Holy crap: Euro over a buck forty

  You know, one of the things that makes me the angriest about the bunch of thugs in the White House right now is how every bit of bad news works in their favor politically.

9/11 gives them a perfect opportunity to shred the Bill of Rights. Their failure in Iraq allows them to hold the whole world hostage by refusing to leave. The Katrina aftermath gives credence to their core philosophy that all government is bad. Etc., etc., etc.

Another side effect of Bush’s horrible policy decisions is the weakening dollar. Today for the first time the Euro is over $1.40.

The last time I was in Europe, in 2003, it was $1.18 or so, and that was damn near intolerable. But a buck and a half? Outrageous.

What this means of course is that Americans are less likely to travel to Europe, and therefore less likely to see how much better is the European quality of life in contrast to our own — whether it’s in health care, literacy, public safety, infant mortality, what have you.

The problem will only become worse as the Euro replaces the dollar as the default world currency, further pushing America out of the limelight on the world stage.

But politically this poor monetary policy helps Republicans, who can only keep power by keeping Americans in a heavily propagandized Fox News bubble where no reality is allowed to intrude. The worse Bush makes daily life for Americans, the more ignorant and insular we become as a nation. And therefore more willing to put up with what he and his bunch continue to do.

It’s a vicious circle, a downward spiral of inevitable national decline. It’s sad to watch, more so because it’s been so very predictable.

And when we hit rock bottom, Bush and his cronies will be long gone, probably off to some — you guessed it — European location where they can enjoy their bilked billions away from the ravaged, once-great nation they helped to destroy.

Oh, well. Hey, what do you think about O.J.?

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