to me jon kerry personifies all that is wrong with the world today pandering to special interest groups
Now THIS is funny. Let's see....
Bush passed legislation that would allow corporate polluters to police themeselves. The environmental protection was suggested but not required. Do you think a corporate polluter is going to spend money to help the environment?
VP Cheney used to be CEO of Haliburton who now has the largest government rebuilding contract in Iraq thanks to who? Seems like a huge conflict of interest to me.
Bush said the average American would receive about $1400 from his tax cuts. While that is true its very misleading. Here is an example:
Put Bill gates in a room with 10 homeless guys and they will have an average net worth of $2.74 billion.
The average tax cut for the bottom 60% of Americans was only $304, whereas the average tax cut for Americans making $1 million or more was $112,925.
Bush repealled the estate tax. Republicans demonized it by calling it the death tax and people scared people into supporting his decision. For those who dont know what the estate tax it is a tax on the worth of your estate when you die. Because of this the richest 4.500 estates recieved a tax cut equal to the poorest 142 million Americans did from his tax cut.
This isn't phantom money, and you dont have to have passed economics to understand this. When you give that much of a tax break to the rich it has to come from somewhere. It comes from your grandparents and parents social security. It comes from the social security I'll never see. It comes from environmental programs, education and after school programs, veterans programs, healthcare.
"Bush promised, "I came to this office to solve problems and not pass them on to future presidents and future generations." Yet as a direct consequence of his tax policy, over six years an American family of four will take on $52,000 more in its share of the national debt."
We are all paying for this tax cuts, the money in this country is trickling upwards, Bush is truely an anti-Robin Hood, stealing from the poor and middle class to give to the rich.
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our country economically has been in a downward spiral for years
Yes it has, and some of the above are the reasons why. Economy is stimulated by the spending of money. Give a middle class family an extra $1,000 and they are going to spend it. That money goes to a company which profits and their stock rises. When their stock rises and demand for their product of service goes up they expand. Part of expanding is providing new jobs and investing that money into other companies to accomplish the expansion. Those companies in turn get more business and can higher more employees who in turn get a paycheck that they use to buy stuff and give more money to those same companies.
If you take that money from them instead they don't have it to spend. The company doesn't get that money and demand for their product decreases along with their stock. Employees are laid off which hurts the economy even more. The only people profiting from this are those who are getting the money directly, the very rich. And in the long run they will lose too because their assest and business will decline in wealth along with the rest of the economy.
As you can see Bush is pandering to the rich.
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ill go out on a limb and say fuck europe. do we want to be more like them?
The problem with America today is that we ARE becoming more like Europe. The United States was started by a bunch of people who got fed up and said "fuck it" and came here. Now people just ignore the problem and by ignoring the problem they become part of it.
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not meant to rile you up break
Don't worry, I don't mind intellegent debate.
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to me jon kerry personifies all that is wrong with the world today pandering to special interest groups
Now THIS is funny. Let's see....
Bush passed legislation that would allow corporate polluters to police themeselves. The environmental protection was suggested but not required. Do you think a corporate polluter is going to spend money to help the environment?
VP Cheney used to be CEO of Haliburton who now has the largest government rebuilding contract in Iraq thanks to who? Seems like a huge conflict of interest to me.
Bush said the average American would receive about $1400 from his tax cuts. While that is true its very misleading. Here is an example:
Put Bill gates in a room with 10 homeless guys and they will have an average net worth of $2.74 billion.
The average tax cut for the bottom 60% of Americans was only $304, whereas the average tax cut for Americans making $1 million or more was $112,925.
Bush repealled the estate tax. Republicans demonized it by calling it the death tax and people scared people into supporting his decision. For those who dont know what the estate tax it is a tax on the worth of your estate when you die. Because of this the richest 4.500 estates recieved a tax cut equal to the poorest 142 million Americans did from his tax cut.
This isn't phantom money, and you dont have to have passed economics to understand this. When you give that much of a tax break to the rich it has to come from somewhere. It comes from your grandparents and parents social security. It comes from the social security I'll never see. It comes from environmental programs, education and after school programs, veterans programs, healthcare.
"Bush promised, "I came to this office to solve problems and not pass them on to future presidents and future generations." Yet as a direct consequence of his tax policy, over six years an American family of four will take on $52,000 more in its share of the national debt."
We are all paying for this tax cuts, the money in this country is trickling upwards, Bush is truely an anti-Robin Hood, stealing from the poor and middle class to give to the rich.
quote:
our country economically has been in a downward spiral for years
Yes it has, and some of the above are the reasons why. Economy is stimulated by the spending of money. Give a middle class family an extra $1,000 and they are going to spend it. That money goes to a company which profits and their stock rises. When their stock rises and demand for their product of service goes up they expand. Part of expanding is providing new jobs and investing that money into other companies to accomplish the expansion. Those companies in turn get more business and can higher more employees who in turn get a paycheck that they use to buy stuff and give more money to those same companies.
If you take that money from them instead they don't have it to spend. The company doesn't get that money and demand for their product decreases along with their stock. Employees are laid off which hurts the economy even more. The only people profiting from this are those who are getting the money directly, the very rich. And in the long run they will lose too because their assest and business will decline in wealth along with the rest of the economy.
As you can see Bush is pandering to the rich.
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ill go out on a limb and say fuck europe. do we want to be more like them?
The problem with America today is that we ARE becoming more like Europe. The United States was started by a bunch of people who got fed up and said "fuck it" and came here. Now people just ignore the problem and by ignoring the problem they become part of it.
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