WEEKLY WARNING WORDS
January 7, 2004 - WEEK 16 - Free Trader?
BY DR. BRUNO J. KEITH
We watched the lips of George I: "No(new)taxes." We also heard George II pledge in the same mood while also running for the presidency. But now he is taxing future generations by his enormous and irresponsible budget deficits.
George Bush also proclaimed to be an addict to free trade. Didn't we all watch his lips when his two promises made him a minority president? Did he lie to us when he assumed Bill Clinton's free world-wide trade options? World Trade Organization treaties forbid protective tariffs. But our Man owed his hot seat in the White House to manufacturers and business tycoons who bought his office for him with a hundred million dollars and demanded his promised pay-back in the shape of protective tariffs.
He thought that his commanding position in the world allowed him to shoot down the European and Japanese steel producers to make sure of the votes for him by our steel manufacturers, steel merchants and steel workers. That illegal act was in line with his repudiation of the Tokyo Protocol about reducing air and water pollution and exempting himself and his generals from the jurisdiction of the World Court which we forced to punish other high-ranking terrorists.
Forced to submit to defeat in his steel politics, he tells U.S. steelers and their workmen that his violation of international law has already helped them. Now he hopes that his importers of cheaper or better steel don't have to pay inflationary prices because he did circumvent the protective tariffs which the European and Asiatic steelers might have imposed on us. Do two errors of judgment prove sanity, justice and political correctness, or do they smell like lies?
In spite of his impulsive hit-and-run politics, the big profiteers can always rely on George II whom they had in their pockets since his very beginnings in politicking. His handing back trillions to the only ones who can afford to pay taxes, is his bribe in return. They will continue to support George II when he liberates distant nations from their own meanies, to provide his reconstructors with huge funds, collected form poorer tax payers while he assists our own great manufacturers and business leaders to export the last of well-paying jobs off-shore, even into enemy country. More power to them, seems to be the prayer of compassionate Republicans.
He and his military-industrial-business complex have at their disposal courageous armies of warriors to enforce the Bush will. He also finds a few foreign politicians and even some dictators over enemies he can bribe by freely using tax dollars if they pretend to be on his side. Once our people hate to be sacrificed, they may long back to the fleshpot of a more blooming economy under a Clinton and, if possible, a decent financier like Robert Rubin.
Week 17 - Jan 14, 2004 - Nation Building?