Firing the Project Manager: Like the USSR in 1989, America under Bush is falling apart

By Jane Stillwater

Al-Jazeerah, November 21, 2004

 

On The Apprentice last week, the Project Manager got sacked. "Everything you did on this project failed. You're fired."

Everything America has done lately has failed too. Economically, militarily, politically and morally, the United States today is pretty much where the USSR was in 1989. Our country is falling apart.

What if George Bush had been an Apprentice contestant? What if he was this week's Project Manager? "Here's the task: Make America into a really great country. Use your resources wisely. If you mess up, someone WILL get fired."

Reporting back to the Boardroom, Bush would get nailed for a WHOLE BUNCH of failures. First, he would have to confess that he LOST the war on Iraq. Seven generals just came out and said that the war was a mess. One even stated that the only way to win that war was to GET OUT. Now.

Then Bush would have to admit that he had mis-placed the Constitution too. "Sorry. I know it's around here somewhere." The environment? World peace? Education? The stock market? The national debt? On Bill Moyers last Friday, some economist stated that the national debt is probably now at FIFTY-ONE TRILLION DOLLARS! George, you lost the national debt too?

"How about the elections? Do people have confidence in the way that you counted the vote?" Surely you got that one right? What? It looks like the count is NINE MILLION votes off? Would Carolyn raise an eyebrow on that one or what?

"But what about the dollar? You've still got the dollar, don't you?" Well...er...no. It's at the lowest it's ever been. "Well, tell me. What HAS your team accomplished?

"Let's see. We convinced 20 million Christians to give up the Bible in favor of the "Left Behind" series, we bankrupted the treasury, we demoralized the armed forces and we divided the country into warring states." Great. You are over budget, your employees hate you, 9-11 happened on your watch and now the CIA is falling apart under Porter Goss.

"Give me one reason why I shouldn't fire you!" Silence in the Boardroom.

"George. You're fired!"

PS: Bush was so terrible as Project Manager that they didn't even give him a taxi ride home after the show. America's next Project Manager will do better, however. How do I know? Because, after Bush, there is nowhere to go but up.

**** Sources:

From TruthOut: The Dollar is Melting, Bush Administration Takes No Action http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/111904X.shtml 

From Ron Harold: Journalist predicts war in Iraq will plunge U.S. economy into downturn By PAM ZUBECK THE GAZETTE: President Bush's willingness "to take a lot more body bags" from the Iraqi war will plunge the United States economy into a tailspin as European nations further distance themselves from the war with boycotts of American markets, a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist predicted on Friday. http://pm.gazette.com/fullstory.php?id=3943 

From Michael: Now that Europe has been alienated, we have no real friends in the event of a real war. Our traditional allies no longer exist. Even Britain is distancing itself and Tony Blair is bye bye! I doubt even the so called "coalition of the willing" could be bought into a war with China, a nuclear power with intercontinental ballistic missile capability and a standing army of 100 million. Thanks to Bush's lawlessness the world is indeed once again on the brink of total war.

From TruthOut: CIA in Turmoil, deputy chief resigns. John E. McLaughlin, a 32-year CIA veteran who was acting director for two months this summer until Goss took over, resigned after warning Goss that his top aide, former Capitol Hill staff member Patrick Murray, was treating senior officials disrespectfully and risked widespread resignations, the officials said. http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/111404X.shtml

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