Waste! Fraud! Abuse! Bush and Cheney go on wild spending spree with taxpayers' checkbook

Excerpt: "A trillion dollars here, a trillion dollars there, and soon you’re talking real money.
But when it comes to reporting on what the Bush war legacy has cost American taxpayers, the media have been shockingly indifferent to the highest run-up in military spending since World War II. Even the devastating defense spending audit released Monday by the Government Accountability Office documenting the enormous waste in every single U.S. advanced weapons system failed to provoke the outrage it, and five equally scathing previous annual audits, deserved."

Hmmm. That sounds kind of dry and technical to me. I prefer to think of it this way:

How would feel if someone stole your debit card and your checkbook?

Now imagine that the bank allowed the thieves to overdraw your account while on a wild spending spree! They bought a few dozen iPhones, a couple Playstation 3's and bought a big screen plasma TV and overdrew your account -- but the bank didn't put a freeze on your account. It just kept allowing each new debit card purchase to go through, kept putting you further into overdraft and kept racking up more overdraft fees. And let's say these thieves were allowed to do this for about 8 years. Suddenly, before you know it, you're getting a bank statement indicating that you're now $2 trillion in debt.

Those thieves that stole your debit card and checkbook? Bush & Cheney.

Only they didn't really "steal" it exactly. They didn't need to. See, when they got elected they kind of/sort of were empowered to take loans out using our name. We being the American citizens and taxpayers. Think of it as being turned into an involuntary co-signer for someone with a compulsive spending problem. It's going to ruin your credit and bankrupt you, but there isn't much you can do about it. Only it's not just Bush and Cheney that get to use your debit card any way they want -- basically everyone in Congress can use it to. They pass that old taxpayer debit card around like a bong at a frat party. Everyone gets to take a hit.

One day you wake up, check your statement and notice that someone went out and put $81 BILLION on your card. You check the fine print and see that it was for a submarine -- to fight Al-Qaidas Navy! Had it been real-live x-ray specs ordered off the back of a comic book it couldn't be a more ridiculous purchase. But there's nothing you can do about it (until re-election time anyway). If that jackhole Sen. Joseph Lieberman wants to use your card to buy a fracking submarine to battle the dirt poor DESERT DWELLING insurgents in Iraq, well, there's not much you can do to stop him.

And WE get to pay the bill.

Bush doesn't have any money. He spent it all buying that real-life flight suit he wore for his speech. Oh! And buying that baseball team. But we are the co-signer to all the purchases he made on our joint US debit card and thus we are responsible. Oh look! There's Bush right now -- stuffing another collection notice from China into the drawer of his Oval Office desk. He sees us! He's grinning and shrugging his shoulders. Awww. Look at that face! How can you stay mad at the guy? He's just a harmless scamp with a compulsive spending problem.

Quick question: Is any of this debt dischargable? If we were lied into a "war" and we didn't really "approve" of any of these charges on our card -- can the World Bank or someone take them off? Could we declare bankruptcy as a nation and get a fresh start as we sometimes allow other (ahem) 3rd world nation to do?