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President Bush appeared on TV this afternoon, his backdrop this time neither cheering crowds nor an American flag, nor even tasteful blue curtains, but peaceful trees in the White House garden, and read a short prepared statement about the actions he and his advisors were taking on the rapidly unravelling financial system. He seemed unprepared and took no questions, which is perhaps just as well because even the most seasoned experts are not sure what actions are called for or even possible.
What is clear is that the US Treasury has poured acres of money into stopping various holes in the system, and reports are that behind the scenes they are also desperately buying dollars in order to prevent a disastrous devaluation of the $. These actions-- and there is every indication that the problems are not solved yet-- plus the enormous expenditure on the war effort, have already put America deeper into debt than at any time in our history. And this is without calculating in the cost of nationalizing Freddy and Fanny.
(Is there still someone out there who doesn't think GWB is the worst President in living memory?)
Now he and McCaine are calling for setting up a commission to find out Who Was Responsible. This commission will follow the money trail, and discover the guilty culprits to be none other than the dreaded...
Gnomes of Zurich!!
Then Bush will talk to various advisors and God and demand that Switzerland produce the Gnomes and hand them over to Justice. When (as is to be anticipated) the Swiss refuse, the President will call on the American Congress to move the troops from Iraq to a Nato base in the French Alps, and from there they will march victoriously through Geneva and fight their way north to Zurich, where they will search out and capture the furtive criminals in their underground palaces!
. The Gnomes must be defeated!