And U.S. assholery should end when Bush is deposed, but that doesn’t mean it will
Published by punkass marc March 7th, 2007 in Bush is a cock, MoolaWith his approval ratings dropping to fascist levels of sub-30% in the US of A, George Bush has apparently decided to move on and tackle the problems of a smaller nation:
Communist rule of Cuba should end when ailing leader Fidel Castro dies, U.S. President George W. Bush said as he prepared for a Latin American tour this week.
Kudos to him for biting off a smaller piece of the world’s pie, but I’m afraid Bush may still be in over his head. When asked at the same press conference about Hugo Chavez’s plans in Venezuela, Bush put a pot on his head and called the kettle a poverty-maker:
“I strongly believe that government-run industry is inefficient and will lead to more poverty,” Bush said when asked about Chavez’s nationalizations.
“If the state tries to run the economy, it will enhance poverty and reduce opportunity.”
How cute. Bush is suddenly and deeply concerned about poverty and its causes. I wonder if he realizes the percentage of Americans living in poverty recently reached a 32-year high, with at least 16 million living in “deep or severe poverty” on his own soil. And the growth of that number under his watch? 26 percent. Those numbers mean he’s either wildly ignorant about ways people become poor, or — *gasp* — he’s a massive freaking hypocrite.
Given that rock and hard place, maybe Bush isn’t equipped to tell any country, no matter how small, how to care for its people. I doubt Cuba will take him off our hands, though. The poor bastard couldn’t even straighten out a baseball team, and if that’d make anyone suspicious of his economic leadership abilities, it’d be the Cubans.
THey have really great health care in Cuba. Seriously. They do. And it’s FREE. (most of their doctors are female, and being a doctor doesn’t make you rich. A sound policy in my opinion; I want my doctor to be someone who likes helping people, not some dude who wants to get rich quickly)
On the wildly ignorant/massive freaking hypocrite question, I’m inclined to go with wildly ignorant. Note how, yet again, as he always does, Bush uses the phrase “I strongly believe” in a situation that calls for something much more along the lines of “I have facts and data and a cogent argument.” He doesn’t even seem to realize that there are certain categories of empirical questions that are not settled by “belief.”
I could be persuaded the other way, though. I just don’t know. Whether there is any significant electro-chemical activity taking place inside George W. Bush’s skull remains one of the great questions of our time.
Cuba is fucking awesome. The U.S.? Not so fucken much.