"Terrorism" was a word that got thrown around a lot in the Bush administration. Every disjointed, mangled speech George W. Bush ever made invoked the constant threat of "terrorists". Yet, no one seemed to recognize that of the five most loathsome terrorists of the past seventy years, only one had ever been brought to justice for his heinous crimes. The 'tally sheet' was clear:
Joseph Stalin reportedly killed 10,000,000 of his countrymen.
Adolph Hitler reportedly killed 6,000,000 Jews, gypsies, and other 'undesireables'.
Idi Amin reportedly murdered 2,000,000 people in Uganda during his brief reign of terror.
George W. Bush had killed over 750,000 Iraqis, Iranians, and American soldiers during his 8 years as U.S. President.
Saddam Hussein was convicted of killing 148 people in a small Iraqi village, and was sentenced to death.

These five "terrorists" had collectively been responsible for the deaths of at least 18,750,148 people.

Yet, Stalin died in his sleep. Hitler chose to commit suicide. Amin fled his country and lived out the rest of his life in exile. Bush was finally assassinated by the O.U.T.R.A.G.E. revolution. And only Hussein was tried in a court of law for crimes against humanity. He was sentenced to death by hanging. Oh, to be sure, everyone "knew" he'd killed more than 148 people, but his trial was nothing more than a sham, engineered by the Bush administration to "get even" with Saddam for humilating George H.W. Bush during Desert Storm. Bush (Sr.) had always been highly criticized for "not finishing the job" and ousting Hussein back in the early 1990's. George W. Bush went to war with Iraq for three primary reasons: 1) His family had a personal vendetta against Hussein ever since the days of Desert Storm, and this was their way of 'settling the score'; 2) the giant U.S. military-industrial complex hadn't had a good 'war' for almost fifteen years, and it needed to boost its sagging profits; 3) Dick Cheney and his buddies at Exxon-Mobil wanted all of Iraq's OIL so that they could get richer and richer and richer as they continued to feed American motorists' dependency on foreign OIL. As long as Americans continued to drive $60,000 gas-guzzling SUVs, the blood of 735,000 Iraqi citizens and 15,000 U.S. soldiers was on their hands. George W. Bush was the 'trigger man' - the "Commander-In-Chief", who made it happen. But few Americans were willing to give up their precious fancy cars just to stop the killings.
On Monday, June 16, 2008, a plant manager at a General Motors truck assembly plant in Fort Wayne, Indiana made a startling announcement. Since there was no longer a General Motors executive hierarchy to over ride her decision, she had ordered that all Chevrolet and GMC trucks being built in her plant would now be equipped with a small device which would enable the vehicles to easily double - or even triple - their gas mileage! The device was easily manufactured and attached to the trucks at very little additional cost (perhaps $2.00). A group of engineers from the now-defunct Tokheim Corporation (a Fort Wayne-based gasoline pump manufactuer that had went bankrupt in the late 1990's) had developed the device, and brought it to their local GM plant manager. She was so impressed, she took it to her superiors in Detroit. They were so impressed, they ordered her not to pursue it any further. Resembling a ballpoint pen, the device could also enhance fuel economy of those vehicles powered by Ethanol-85, used cooking oil, or other alternative fuels. Economical performance was not the only featured benefit of this invention: it also helped keep the engine block cleaner, and assisted in maintaining almost all the major parts of a vehicle's engine so that those engines would last much longer! The engineers were confident this tiny, easy-to-install, simple device could double - or triple - the life of an automobile engine, perhaps by as much as 300,000 miles or more! General Motors executives, obviously, didn't want to hear that. Why in the world would they want a engine to last so long? That would mean drivers might keep their cars for ten, fifteen, or twenty years before buying another one! That could impede profits, and GM was too short-sighted to recognize that this simple little addition to the products could help them stop the erosion of their U.S. market share, which had brought GM perilously close to bankruptcy. It had even created an "alliance" with Nissan to try and fend off such impending doom....but even that merger of the minds hadn't helped General Motors' fortunes all that much. "I don't have anyone to answer to anymore," said the Indiana plant manager, "so I'm going ahead with this on my own. I believe it will add value to our vehicles, and will be of benefit to our customers."
She has placed an initial order with the laid-off Tokheim engineers for 100,000 pieces. They would be added to GM trucks as soon as the order was fulfilled.
She admitted that this would, of course, cut into oil companies' profits as well. If people bought less gasoline, demand would diminish, and oil companies might have to go back to selling gas at a dollar a gallon. If the standard margin on a gallon of gas was 10%, that meant they would earn only ten cents a gallon instead of thirty cents a gallon. Bad news for oil company executives and shareholders; good news for the 'common' American motorist. This was the classic example of how governments and corporations were so tightly entertwined. For over fifty years, this conspiracy had screwed the American public so that a handful of muckkity-mucks, their executive management staffs, and major shareholders (like Cheney) could reap enormous riches off the backs of hard-working average Americans. It was the perfect illustration of the Reagan "All for One...Me" mentality that had so infused itself into the American consciousness.
From the perspective of the socio-political-economic professors, this "trickle down" theory was the catalyst that had gradually dragged the United States closer to a two-class society, similar to those in Haiti and the Dominican-Republic, where there was a handful of the very, very rich - and the rest of the population, the very, very poor. The strength of the U.S.A. came from its hard-working, prodigious 'middle class'. That 'middle class' was being eroded because of the avarice of a few million people at the top of the food chain, whose appetite for money and power were unsatiated. They couldn't be satisfied with a million or two; they always needed more. So they shipped manufacturing jobs offshore, refused to give in to a respectable minimum wage, and manipulated the geopolitical system of the world all for their own grandiose gratification.
It didn't matter how many innocent people died, how many families found themselves unable to pay their bills, or how many elderly citizens resorted to eating cat food. All that mattered was......more power....and more power meant more money for them. Reagan's trickle-down economics worked as long as no one broke out of the mold. Now, a diminutive, short-haired lady in Indiana threatened to undo all that. It was a dream-come-true for O.U.T.R.A.G.E. followers.