CLOWNING AROUND WITH THE ECONOMY

CLOWNING AROUND WITH THE ECONOMY



What a hoot it was to watch "Winkin', Blinkin', and Nod" go on the
summer comedy circuit to tout the economic policies of George W!

Winkin' was played by Treasury Secretary John Snow, Blinkin' by
Commerce Secretary Don Evans, and Nod by Labor Secretary Elaine
Chao.

They sallied forth in the heat of August to Wisconsin and Minnesota,
doing their best to wow the locals with what the White House PR
hucksters billed as:

"The Jobs and Growth Tour."

With a hoard of media-types in tow, the Bush cabinet trio traveled
in
style to six cities in two days, aboard a luxury motor coach
equipped
with such rich touches as black leather sofas and a mirrored
ceiling.

They had the crowds in stitches with their slapstick schtick about
how
Bush's multibillion-dollar tax giveaway to the rich would soon
trickle
down and spread prosperity across the land.

It was billed as a "dialogue tour," but the dialogue was decidely
one-way, wth the cabinet honchos insisting at every stop that "the
economy is picking up" and that George himself was "concerned" about
us commoners.

At the end of the road show, Secretary Snow said he was going to
tell
Bush that "I ran into a lot of people who asked me personally to
express [their] gratitude to you for worrying and thinking about
us."

Yeah, George, thanks for the 2.7 million jobs lost under your
economic
stewardship.

Thanks for KOing our 401(k)s, turning our retirement nest eggs into
nightmares.

Thanks for the two million more Americans who have been left without
health care since you took office.

Thanks for an economy in which corporations are dumping 200,000
workers a month, now shipping our high-tech and white-collar jobs
out
of the country.

This is Jim Hightower saying... Maybe the comic cabinet members are
fooling themselves, but they're not fooling anyone in the real
world.

After all, even a dog knows the difference between being stumbled
over
and being kicked.

The Bushites are kicking America's middle-class and low-income
workers.
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