-Washington DC, June 3, 2004
In an unexpected announcement Thursday, CIA Director George Tenet made public his resignation. Tenet has been subjected to draconian scrutiny by leftist elements since he assumed the directorship seven years ago, which reached an almost witch-hunt like crescendo after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
Tenet took the bullet of blame unapologetically, protecting our beloved President and his cohorts as any true patriot would. Sadly, this entailed losing his job, but our sources assure us that he will seek a more personal sort of growth after his resignation takes effect in July, turning to other more artistic pursuits, such as insider trading, electoral fraud, and macrame.
He will be missed.
Today the
New York Times featured a prominent story under the headline “The Price of Rice Soars, and Haiti’s Hunger Deepens.� As billionaires, we all know soaring prices mean soaring profits, and though the misleading headline suggests otherwise, we can all rest assured that the free market is now putting Haiti on the road to greater prosperity. Despite the good news, troubling questions remain. What caused Haiti’s rice prices to stay artificially low for so long? What force kept the invisible hand of the free market from correcting the problem earlier? For answers, we need to look further.
The Times quotes Haitian businessmen as saying “Mr. Aristide’s government kept the price of rice down through corruption.� The Times attributes the dangerously low prices to the practices of at least one Aristide “crony� and quotes the new minister of commerce, Danielle St.-Lot as saying “it was kind of a monopoly� under Aristide.
Clearly, the recently-ousted president of Haiti had acted improperly in keeping prices low. In addition, he compromised the very meaning of the words “corruption, cronyism, and monopoly.� While we are happy that Haiti’s markets are now free, we feel that Aristide should be held accountable for his misuse of corruption.
(Actually written by Skip S. Tate-Tax)
