Hurricane W. Wreaks Havoc Throughout Northern, Southern, Eastern, and Western Hemispheres
The most destructive force the world has ever seen, Hurricane W. (pronounced DUBYA) has caused untold billions of dollars of damage in both the United States and abroad, with even more devastation forecast as the storm ebbs and flows, flip-flops, and spasms out of control until at least 2008.
Domestically, Hurricane W. has gutted billions of dollars from Emergency Management programs, eviscerated public health and safetey, law enforcement, infrastructure improvements and countless other much-needed agencies serve the public in any healthy democracy.
A just-recently-balanced budget was the first victim of this violent storm of political cronyism and incompetence. Soon after, a rapid turn into the Enron Gulf saw the labor of thousands, perhaps millions of hardworking Americans thrown to the winds, scattered like sawdust over an oil spill.
Small towns all over the country felt the wrath of W. in their layoff notices, made-in-China products, and higher fuel prices. Few could imagine what lays in store for them in the aftermath of windfall profits for energy companies, sky-high deficits, hot-air balloon debt, and more.
Internationally, Hurricane W. has struck with and without warning at random countries worldwide with high-speed weaponry, violent fiscal policies, and erratic political behavior. Often, Hurricane W. will go in one direction, tearing thousands of lives apart, then backtrack and go a different direction entirely, with no apparent awareness of its previous course.
Just like a flattened Florida mobile home, the strong, warm, summery position the United States held in the rest of the world until 2000 was knocked down after violently spinning and twirling September 11th events to drench the country and world in a bitter downpour of greed and hot air. "This storm is more blows harder than any I've ever seen," said meteorologist Chas Michaelson, of Muncie, IN. "And sadly, there's no shelter from it anywhere."
Experts recommend a five-year supply of food, water, and ammunition—or a multibillion dollar corporation in your family's name—if you and your family hope to survive.
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J Klein is the creator of DemocracyMeansYou and occasionally writes and pens cartoons for the site. He lives in an undisclosed location in North Carolina with Dick Cheney.
DemocracyMeansYou was started as both an artistic response to the ubiquitous flag stickers after 9/11 (the THINK sticker was the impetus for the whole shebang), and a forum for liberal and progressive opinion, humor (always important), and inspiring / urging / demanding participation in the democratic process.
He has written for various publications and websites over the years, has worked as a licensed Psychiatric Technician with both the mentally ill and the developmentally disabled; worked as a mechanic for several years; worked for local government promoting ridesharing and alternative transportation in California; quantifying school accountability for California schools; and marketing writing and web design.
