Today, about 80 people held an action in Warsaw. It started off in an ironic  way with Uncle Samantha collecting money for Poland to buy F-16s. The action was supposed to show that normal people give money to help different charities but won't give money to support war and, by and large, the public was very nasty to the war-monging american with the NATO flag. A chorus of women with George Bush's portraits sang funny war songs. Then there was a march to the presidential palace and the american embassy.

One of the different leaflets given out was this:

WAR - THE BEST SOLUTION FOR THE ECONOMY!

Everybody knows that war means millions of dollars in business - and that means jobs for the ones lucky enough to get to participate in one. (Unless of course you're on the losing side!) The arms business and all realted industries already cost, that is bring in, (depeding is you're on the spending or receiving end of the tax money) billions of dollars a year - much more if there's a war. Imagine if you owned stocks in one of those companies like Lockheed Martin - you could make a fortune! And if you make a fortune, that's good for the economy because when you've got a lot of money to spend, you can hire a gardener and a maid, and a lot more people have jobs. War makes good economic sense --- it's not just wasting money, because for every $100 we spend on war, somebody is getting rich and putting at least 10% of that money back into the economy. 

Poland should understand that war is good for them too, because for every $100 they spend on war, they can expect at least $1-2 dollars to come back into the economy. (Of course you can't expect this system to work as effieciently as in the US yet.) The best thing though is that war can help to alleviate your problem with unemployment. It's a sin that so many people are sitting around at home doing nothing when they can be fighting for the american way of life. First, you can expect to send some people over to Iraq to play a heroic role; they'll probably die, but then you won't have to worry about them coming back and being bums or car thieves or anything. At least they'll have done something meaningful with their lives. Secondly, there will be plenty of jobs for those who aren't fit for fighting. Since we are equal opportunity employers, we especially encourage women to apply for these positions. American soldiers are particularly fond of Polish nurses (but only the young ones), and we'd pay them more than you do to work in Iraq, so they'd be better off. And of course, after the war they're be one hell of a mess, and everybody knows that Polish cleaning ladies are the best in the world. We can even hire older women to do those jobs (nobody looks at cleaning ladies). Don't you know somebody in your life, maybe a mother or aunt, who'd be better off with a job in Iraq than sitting around the house all day doing nothing?

Show the government that you have more common sense than it does when it comes to economics. (And you DO have better sense than those damned ex-communists!) Your contribution shows that you care about F-16s, that you care about bombing the hell out of Iraq and that you wanna make a bloody  fortune on the war industry --- just like us!

American-Polish Friendship Association, F-16