Good budget, bad budget

When it comes to raising money and spending it, the federal government could take a page out of the Republican Party’s playbook. Wait a minute; the Republican Party is the federal government!

According to Associated Press, “President Bush and the Republican National Committee spent a combined $707 million this election cycle after a fundraising effort so prolific the president’s campaign still has millions left over.” Good budget.

Since taking office Bush and his band of drunken sailors in congress have taken trillions in surplus and, presto, plunged us into trillions in debt, putting us on the road to third-world economic status. Bad budget.

All those rich people kicked in all that money to elect and reelect their country-club buddy to “get government off their backs and out of their back pockets.” An ill-advised war rages on, good jobs go begging, clean air and water legislation goes woefully under-funded, the trade deficit deepens, dollar declines. Where’s that going to leave the rest of us? Our children and grandchildren?

How many days left until November 2, 2008? Somebody should come up with a Web-site counter for that.