Irony?

Lately, this is the only question I'm asked: is the U.S. in another Great Depression.

Do dogs bark?

Congratulations George W. Bush. Your legacy is now complete. With economic ruin caused by rampant corporate greed (remember Enron anyone?) added to the mix of real estate market collapse, virtually every citizen of the United States of America is now worse off than she or he was 8 years ago. Quite an accomplishment. For a while there it seemed as if only middle and lower class Americans would be decimated by the insanity of your administration. But now, with the stock market crash nearly complete, pretty much everyone will get walloped by you one way or another.

Hard to believe that merely 8 years ago, the U.S. enjoyed a surplus sparked by the egalitarian prosperity of the Clinton Administration. Those billions would sure come in handy right now. Help bail out the billionaires whose greed, along with your administration's short-sighted, unfathomably bad decisions, caused the country to collapse financially in the first place.

How ironic that one of the reasons cited for Al-Qaeda choosing to bomb the Twin Towers was to topple American financial markets. Note to terrorists: No need for that. Don't bother bombing us. We can accomplish financial disaster on our own. Tax breaks for billionaires all around!

But far more disturbing than our economic woes are our wars with Afghanistan and Iraq. A part of me wonders if this financial crisis actually serves the Bush Administration and, by extension, McCain. Money worries are drowning out the weak voices of war protesters. Even college kids are more worried about the economy than the two civilizations we're wiping off the planet. Another testament to our values.

In a future post I will recap the Bush Administration's "accomplishments." If they weren't so tragic, it would be really fun.