The "Re-defeat Bush" movement is one thing...but
We'll have to build the people's John Kerry
Also in this issue
- Trumping trump
- Fantasies of corporate shills
- The costs of privatized war
- The run for the money
- Send an "abe" to arizona
- Corporate tax evaders
- Let's put the corruption on tv
- Whose town is it?
What the hell's happening here? Why is my bank in the tank? And my house and job? And my retirement money? Even my state's teetering on the brink of broke! Who did this to us? Fair questions, but we're not getting honest answers. 
Trumping trump
Am I the only one who wants to say to Donald Trump: Please, Donny, please take your orange-dyed, bad comb-over hairdo and your grotesquely inflated ego...and go away! "The Donald" vamps shamelessly as a hardnosed CEO on the "reality" TV show called The Apprentice. He also has a book out called Trump: How To Get Rich.
In both the show and the book, Donny poses as a very rich, successful businessman. He is rich, but he didn't get there himself. Instead, he got rich the oldfashioned way: He inherited a New York City real-estate fortune from his daddy. And as for being a business success, Trump Hotels and Casino Resorts is the only business venture he's launched on his own––and it's about to crash. Only two weeks after signing a new contract with NBC to pose as a business mogul on The Apprentice for another season, his real-life corporation announced a quarterly loss of $49 million. In its decade-long history, Trump Hotels has never been profitable; and it's now some $2 billion in debt, and Trump's own auditors have "substantial doubt" whether it can survive. .
"This has nothing to do with me," whined CEO and board chairman Donny! But investors accuse him of ineffective management, slipshod financial practices, and a lack of competitive business vision. From his own board members and creditors, the CEO is about to hear the trademark phrase he uses on his TV show: "You're fired!" It couldn't happen to a more deserving guy.