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Dear Bono.
Thanks for the humanitarian relief effort you’ve done for Africa. You’ve used your celebrity to charm world leaders into forgiving billions in debt. Well done.
Ummm, coming from the country that helped make you famous and rich – not that you owe us anything really – I have a small favor, a trifle really, to ask.
AMERCIANS ARE DROWING IN DEBT! HELP.
There. I said it. Our President and Congress just pulled off the biggest heist since the sacking of Constantinople. They bailed out their thieving supporters leaving the rest of we poor taxpayers too broke to make bail. As your wife is a peace activist, you’ll be pleased to know that no guns were used during this robbery.
Anyway, thanks to a President and Congress who looked the other way while greedy bankers, real estate moguls, and corporate crooks spent us into generations of poverty, the average American is flat broke.
Any chance you might use that debt relief platform of yours to lobby for American debt relief? Start with the Chinese. I mean, Wal-Mart sold them our collective soul for cheep, crappy goods that our people stupidly bought. We traded our manufacturing base and economic security for plastic crap made by slave labor.
I love your RED program. Some profit from these items goes to AIDS victims. I think if you went to China and lobbied the People’s Government for American debt relief, you might mention Red. They are commies and seem drawn to the color. Liberal or not, don’t mention your Christian convictions. They might just kill you. Tell them we want to kiss and make up and would they please return some of our gold? Ask the same from the Arabs but substitute the words “gas money” for “gold.”
So, while deficits aren’t supposed to matter and really, what’s a few trillion in debt among friends anyway? We’re still screwed. To quote filmmaker Woody Allen, “More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly.”
Ever the gushing optimist, I kinda like to believe there might be a third option.
We need our debts to man and to God forgiven. Why? Because we cannot hope to pay them ourselves. I’ll keep praying to God for mercy and repentance to sweep this land. You go charm the bankers.
Well, Achtung Baby, and thanks!
Bryan Hupperts
© 2009
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Comments
By Dave on January 20th, 2009 at 9:48 am
If we just started a 10% cutback on spending that woulddo the trick in a decade. But spending “cuts” in Congress mean only that we are not increasing spending at the same rate as in the previous year. Not to mention the war costs we have incurred. In my humble? opinion we are in over our heads and only some good old fashioned national humiliation will turn us back fom the greed (covetousness) that caused this mess. Dave aka lambsev