Double Uncertainty Is Gonna Getcha

Have no fear, George W. Bush and the tax cuts are here. The One Trick Pony is playing his broken record mantra of tax cuts to catapult the propaganda once again. When asked by a reporter recently: “What kind of hope can you offer to people who are in dire straits?” Bush responded:

Permanent tax — keep the tax cuts permanent, for starters. There's a lot of economic uncertainty. You just said that. You just said the price of gasoline may be up to 4-dollars-a-gallon — or some expert told you that — and that creates a lot of uncertainty if you're out there wondering whether or not — you know, what your life is going to be like and you're looking at 4-dollars-a-gallon, that's uncertain. And when you couple with the idea that taxes may be going up in a couple of years, that's double uncertainty. And therefore one way to deal with uncertainty is for Congress to make the tax cuts permanent.

So much hope, I don’t think I can handle it all!

Since when did uncertainty become a problem? Uncertainty implies that things can get worse, but it also implies that thinks can get better. Even without tax cuts.

The economy is ALWAYS uncertain. All of the time. George W. Bush cannot change that fact. Tax cuts cannot change that fact.

One thing that is not certain is whether tax cuts benefit the economy. Bush has been cutting taxes since he became president and the economy stinks. You do the math.

Four dollars for a gallon of gas, however, is a certainty. Bush is either mistaken or lying, when he says that it’s uncertain. The certain fact of four dollars for a gallon of gas is one of the things that has people worried. It’s not the uncertainty, it’s the certainty. Like the certainty that we are all screwed because Bush is certainly our president.