David Byrne has put the current economy and sub-prime mortgage/credit collapse into terms I can finally see clearly -- he even ventures a theory that the preceding drunken, heady bubble may have been the very reason that average working class men and women voted for a president who was so clearly a disastrous choice for anyone working for a wage or salary. I honestly never got that; why working people would vote for Bush when it seemed like it was a guarantee that your job would be outsourced and middle class taxes would get steep. When he won his first term, the first thing I did was file a New York business license and get an EIN from the IRS. I think I write off toothpaste, if I'm not mistaken. If a company pays my company ten dollars, I think I write off twenty three and show an income of negative thirteen. Fight fire with fire, I say. Tex bombs it, hires his company to rebuild it, then invoices the job for a few billion. God bless America, indeed.
