‘Tom Fox understood the kind of devotion and service to
humanity, particularly to the poor and the oppressed, that wearing the garments
of Christianity required. Bush, a man born of wealth and privilege has no
conception about what it means to labor, to sacrifice and to serve others. He
is all about serving those of his kind—the enemies of peace, the violent
oppressors of the poor and the just. Bush, like his predecessors, is taking
from the poor and giving to the rich; he is fomenting violence and death all
over the world - his actions, his life, cannot be reconciled in any way with
the teachings of Jesus Christ. Bush is an apostle of class elitism, of wealth
and empire, not of god.
Just as when he donned that
flight jacket years ago—a jacket he did not earn the right to wear with honor
by service - Bush dishonored all of those who genuinely earned theirs’.
Similarly, he dishonors true Christians, men like Tom Fox, each time he dons
the mere garments of Christianity and uses them in the service of Satan and
empire building. Tom Fox devoted his life to the service of his god by
intervening on behalf of the oppressed and the traumatized - the victims of
George Bush’s military machine. A man cannot serve two masters.’
The Parasites of
God
More official counterfeit money
From the NY Times
Senate Votes to Raise U.S. Debt Limit to Nearly $9 Trillion
By CARL HULSE
Published: March 16, 2006
WASHINGTON, March 16 — The Senate voted narrowly today to raise the national debt limit to nearly $9 trillion, averting what would have been the first default ever on United States Treasury notes and giving Democrats an opportunity to portray Republicans as reckless with the people's money.
The 52-to-48 vote, with all Democrats and a handful of Republicans voting "no," increased the debt limit by $781 billion. The increase was the fourth since President Bush took office, prompting Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the Democratic minority leader, to declare that "years of Republican mismanagement" have driven the nation deep into the red.
"Any objective analysis of our country's fiscal history would have to conclude this administration and this rubberstamping Republican Congress are the most fiscally irresponsible in the history of our country," Mr. Reid said. "In fact, no other president or Congress even comes close."
Senator Charles E. Grassley, the Iowa Republican who heads the Senate Finance Committee, said before the vote that an increase in the debt limit to $8.97 trillion was essential to preserve "the full faith and credit of the federal government," and that spending for the Iraq war and for antiterrorism measures had helped to push up spending.
But the vote, essential or not, put Republicans in the embarrassing position of calling officially for more debt, and it let Democrats speak out for fiscal restraint. Only three Republican senators, Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, John Ensign of Nevada and Conrad Burns of Montana, voted against raising the debt limit.
Gus: Hot dollars from the Bushist printing presses... the ink still drying in the increasing wind of more deficit...