It is a time of freedom and fear, of Gaia and of borders, of many paths and the widening of a universal toll road, emptying country and swelling cities, of the public bought into privacy and the privacy of the public sold into invisible data banks and knowing algorithms. It is the time of the warrior's peace and the miser's charity, when the planting of a seed is an act of conscientious objection.

These are the times when maps fade and direction is lost. Forwards is backwards now, so we glance sideways at the strange lands through which we are all passing, knowing for certain only that our destination has disappeared. We are unready to meet these times, but we proceed nonetheless, adapting as we wander, reshaping the Earth with every tread.

Behind us we have left the old times, the standard times, the high times. Welcome to the irregular times.


 
Mother Davis gets out her calculator and refigures:

So, George W. Bush released his budget proposal for the national government today, in which his plans for pumping money into military contractor corporations are balanced by his complete lack of aid to state governments, which are having to reduce basic funding for schools as a result of Bush's last budget.

Let's give him a new name: Deficit George. This budget proposes the biggest budget deficit in the nation's history. Deficit George thinks that the federal government ought to spend $307 BILLION more than it earns in income. Has George W. Bush really earned this kind of credit rating from the American people??

What really steams my rice is that at the same time that Deficit George is running up huge bills that the children of hardworking will have to pay off in decades to come, he's doing nothing, absolutely nothing, to protect Social Security so that today's workers will be able to retire when they get old. In fact, Bush is suggesting that today's workers will have to wait a few extra years before they can retire.

Of course, Bush won't have any problems retiring. He was born rich. What about the rest of us? What about our children? George W. Bush's budget won't do anything for them.

It's becoming painfully plain that Deficit George is playing heavy on the conservative, skimpy on compassion.

Do the math. It ain't fuzzy. George W. is robbing working Americans blind.

Wishing she was rich enough to get part of Deficit George's "fat cat subsidy",
Mother Davis



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