A Cynic’s Look at 2008

With Democrats short of the votes needed to bring home the troops and end the military madness in the Middle East, more and more Americans and Iraqis will be added to the list of those who have already died. Their blood will be on the hands of this administration and this Congress. One can only hope that someday they wake up with the Lady MacBeth syndrome.

George Bush will escape being held accountable for his crime of lying about weapons of mass destruction, not to mention spying on American citizens, approving torture, and revoking the constitutional right of habeus corpus. His clean exit will prove once and for all that under the American “justice” system, only the poor and working-class have to answer for their actions.

Americans will struggle (and many will die) without universal healthcare. They will continue to be exploited and victimized by a greedy for-profit healthcare industry and equally reprehensible pharmaceutical companies. The “Hippocratic” oath never sounded so much like “hypocritical.”

With the cost of renting and buying soaring ever higher and way out of the reach of more and more people, the number of those living below the poverty line will grow. Reports that America’s children are going hungry will become more commonplace as the outrageous cost of living forces families to make cuts in basic necessities.

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