One of the main tenants of the neocon philosophy is that tax cuts are crucial to a vibrant economy. In fact, right now, as the economy tanks, Bush is calling for more tax cuts to help get things moving again.

Tell ya’ what. You can take your tax cuts and put ‘em where the sun don’t shine, ‘cause there is no way they’re going to make up for the money I’ve lost…and you’ve lost, in the continually withering stock market. Withering? Did I use such a subtle term? How about disastrous. Plummeting. Free fall.

The meltdown in the sub prime mortgage scam is a direct result of the Bush/neocon philosophy, which eschews regulation and professes that the “marketplace will take care of itself.” Right. That’s fine when you’re filthy rich, but not when your entire retirement has been hijacked by the corporate/governmental complex that has pushed everyone into the equities markets, whether they like…or know anything about it at all!

No tiny tax cut is going to rescue this economy and it really doesn’t matter. Tax cuts are a specious bit of political flummery which the guys in DC know they can sell to the mokes in Des Moines. In fact, tax cuts aren’t even favored by the “real” conservatives, who understand that, to have a stable economy, you have to have a stable policy, part of which includes a “pay as you go” component.

For Bush and his cadre to use the current meltdown (which they are totally responsible for) as a platform to push their idiotic tax cut agenda is insane.

However, that should be a surprise to anyone…

Piltdown Man