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Kerry DRIVES ME INSANE. He's a two-faced LIAR and it seems like nobody GETS IT.
Let me quote an interview of his:
If Congress balks at the [roll back of tax cuts on those making >$200,000] you seek and you're short of cash for your [programmes dealing with health care], then what?
We would not be able to do as much on health care, and that is the choice in this race. George Bush wants to defend tax cuts yadda yadda. I say we can have [better] health care if we roll those back. That's your choice. And I believe that if I get elected, America will have made that choice.
So )*@&$&*) what? THAT'S NOT THE QUESTION! ANSWER THE QUESTION! That was the single question I wanted answered. His plans are elusively funded, and I wanted to know his back-up plan. But the snarky fellow yammers on about CHOICE!
Second problem with him: his double-timing goals with his ()&$%^)*$& campaign. On the front cover of Business Week, it says
KERRY'S
BATTLE
PLAN
>>Wooing the
middle class
>>His health-care
agenda
Do you know something? I'm not feeling very wooed! You tel me how those two things can co-exist. "Kerrycare," as it is now labelled, is Kerry's "fulcrum," as Bush's tax cuts were last election. How the )*&#$% is he to woo the middle class? By completely ignoring them while taking money from the rich to help the poor? All he has is a bigger box of bandages to fix up health care. He's got some crackpot ideas concerning
- Extending coverage to 18 million working families and singles out of 44 million uninsured. Cost: $500 billion
- Paying 75% of catastrophic illness costs. Cost: $250 billion
- Insuring small businesses and 55-64 year olds. Cost: $135 billion
So far: around $885 billion?
Then, he insists that he can cut $300 billion by moving to electronic methods of tracking diseases and prevention or some junk. Yes, of course Kerry. Let's make companies pay more money to save a teeny bit of money...$300 billion out of the $1.8 trillion spent annually.
Cost now: $585 billion?
Then he'll pay for all these expensive bandages by rolling back tax cuts. That will provide him with $650 billion, by his estimates (see my little ranting about his interview above). So we're all set!
Of course, Kerry's also promised to slash the deficit in half, reduce corporate tax rates, give $100 billion to the No Child Left Behind Act, and re-educate and re-vitalise industries that are outsourcing and fledging.
Wow, Kerry, you sure inspire confidence and trust!