Thank you, Prairie Sunshine.

I opened the DIGG, commented there and recommended.

I hope your label for this tragic period in America’s history is rightly hung around GBW’s neck into infinity. This administration should be charted as the most destructive in our country’s history.

I’m a child of the Great Depression. My father, a WWI vet, worked on the WPA (Works Project Administration). We drew commodities which sustained us. (free staples from US Dept Agriculture). My mother made our dresses from flour sacks, and those were handed down from oldest to youngest (me).

I remember times of hunger (water gravy and one biscuit), and having one pair of shoes for a year, 2 pair of socks (one on and one hanging to dry).
We were fortunate to share-crop a small farm in north-central TX, to have horses with which to work it, to have a milk cow and a pig to butcher in the winter. Many families came through who lived in an old car and worked in our fields either hoeing cotton or “pulling boles”.

It’s a long story…just watch the movie or read Steinbeck’s book, The Grapes of Wrath. That’s the way it was.

I hope I live to see GWB having to survive on water gravy and one biscuit! It won’t happen, but in a just world it would.

Justice comes at the end of the story, and a rope. A sweet dose of vigilantism is the climax.

Thank you for sharing your story. The ’30s had a lot more to do with forming the character of Greatest Generation than did war, I think. Too bad more did not learn from that time.

And I’m so glad you mentioned Steinbeck, so many of his stories told vital truths. Unlike the false premises of Ayn Rand’s cultism. There is no honor in corruption.

Like this guy who people knew was a crook, but as long as it was what they thought was insider trading was okay with them…some small justice that their own greed got them burned Ponzi-style.

People are very different now from back then. The down and out, jobless, hungry, and hopeless sank into depression.

The 60’s generation protested. The Civil Rights group marched, boycotted, and fought back against injustice.

The youths of today grew up watching street violence on TV, the explicit cop shows, 24, the survival contests. I don’t think they are simply just going to endure the hardships that are ahead; they will fight back.

When watching the riots in Greece, I noticed that the thrown rocks were aimed at a bank….. and last night 2 banks were bombed in Oregon.

In this Wall Street’s Great World Robbery the victims are spread all over the globe; what the consequences of that will be I cannot imagine.

Way back in the late 50’s – 60’s we were labeled the Ugly American. Bush has carved that in stone for ages to come.

Yes, Prairie Sunshine, I have followed the Madoof story since it broke. Says a lot that his sons turned him in. The Greatest Con Artist.

I have ordered the book, The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness by the psychiatrist, Erich Fromm. I hope it will give me some insight into the desease which seems to afflict so many of our ruling elite, beginning with King George.

I read all your posts and comments and appreciate every one!

Hey, thanks.

Would that more of the ruling class–politicians, pundits, press, all of ‘em–would show a fraction of your introspective thinking and inquiry.

Yes, I do hope we return to having a Department of Justice that seeks justice.

Thanks, Prairie Sunshine, those characteristics came with the freckles I think. I really didn’t have a choice.

You know, recently in the appearances by GWB he has stated that when he looks in the mirror he can say he didn’t compromise his “principles”. Well, just about everything he says has proven to be the exact opposite.

So, that’s telling us that he IS looking. What is he really seeing when he looks in that mirror? He knows. What he doesn’t know is that the older he grows, the more his wrongdoing will haunt him. Like LBJ, he will probably have to numb himself into oblivion with Jack Daniels.

In case you’re wondering, I’m an old lady and no, not a drinker (nor never have been much, but I’ve known quite a few).

Kindred spirits, acquarius, kindred spirits. Right down to the freckles.

And I do agree with you that GWB has likely cursed himself to a long bitter old age. Unless he’s even more of a total airhead than James Carville called him.

Curtis Sittenfield has written a novel that tries to deconstruct what on earth Laura Bush may have been thinking to so totally compromise her youthful ideals.

Yeah, I know…marry money and you’ll be the one who pays.

The coin of self-delusion…currency of the realm these days.

Back then girls went to college to snare a husband. If they hadn’t trapped one by graduation day, the spectre of being an old maid hung over them. She had only known W for 3 months when they married.

I’m sure you’ve heard about the 6 people at every wedding: the person he thinks he is; the person she thinks he is; and the person he is. Same applies to the bride.

I don’t think Laura knows what love is. Seems to me she pities W and enables him, is more of a protective mother than a wife.

Girls were raised to be Stepford wives, and for that Laura gets the golden seal of Good Housekeeping! (Thank heavens, I utterly failed that subject)

In the “it’s all of a piece” dept, I just read a commenter over at Huffpo in the story about Blair House make note that it is not tradition for presidents to “check in” on January 15, in fact, aside from the Bushes, presidents moved in early, and presumably used that site with its residence quarters and meeting space as their transition offices…cites Reagan and Carter as examples.

Bush 41 didn’t need to move in more than a day, he was already in town in the VP residence and offices.

And Bush 43 didn’t need to move in more than five days early, because after all he wasn’t doing the heavy lifting of transition any more than he’s done anything but be led around by his *ahem* ego the last eight years….

But shame on the lying Bushes for yet one more twisting of the truth to suit their own ends.

Can they leave soon enough?

Thanks PW my parents were both born in 1910 so they grew up and became adults during the whole period known as the Depression. It was caused in the same way as what we are experiencing now buy the Rich being GREEDY and selfish. The Rich have never learned their lesson and should be brought down with tax rates that that reaches 95% on anything over 1 million dollars. It is the only way to get this country back on the right track. also corporations must also bear the burden of taxes which currently 65% pay zero federal taxes, oh and this capital gains tax crap has to cease and should be taxed as ordinary income. Heath Care should be a right and not something that must be paid for so someone can make a Profit on your illness, which is morally just wrong.