pedantic nuthatch

Clearly, I'm not a George Bush fan, and I'll be voting against him come November 2. But I've been asked—and not unreasonably so—just how bad would another four years of Bush be for me? The answer: Honestly? Not bad at all.

Why? Well, simply put: On paper, at least, I (and my family) are exactly the sort of people the Bushies assume everyone is (or should be): White, married, educated, well-off property owners with adequate health insurance and no reason to rely on the government for any direct need. Almost none of their policies impact this demographic in a negative way—or if they do, it's so negligible as not to matter in a practical sense.

White, married, educated, well-off, insured property owners (henceforth abbreviated to WMEWIPOs—pronounced "wimmie-wipos") don't need to worry about the tax cuts...

...I think a president should do more than look out for me, or people who, on paper at least, are just like me and mine. Not every American is a Wimmie-wipo. All Americans, however, deserve to be served by their president.

I've got it even better than Scalzi, since I'm a WUEWIPO (White Unmarried Etc.). I have no kids to be affected by the debt burden generated by Bush the Lesser's faith-based fiscal policy. Oh, perhaps another ten years of his anti-environmental policies would mean that I never see a Red-Cockaded Woodpecker (Picoides borealis) or Piping Plover (Charadrius melodus) in the wild. But that's just ticks on a life list to me.

If he were to make good on his promise to replace federal income taxes with a consumption tax, I might be hurt, because the effect of my mortgage interest deduction would change dramatically. But it's been years since I depended on that perk to keep me out of the red.