Bush's Resignation Speech

BUSH'S RESIGNATION SPEECH


The following 'speech' was written recently by an ordinary Maine-iac [a resident of the People's Republic of Maine]. While satirical in nature, all satire must have a basis in fact to be effective.
This is an excellent piece by a person who does not write for a living.


The speech George W. Bush might give:

Normally, I start these things out by saying 'My Fellow Americans.' Not doing it this time.
If the polls are any indication, I don't know who more than half of you are anymore.
I do know something terrible has happened, and that you're really not fellow Americans any longer.

I'll cut right to the chase here: I quit. Now before anyone gets all in a lather about me quitting to avoid impeachment, or to avoid prosecution or something, let me assure you:
There's been no breaking of laws or impeachable offenses in this office.

The reason I'm quitting is simple. I'm fed up with you people.
I'm fed up because you have no understanding of what's really going on in the world.
Or of what's going on in this once-great nation of ours.
And the majority of you are too damned lazy to do your homework and figure it out.

Let's start local. You've been sold a bill of goods by politicians and the news media.

Meanwhile, all you can do is whine about gas prices, and most of you are too damn stupid to realize that gas prices are high because there's increased demand in other parts of the world, and because a small handful of noisy idiots are more worried about polar bears and beachfront property than your economic security.

We face real threats in the world. Don't give me this 'blood for oil' thing. If I were trading blood for oil I would've already seized Iraq 's oil fields and let the rest of the country go to hell. And don't give me this 'Bush Lied...People Died' crap either. If I were the liar you morons take me for, I could've easily had chemical weapons planted in Iraq so they could be 'discovered.' Instead, I owned up to the fact that the intelligence was faulty.

Let me remind you that the rest of the world thought Saddam had the goods, same as me. Let me also remind you that regime change in Iraq was official US policy before I came into office.
Some guy named ' Clinton ' established that policy. Bet you didn't know that, did you?

Now some of you morons want to be led by a junior senator with no understanding of foreign policy or economics, and this nitwit says we should attack Pakistan , a nuclear ally. And then he wants to go to Iran and make peace with a terrorist who says he's going to destroy us. While he's doing that, he wants to give Iraq to al Qaeda, Afghanistan to the Taliban, Israel to the Palestinians, and your money to the IRS so the government can give welfare to illegal aliens, who he will make into citizens, so they can vote to re-elect him. He also thinks it's okay for Iran to have nuclear weapons, and we should stop our foreign aid to Israel. Did you sleep through high school?

You idiots need to understand that we face a unique enemy. Back during the cold war, there were two major competing political and economic models squaring off. We won that war, but we did so because fundamentally, the Communists wanted to survive, just as we do. We were simply able to out spend and out-tech them.

That's not the case this time. The soldiers of our new enemy don't care if they survive. In fact, they want to die.
That'd be fine, as long as they weren't also committed to taking as many of you with them as they can.
But they are.. They want to kill you, and the bastards are all over the globe.

You should be grateful that they haven't gotten any more of us here in the United States since September 11. But you're not. That's because you've got no idea how hard a small number of intelligence, military, law enforcement, and homeland security people have worked to make sure of that. When this whole mess started, I warned you that this would be a long and difficult fight. I'm disappointed how many of you people think a long and difficult fight amounts to a single season of 'Survivor.'

Instead, you've grown impatient. You're incapable of seeing things through the long lens of history, the way our enemies do. You think that wars should last a few months, a few years, tops.

Making matters worse, you actively support those who help the enemy.
Every time you buy the New York Times, every time you send a donation to a cut-and-run Democrat's political campaign, well, dang it, you might just as well Fed Ex a grenade launcher to a Jihadist. It amounts to the same thing.

In this day and age, it's easy enough to find the truth. It's all over the Internet. It just isn't on the pages of the New York Times, USA Today, or on NBC News. But even if it were, I doubt you'd be any smarter.
Most of you would rather watch American Idol or Dancing with Stars. ---I want to add an Amen here.

I could say more about your expectations that the government will always be there to bail you out,
even if you're too stupid to leave a city that's below ow sea level and has a hurricane approaching.

I could say more about your insane belief that government, not your own wallet, is where the money comes from.
But I've come to the conclusion that were I to do so, it would sail right over your heads.

So I quit. I'm going back to Crawford. I've got an energy-efficient house down there (Al Gore could only dream) and the capability to be fully self-sufficient for years. No one ever heard of Crawford before I got elected, and as soon as I'm done here pretty much no one will ever hear of it again.
Maybe I'll be lucky enough to die of old age before the last pillars of America fall.

Oh, and by the way, Cheney's quitting too. That means Pelosi is your new President. You asked for it.
Watch what she does carefully, because I still have a glimmer of hope that there are just enough of you remaining who are smart enough to turn this thing around in 2008.

So that's it. God bless what's left of America.

Some of you know what I mean. The rest of you, kiss off.

PS - You might want to start learning Farsi, and buy a Koran.
 
Here is a funny thought. If Bush resigned the VP would take office. Then if he resigned Condi Rice would become president. Then she would not only be the first woman president but the first black one. Wouldn't that piss off Obamma? :)

Jim N
 
Here is a funny thought. If Bush resigned the VP would take office. Then if he resigned Condi Rice would become president. Then she would not only be the first woman president but the first black one. Wouldn't that piss off Obamma? :)

Jim N

Nope, in order - VP (Cheney), Speaker (Pelosi), President Pro Tempore (Byrd) and then
Secretary of State (Rice).

As for the speech itself - so full of flaws I don't even know where to start...

Ian
 

Terry Oxandale

Skinny Man
(Flame suit on). Bush is no more or less responsible for the last 8 years of poor judgment, assaults on the constitution, and politicization of science than the half of <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com
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Chris Duncan

Supporter
BUSH'S RESIGNATION SPEECH

So that's it. God bless what's left of America.

Not much left after 8 years of bush boy ruin.

Worst president EVER by a number of measures. Broke all kinds of records.

But let's not let that bother your cut and paste effort there Chris, just one thing you put it in the wrong place, it should have been on the jokes thread.

If we weren't laughing we'd all be crying.
 
There are some 500 additional govt officials that are involved in running our country. You want to say it is the fault of 1 man? The president does not make the financial policies. The democratic house and senate does. Since they have controled those for the last two years the country has not done so well. The latest financial crisis brought on by defaults of loans was brought on by the democrats by demanding lower qualifications for loans on homes.
The deficit is brought on by the war but would not been half as bad had the military not been raped of its financial recources for the maintenance and upkeep of the equipment they need. All of that had to be rebuilt and of course at a cost much higher than it would have been over 8 prior years.

Jim
 

Terry Oxandale

Skinny Man
The latest financial crisis brought on by defaults of loans was brought on by the democrats by demanding lower qualifications for loans on homes.

I hate getting involved in discussions like this because most people only want to see the one side of the story that supports their bias (and no amount of factual data will change their assessment). May I also add to the above quote the extensive reduction of oversight and regulation that had nothing to do with congress as well?
 

Chris Duncan

Supporter
There are some 500 additional govt officials that are involved in running our country. You want to say it is the fault of 1 man? The president does not make the financial policies. The democratic house and senate does. Since they have controled those for the last two years the country has not done so well. The latest financial crisis brought on by defaults of loans was brought on by the democrats by demanding lower qualifications for loans on homes.
The deficit is brought on by the war but would not been half as bad had the military not been raped of its financial recources for the maintenance and upkeep of the equipment they need. All of that had to be rebuilt and of course at a cost much higher than it would have been over 8 prior years.

Jim

the de-regulation of the banks happened under a repug congress led by Phil Gramm, the attempt to re-regulate that you mention happened under a repug congress. Why did they fail?

Once the dems got control on '06 the repugs blocked everything of substance with a new record number of vetoes, the most vetoes in 2 years in this countries history.

The deficit was created by going into a war AND giving tax breaks to the rich. Never before have we gone to war and given tax cuts to the rich at the same time. The bush boy, of by and for the rich... YouTube - George W Bush - The Elite My Base

Not to mention huge amounts of money were wasted in this "war" like privatizing the feeding of the military at ripoff prices through the Cheney connected Halliburton. No bid contracts racks up the price in a hurry.

the DOD is a black hole that tax money goes down. On Sept 10th 2001 (does this date ring a bell?) Rumsfeld said "According to some estimates we cannot track $2.3 trillion in transactions," . In other words they are cooking the books, just like Enron et al.

To pretend that this countries financial problems only happened in the last 2 years is a very uneducated position to take. You need to do some more reading. This financial crisis was intentional and has been in the making for at least 5 years.
 

Pete McCluskey.

Lifetime Supporter
To pretend that this countries financial problems only happened in the last 2 years is a very uneducated position to take. You need to do some more reading. This financial crisis was intentional and has been in the making for at least 5 years.

Jeez I wish I'd known that Kalun, I would have got very rich short selling my stock instead of doing my arse. I guess I'm uneducated also.:cry:
 

Chris Duncan

Supporter
Jeez I wish I'd known that Kalun, I would have got very rich short selling my stock instead of doing my arse. I guess I'm uneducated also.:cry:

I'm not trying to step on toes Pete, uneducated doesn't mean unintelligent. It just means you've never been exposed to the information.

If you read the history of the market crash before the great depression many think it was intentional also. And this time around there was the "plunge protection team", insiders that have been propping up this market for 4 or 5 years. Building a bubble that had to fail at some point. Overvalue always corrects sooner or later.

Just about a year ago there was a big national drive, not sure who was behind it. They were going around to companies and trying to coerce employees to join 401K's. They enrolled us automatically, we had to sign papers just to opt out. Someone knew it would be crashing and was trying to round up suckers just before.

The biggest fraud of all is the Federal Reserve, it's neither federal nor reserve, it's a private bank consortium running (bilking) US finances.

"Police State Road Map" is a long read (100 pgs) but it explains a lot. Don't go there if you value the bliss of ignorance, it's not pretty.

They really do want a one world government, the EU was just the start. The NAU is next, Bush has already attended 2 meetings. But you won't ever hear about it on the corporate news.

For a NAU to ever fly they have to bring the US down to a level near to Mexico otherwise the prols won't ever go for it. Hence this economic crash.
 

Pete McCluskey.

Lifetime Supporter
Kalun I'm not a great conspiracy theorist, but I'll read all hundred pages and give my opinion, I'm sure someone will chime in with a counter point I can also read so I can have a complete education.
BTW I have no doubt the market was way over-heated and I have been saying that for some time. I sold a large part of my share portfolio about six weeks before the stuff hit the fan, no great knowledge though; I needed the money to buy a property I had been after for some time.
Don't tell my broker, he now thinks I'm a guru.:thumbsup:
 

Pat Buckley

GT40s Supporter
Conspiracies are like a**holes - everyone has one. I just hate it when I am expected to buy into it or be labelled stupid. (Or uneducated, or whatever)

(just made that up - can you tell?)
 

Pat

Supporter
"The deficit was created by going into a war AND giving tax breaks to the rich. Never before have we gone to war and given tax cuts to the rich at the same time."

You can't be serious... Last year, the government took in a record in new taxes because the lowered rates raised income, raised the market and generated... more tax income.
The fact is that lowered taxes generate more tax revenue. However, lowered taxes do not serve the far left agenda of wealth redistribution. So we will all hear screaming about it.

Some quick facts: Now the top 1% of earners pay 21.20% of all taxes paid at an average rate of 24%, the top 2 - 5% of earners pay 14.55% of all taxes at an average of 18% (Top 5% pay @36% of all tax) The bottom 50% pay 3% of all tax collected at an average rate of 2.98%. So the upper 50% of the wage earners pay @97% of all tax collections, and the lower ones only @3%. When you add state and local taxes to Federal tax the U.S. leads the World in High Corporate Taxes. Currently, the average combined federal and state corporate tax rate in the U.S. is 39.3 percent. So if you (like many on this board) are business owners, you are whacked twice.

The banks are regulated as was Fannie and Freddie. When conservatives tried to slow CRA lending in 2002-2003 the Democrats (Barney Frank) in so many words accused the White House was being racist for attempting to "curtail minority home ownership. So they backed off. Bush tried to privatize social security and Ted Kennedy said there was nothing wrong with it (hint: it will be out of money in a generation). Enron happened corporate boards were regulated and we all got Sarbanes Oxley and what do we have to show for it??

Hint: Nada

Fact is that three years ago we knew Mortgage lending at 110% of value, nothing down, no credit checks etc. would only foster overbuilding and a market flood of real estate but everyone got greedy, got a home equity loan for the new boat, big screen or house they couldn’t afford and the market caught up and private real-estate crashed.

Hint: Next is commercial real estate, then credit cards.

Internationally, we've been spending money like drunken sailors, saving little and it's caught up with us. Financial institutions started getting creamed about two years ago by Federal loan quality audits and as a result, they are setting aside massive amounts of capital to cover loans they know will pay to satisfy the regulators. So capital for lending dries up. One top ten banks estimates the regulatory environment has 40% of capital in prior years available for lending locked up to satisfy the regulator's capital adequacy standards. Add to that mark to market rules from FASB and the SEC to further compress the balance sheet and you get banks awash in capital frozen by regulators. That's why they did the TARP bailout.

Prediction: Things will suck for about two more years. Businesses will fail; Unemployment will jump to double digits as it did with Carter. Individual spending will compress and savings will increase. Pent up demand will create market forces that will eventually stimulate the economy. In 5 years, banks will pay out the TARP program to avoid the interest going from 5 to 9% and there will be a large Federal windfall (as there was after the savings and loan bailout in the '80s). Assuming there is not a disaster in monetary policy like nationalization of industry, we'll then start seeing a recovery similar to the late '80s.

Blame Bush, he let the spending get out of hand and the devaluation of the dollar. But also blame Congress for not addressing Fannie and Freddie, lack of banking committee oversight, stilted rules for special interests, consumer greed and most of all, look in the mirror. We all own a piece of this.

Flame on!
 
I usually shy away from these political posts..there are so many opinions out there, and as Pat said about theories so goes it with opinions.
Looking at the situation we find ourselves in, I agree with Kalun about the economy. This was a created crisis, and the left thrives on crisis. Pretty soon if we are not vigilant the middle class will cease to exist, and we will have the poor and the Elite. I believe in the Constitution, and our founding fathers knew that a bank controlled economy would fail. No amount of money injected by the Fed will create jobs, the private sector can only do that. The Fed would like to create a million jobs for people to dig ditches, and another million for people to fill them, they call this "Job Creation", the New Deal proved the ineffectiveness of government intervention in the market except to totally screw it. Meanwhile taxpayers will pay the brunt of all of the crap the knuckleheads in congress and the senate come up with.
Kalun, I don't see your post as a conspiracy theory, I actually believe that the left is trying to destroy this country through the banking system. Meanwhile as government takes control of banking, finance, and now two of the auto manufacturers they will set up rules to protect their stake and add additional restrictions so that we will all be driving Smart cars, and they will continue cruising around in their limos barking out the orders.
I would never defend the auto manufacturers, but there is no "Free Market" with all of the regulations such as "CAFE" and others that limit production, and cause higher manufacturing costs that are ultimately passed on to consumers.
Check out www.portfolio.com/news and look for an article by Michael Lewis "The End".
Also check out "Zeitgeist", a downloadable movie that raises some questions about banks and government manipulation of the fed.
I agree with Kalun on his points, and especially about the "One worl Government" and it scares me too see the sovereignty of The U.S. being eroded by the U.N.
Bush ran as a Republican, but he is really a liberal using Christian values to mask his liberalism, and it shows in his policies. Although he has done some pretty good things, the Republican party dropped the ball and it seems they mostly have given up their conservative values.
Some of the Republicans saw the problems in 2005 with Fannie May and Freddie Mac, and raised the alarm, and asked for an investigation, but the action was blocked by the Democrats. Meanwhile People like Franklin Raines, Maxine Watters and a host of others took millions in bonuses, and denied there was a problem. These sub-prime mortages were packaged and sold to a greedy Wall Street, and as they defaulted, and real estate prices dropped the whole thing collapsed like a house of cards.

Now the knee-jerk reaction was to elect a new president who says he can solve all of our problems, and as Jim mentioned there are over 500 people in the government who really decide what happens, the president is just the head of the big group of out of touch scoundrels who have no concept of how we live. In short we as a country are in deep shit.
Just my 20c
Phil

"If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, If you read the newspaper you are mis-informed" Mark Twain
 
Currently, the average combined federal and state corporate tax rate in the U.S. is 39.3 percent. So if you (like many on this board) are business owners, you are whacked twice.

Hi,

I don't really like to getting involved in this sort of debate as I am fairly opinionated and am in the UK, however, I have to disagree with the above. It may be different in the UK but I paid the least amount of tax in my 25 years of working during the five years I was self employed running my own business, to the extent that my accountant got fed up with me questioning if I should be paying more!!.

What with directors loan accounts, corporation tax at 20% "on profits", dividend payments and a very good accountant I paid virtually no tax for 5 years compared to what I have to pay no whilst in employment.

Leona Mindy Roberts Helmsley (July 4, 1920 – August 20, 2007) was a billionaire New York City hotel operator and real estate investor. A former housekeeper testified that she had heard Helmsley say: "We don't pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes ...",




Regards


Regards
 
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Chris Duncan

Supporter
"The deficit was created by going into a war AND giving tax breaks to the rich. Never before have we gone to war and given tax cuts to the rich at the same time."

You can't be serious... Last year, the government took in a record in new taxes because the lowered rates raised income, raised the market and generated... more tax income.

The only incomes raised were for the rich. For the lower 90% wages are flat or in decline in real terms since bush took office.

"raised the market" are you on an island without communication? going down is not raising.

If we've raised so much tax income then why the record deficit and debt?

The fact is that lowered taxes generate more tax revenue. However, lowered taxes do not serve the far left agenda of wealth redistribution.
Clinton raised taxes on the rich, that's why they hated him so much. The first balanced budget in 50 years. Bush lowered taxes on the rich, the worst deficit and debt in history. So your "theory" doesn't seem to work in practice.

Wealth re-distribution is real, it has gone in the direction of the rich since Reagan took office. The inequality is at the most it's ever been in the history of the world, right now in this country.

So the upper 50% of the wage earners pay @97% of all tax collections, and the lower ones only @3%.
with correspondent earnings. If you tax someone who can barely afford to live then you are going to have revolt, that's what's happening in Greece. The rich got where they are partially, directly or indirectly, by transferring the wealth from lower to upper, they better be ready to support the system they profited from, because they are the only ones that can afford it.

When you add state and local taxes to Federal tax the U.S. leads the World in High Corporate Taxes.
ONLY by base rate, not by actual collected amounts. The US system is a myriad of loopholes. Actual collections by percentage we rank about 10th in the world. After "subsidies" and offshore havens there's many US corps that pay ZERO taxes.


Currently, the average combined federal and state corporate tax rate in the U.S. is 39.3 percent. So if you (like many on this board) are business owners, you are whacked twice.
They've made it difficult for smaller businesses to be sure, but it's not because the poor aren't paying enough. It's because the rich are taking and hoarding too much. It's because of the monopoly globalization agenda.

The banks are regulated as was Fannie and Freddie.
You are on an island. There were rules before that limited derivatives, they are now at 50 to 1. Rules before that limited unqualified borrowers. Rules before that said companies like Enron couldn't buy public utilities at pennies on the dollar, or set up offshore shell companies. Who took away the rules?

When conservatives tried to slow CRA lending in 2002-2003 the Democrats (Barney Frank) in so many words accused the White House was being racist for attempting to "curtail minority home ownership. So they backed off.
What party held all 3 branches of power in 2002-2003? Why did they "back off"?

Bush tried to privatize social security and Ted Kennedy said there was nothing wrong with it (hint: it will be out of money in a generation)
ROTFLMAO!!!! If we had put SS into stocks it only would have lost 40% in the last year.

But that is what the CONservatives want, they want to ruin social security. They can't stand the fact that a full 50% of senior citizens don't go into poverty on retirement. Which is exactly how it was before SS.

They've been saying it will be out of money ever since it's inception, repeat the lie often enough, some people will believe.

Enron happened corporate boards were regulated and we all got Sarbanes Oxley and what do we have to show for it?? Hint:Nada
You don't really expect a criminal cabal, led by the bush crime family, that would be implicated if regulations were pursued, to actually enforce them do you?

Fact is that three years ago we knew Mortgage lending at 110% of value, nothing down, no credit checks etc. would only foster overbuilding and a market flood of real estate but everyone got greedy, got a home equity loan for the new boat, big screen or house they couldn’t afford and the market caught up and private real-estate crashed.
If you give a baby candy, and he eats too much and gets sick, who's fault is it?

That's why they did the TARP bailout.
all that "let the free market work" big lie went by the wayside. Tarp is just another transfer of wealth mechanism.

Blame Bush, he let the spending get out of hand and the devaluation of the dollar. But also blame Congress for not addressing Fannie and Freddie, lack of banking committee oversight, stilted rules for special interests, consumer greed and most of all, look in the mirror. We all own a piece of this. Flame on!
The baby is at least partly at fault, you should try reasoning with him.

Sorry, I haven't taken out a loan in over a decade, but I'm not going to whine about taxes.
 
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Terry Oxandale

Skinny Man
The fact is that lowered taxes generate more tax revenue

I need some enlightenment here. My understanding is that this is an economic theory for those that support this idea and has never be proven to be true or false, much like God has never been proven to exist or not.
 
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