provide the loving care these children will need. I truly hope so. Or perhaps the government will actually provide the needed health care and housing and nutritious food these children will need. With 20 million Americans living in poverty right now there is after all a need for a few dollars from the taxes. Oh I forgot—the tax breaks that GW will make permanent for the wealthiest and the biggest of corporations. Hmmm, now how about that deficit?

And about those riots, come on now, not to worry. Remember the Berkeley times when people wanted a park—not a parking lot. Well, no problem, send in the National Guard! They need more work! And anyway most riots will be at airports trying to get through the security network of the Orwellian screens. Your name on a list, the airlines giving out private information, you have a sewing needle in your sewing kit, perhaps you even look suspicious, you know from the Middle East, or you are even a “loud” talking person after waiting for an hour in line and then this big huge guy carrying a pistol comes up to you. It is already happening. Talk about human rights. No wonder there are so many lawyers right now. Anyway there will be plenty of military folks to keep everyone morally correct and morally right. Don’t worry so much!

After all the things GW and his posse will do in these next four years, America will then be in such a sad state of affairs that we will become just another third-rate country. We will be broke, with no Social Security for the young, extremely high medical costs, and the environment will be denuded for its resources.

Just think, we will be too poor to take on the role of the world’s policemen, too broke to fight another war, and so far in debt that we can rest a while, like other countries. Take a back seat and try to clean up the mess GW got us in.

So I say America will get what it deserves—unless we all take a deep breath, stop being angry, and go out and fight the good fight for another day. Bush falsely declared the “war is over” from the deck of that carrier. I think Iraq has proven him wrong every single day so far. I say the war isn’t over and we need to fight one “battle” at a time. At least some of us think it is still a democracy after all. Now let’s go out and make it right for the 2008 election. I refuse to give up so easily. His “political capital” as he calls it is just another false claim. He has nothing to spend and no morally correct mandate to impose upon us.

Phil Plaza
Saipan