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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill who wrote (454609)	9/8/2003 2:47:04 PM
From: laura_bush	Respond to of 769670

Third World, Here We Come This is a great site! How, like, totally embarrassing. In the wake of the big blackout, critics charged that the United States has a “Third World” power grid. Third World! News stories featured Iraqis giving us advice about how to survive with zero or, at best, intermittent power. Now we’re hearing how our roads, bridges, and water pipes are also “Third World,” while we struggle to rid our computers of worms and viruses. But here’s what’s been missing from these stories: this is Team Bush’s overarching goal (well, in addition to bullying the entire planet)—to turn the United States into a Third World country. There will be a hill someplace, as there are in so many developing countries, where Bush and his 122 really rich friends will live in a gated compound. Down below will be everyone else. Roosevelt had his New Deal, Johnson The Great Society, and Team Bush has Third World Wonderland. Ah, utopia. Now, here’s my hunch. Someone in the White House—my guess is Dubya himself—has looked at certain world rankings, seen how various Third Worlders are beating us out on the immiseration front, and said, “Dammit, we can do better than that!” I mean, really, this can be the only explanation for why, in the wake of 9/11, Bush and the House Republicans nixed an energy bill that would have provided funds for upgrading said electrical grid. (I know, they wanted to drill in Alaska, but that’s part of Third World dreamin’—trash whatever open acreage you have left.) Continues......... inthesetimes.com