Just had a long talk with someone in the Psychic Fraud Network, and I asked her to give me headlines for the next four years. Here is what she said:
Nov. 7, 2000.
Americans, in a rejection of economic good times and national stability, vote GW Bush Jr. into office.
The President-elect promptly goes to Chuck-E-Cheese to celebrate, saying "They have the best pinball machines there." While playing pinball, Bush announces that Rush Limbaugh and G Gordon Liddy will be the first two members named to his cabinet.
Day 100: Shortly after taking office, Bush announces his national agenda, including plans to appoint four anti-abortion judges, dismantle the Environmental Protection Agency, and eliminate all taxes for Americans making more than 1 million dollars a year. "My advisors say they don't pay any taxes anyway," Bush said, "so we may as well make it easier on them by not requiring them to pay taxes at all. This should free up thousands of attorneys and accountants to work their tax magic for Americans making less than one million a year." He also vowed to end the nation's war on drugs, vowing that what people do in their homes was their business. Bush would not comment on reports that cocaine sales in Washington have risen exponentially since he took office.
Day 200: Seventeen Nobel Laureate economists predict that with the downturn in the stock market and the slowing of the economy, Bush's tax reduction plan will cause deficit spending to quickly reach "Ronald Reagan levels" in the next two years. Bush advisors discount the plan, saying that with a Republican congress, trickle down economics will finally be given a chance to work.
Day 250: In a compromise vote, Republican led congress dropped the across the board tax cut for next year, calling it "damaging" to the national economy. The new tax cut plan eliminates reductions to persons making less than $300,000 a year.
End of year one: Unemployment figures have gone from a low of 3.4% (the day Bush took office) to 7.1%, due mainly to raising of interest rates due to the Federal budget shortfall. Bush's plan to subsidize Ford and GM's effort to build cars in Mexico has led to riots in Detroit, a town that helped vote Bush into office. Ford and GM stockholders are pleased with the increase in profits; the CEO of each company received a total of 17 million dollars in bonuses for their work. Inflation rates are now at 6.8%, the highest they have been in 11 years.
She kept going, talking about budget deficits, losses of personal rights, and higher unemployment, but I got so depressed that I hung up. You gotta wonder if these people actually have a line on the future...but then maybe everything she said was wrong. I would love to come back to this thread in four years to see if any of this stuff actually happens. Maybe someone will save this on their hard drive to tell all of us, "I told you so".
Nov. 7, 2000.
Americans, in a rejection of economic good times and national stability, vote GW Bush Jr. into office.
The President-elect promptly goes to Chuck-E-Cheese to celebrate, saying "They have the best pinball machines there." While playing pinball, Bush announces that Rush Limbaugh and G Gordon Liddy will be the first two members named to his cabinet.
Day 100: Shortly after taking office, Bush announces his national agenda, including plans to appoint four anti-abortion judges, dismantle the Environmental Protection Agency, and eliminate all taxes for Americans making more than 1 million dollars a year. "My advisors say they don't pay any taxes anyway," Bush said, "so we may as well make it easier on them by not requiring them to pay taxes at all. This should free up thousands of attorneys and accountants to work their tax magic for Americans making less than one million a year." He also vowed to end the nation's war on drugs, vowing that what people do in their homes was their business. Bush would not comment on reports that cocaine sales in Washington have risen exponentially since he took office.
Day 200: Seventeen Nobel Laureate economists predict that with the downturn in the stock market and the slowing of the economy, Bush's tax reduction plan will cause deficit spending to quickly reach "Ronald Reagan levels" in the next two years. Bush advisors discount the plan, saying that with a Republican congress, trickle down economics will finally be given a chance to work.
Day 250: In a compromise vote, Republican led congress dropped the across the board tax cut for next year, calling it "damaging" to the national economy. The new tax cut plan eliminates reductions to persons making less than $300,000 a year.
End of year one: Unemployment figures have gone from a low of 3.4% (the day Bush took office) to 7.1%, due mainly to raising of interest rates due to the Federal budget shortfall. Bush's plan to subsidize Ford and GM's effort to build cars in Mexico has led to riots in Detroit, a town that helped vote Bush into office. Ford and GM stockholders are pleased with the increase in profits; the CEO of each company received a total of 17 million dollars in bonuses for their work. Inflation rates are now at 6.8%, the highest they have been in 11 years.
She kept going, talking about budget deficits, losses of personal rights, and higher unemployment, but I got so depressed that I hung up. You gotta wonder if these people actually have a line on the future...but then maybe everything she said was wrong. I would love to come back to this thread in four years to see if any of this stuff actually happens. Maybe someone will save this on their hard drive to tell all of us, "I told you so".
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