What's Wrong With This Sentence?

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency already is working to simplify regulations to encourage expansion at refineries, Bush said in his speech.

Plenty.

The EPA is simplifying regulations?

The EPA is encouraging expansion of refineries?

Bush "said" in his speech.

We all know that Bush "says" truly weird things when he's a'speechifyin', and no one in the mainstream media seems to care. After all, it's just the president of The United States being an idiot again.

And he's not confessing to his complete corporate pirate takeover of the once-pristine EPA, either.

Hm. Strangely enough, this nonsense sentence fits into yesterday's military base closing announcement.

Go figure.

Even though his oil refinery toadies have no interest in the Bush plan to use defunct military bases as their new "expanded refinery venues" (they'd rather build their own brand spanking new & outrageously expensive refineries, thank you very much), George W.'s flying monkeys know what his hand-dipped audiences want to hear: "I'll save you money!"

Like the EPA "facts," the "I'll save you money" lies to the gullible and stupid (CARRIED LIVE BY YOUR TEE VEE WHITE HOUSE STENOGRAPHERS) remain mostly unchallenged.

George W.'s EPA-approved base closing plan will supposedly save $48 billion OVER A 20 YEAR PERIOD (Great way to skirt responsibility).

That's $2.4 billion per year.

But Wait! There's an initial start-up (decommissioning) cost of $24 billion, which has to come from somewhere... like, say, YOU, THE TAXPAYERS.

This is beginning to sound like one of those scams where you send $4000 to the scammer's bank, and the scammer promises to pay you $10000.

Supposedly, the Bush plan will save a recurring cost of $5.5 billion per year.

Toss in this little fact: if you live, work, or own a business near one of the decommissioned bases, how much more money will Bush's plan put in your pocket? I watched what happened when a nearby air base enjoyed the famous Reagan "base cutbacks." The town dried up and blew way. People lost homes, jobs, and businesses to foreclosure. The public schools lost millions in funding, and the base finally closed permanently.

And don't forget the inevitable taxpayer cash/tax incentives to refinery/construction companies.

If BushCo math makes sense to you, please explain it to me.

I'm not even going to get into the antics of our BushCo/Orwell EPA. Too depressing.

Truly heavy sigh.