The Tao of Spartacus Jones

Bush Crime Family Values

In my ex-hometown, Chicago, it would be fair to say that the city is not without a certain degree of influence from Organized Crime, just as it would be fair to say that Germany in the late 1930's was not without a certain degree of influence from the Nazi Party.

Organized Crime, the Mafia or whatever you'd like to call it, is in the business of fleecing you and me and everyone else. Different territories are controlled by different factions. One group controls the North Side, another the West Side, yet another, the South Side and so on. In general, these factions work in close cooperation because it's better for business. But every once in a while, a dispute may arise over who should get what cut of what swag. Sometimes these disputes may result in bodies found in trunks of cars, or in Lake Michigan.

But no matter how bloody these spats may become, all the factions of The Mob are still fundamentally in the same business together, ie, fleecing you and me. Just because they're shooting at each other, it doesn't mean they're on OUR side.

This is largely the same kind of relationship that exists between the Republican Party and the Democratic Party, too. Most of the time, they work in close cooperation with each other. Every four years or so they'll do some in-fighting over who's going to get what cut of what swag. But fundamentally, they're in the same business together: fleecing you and me. Just because they're shooting at each other, it doesn't mean they're on OUR side.

For those of you trying to figure out why, for example, the Democrats put up John Kerry to run for President, a man whose views are scarcely distinguishable from those of George Bush; or why the Democrats have supported, almost without exception, the worst policies and excesses of the Rabid Republicans; or why the much bally-hoo'ed "filibuster" was more of a "fizzle-a-buster" — this is the answer.

Whatever public "disagreements" these two criminal gangs — I mean political parties — appear to have, it's really just for show. They hope to give you the impression that there's an "opposition" party.
There isn't.

Imagine two criminal gangs trying to rob the same bank at the same time. When the cops show up, each gang tries to distract attention away from itself by pointing the finger at the other crew, hoping that while John Law is pre-occupied with their rivals, they themselves will be able to scoot with the loot. Neither gang wants to get caught and each gang wants the other one to get caught. But neither gang is really interested in keeping the bank from being robbed.

It's just a race to see who gets away with the goods.

Now, as criminal gangs go, you have to take your hat off to the Bush Crime Family.

They make the Corleones and the Sopranos look like a bunch of Quakers.
I call it the "Bush" family only because he's the front man, presumably put in that position to be the focus of our wrath, to take the heat if things go sour. He certainly didn't claw his way to the top by his wits, or charisma.
Let's face it; if somebody has to be assassinated or impeached, it might as well be Dubya. His loss is no loss. If you think that Boy George is running this show, then you think Fredo was the Godfather. Dubya couldn't organize a two-man circle jerk.

Right now, the Bush Crime Family is engaged in what may well be the biggest bust-out in history. For those of you NOT from Chicago — or not fans of The Sopranos — it works like this:
You set up a dummy corporation that looks good on paper and you make an offer to purchase a thriving business. You make the down payment and move into the front office. You now have access to that business's assets. You open up every line of credit you can get, and top out every one of them by purchasing — on credit — easily movable items which you then sell "on the street" at a generous discount. Why not? It's 100% profit.

Just before the creditors come storming the castle with torches, you default on your payment and the business reverts back to the original owners — who are now left holding the bag. And there's nothing in that bag but debts. Your dummy corporation does a Casper the Ghost and your marks have no recourse but bankruptcy.

This is what the Bush Gang is doing to the United States.
To YOU.
Once they took over, they started cutting funds to programs that would benefit YOU, and transferred those funds to places it would benefit THEM. Right now, their cash cow is the Invasion of Iraq, only slightly less preposterous than the attack on that looming threat to world peace and freedom, Grenada.
Billions of dollars have been diverted from social programs, infrastructure, healthcare, education, environmental protection, siphoned off into this fabricated war. But if you think this money is spent on the "troops" that Bushlings are always clamoring for you to support, you're a sap.
It's all disappearing via sweetheart contracts to corporations owned or controlled by Bush Crime Family members.
The squeeze eventually trickles down to you.
The Bush Gang gave themselves and their close associates tremendous tax breaks.

But not YOU.
YOU'RE THE MARK.
It's your tax money that these leeches are getting bloated on.

And when they've sucked you absolutely dry, they'll do a quick fade, having socked their assets safely away in secret accounts elsewhere.
They'll leave you holding the bag.
But it'll be a nice designer bag, emblazoned with the American flag, so maybe that makes all the difference.