Iraq

    This is a note to the plurality of the American electorate that voted against George W. Bush because they thought he was too simple-minded: Think again.


     Our appointed president just came out with a brilliant plan to get the American economy moving. He is going to provide the Iraqi people (but not the American public) with comprehensive and free medical care. This is going to revive one of the hardest-hit American sectors: the airline industry.


     How? Very simple. All of us who cannot afford to pay for expensive medical care will hop on a plane and go to Iraq and receive free treatment (an airline ticket being less expensive than a day's stay at the hospital). On the way back we will stop in Canada for less expensive drugs.


     The airlines will be able to compensate their CEOs with obscene bonuses, and if they spend some of it, they will help the rest of the economy to recover.


     Brilliant.


     And you thought that the "compassionate conservative" did not know how to run a country and contribute to the global economy.



(Sun-Sentinel 5/17/09)