No longer Bush's fault

Dear editor:

What will our grandchildren inherit?

When you buy a used car with a bad transmission from someone, you knew it was bad when you bought it. But you had a plan to fix it, so you went after it anyway. Now that it's yours to have and to hold, you entrusted it to a fly-by-night shop that pumps it full of stop-leak, charges you three grand, eagerly awaits your next visit and fixed nothing in spite of the money spent.

You can't blame the previous owner for this because you knew about the problem to begin with, you wanted the car anyway and chose this shady shop to fix it for you.

Pushing on now, you don't change the oil but add more dirty oil as needed. When the engine seizes up, it's your fault, not the last guy's. When you hire a band of known car thieves to rebuild it then take all the money they can get from you, strip the car and leave you with the frame, it's not the previous owner's fault, either.

Then you trust a bookie to handle your money, a pro-illegal to watch over your property, apologize to those who spit at you behind your back while you blame your neighbors across the street for not siding with you and follow your lead.

Somewhere in time, when your car is sitting on blocks, stripped with a fried motor, your checkbook is empty, your house has been robbed and you're nearly out of allies, you have to realize the "tyranny" problem you "inherited" might have been Bush's (and your own Congress), but the rest of this mess is yours, pal.

When you take a trillion dollar deficit and in just six months turn it into nearly five trillion and more on the way, that "thing we inherited" doesn't hold water anymore. It was you that wanted this war to begin with.

In an ultra-rare moment of truth, it was Biden himself who reminded us all that, "This is no time for on-the-job training." Too bad we didn't listen, eh?

So what will our grandchildren "inherit?" Whatever the price tag is, we'll all still be reminded of one certainty: It's still Bush's fault. Always.

Mike Bradbury