Bush’s Middle Class Tax Hike
Bush’s Middle Class Tax Hike
Rolling back massive tax-cuts for millionaires is off the table, but the Bush administration has no qualms about raising taxes on average Americans. The 2006 budget President Bush submitted to Congress yesterday imposes $5.3 billion in new, regressive taxes. (They are conveniently listed in table 18-3 on page 317 of the Analytic Perspectives supplement to the budget). The administration’s budget contains new taxes that will increase the price of a six-pack of beer, an airline ticket and prescription drugs for veterans. Meanwhile, the budget cuts funding for education, public health and environmental protection and includes $1.4 trillion in new tax cuts for the wealthy. Welcome to Bushonomics.
Update: table 18-3 appears on page 317 when viewed with Adobe Acrobat, but on page 305 of the actual document.
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As Bush will be going lame we should start painting his failed ideas as Republican ideas, not just Bush’s ideas. So instead of Bushonomics why not call it Neoconomics, or some such?
February 8th, 2005 at 9:22 amI hope the slight majority of Americans who voted for Bush feel the pain of his poor decisions, chaotic administration and utter lack of sense where it hurts most, in their families and in their wallets. If this is what it takes for the “silent majority” to wake up and smell the roses, then so be it. After all, it is your dollars that are being squandered, your children going off to war, your rights that are being squelched and your country which is well on the way to no longer being the land of the free.
February 8th, 2005 at 11:31 amIt would be difficult to trust any economic plan proposed by Bush after his disastrous tax cuts for the wealthy and the problems that has caused. His Social Security “reform” plan is simply one to destroy Social Security. That is the goal–not reform, not preservation, not continuation. Total destruction of the Social Security system is what Bush and the neocons are after.
February 8th, 2005 at 11:41 amThe “Ownership Society” is nothing new. A notable example of this economic policy from the past was called “The Middle Ages.” I simply cannot accept that if the wealthy are ok, their prosperity will benefit us all. Don’t Trickle On Me.
February 8th, 2005 at 11:51 amThe Neocons want a federal gov’t so poor it can provide nothing for anyone – it ideally would perform no functions other than tax collection, national defense, regulation of interstate commerce and policing. Currently, ‘Homeland Security’ is vastly underfunded, nuclear plants, ports and our food supply are vulnerable, but hey, taxpayer’s millions can be squandered on ‘ignorance-only’ sex ed programs for teens, tax cuts for the super-rich and corporations, privatization schemes designed to ruin Social Security, vouchers for parochial schools, slush funds for Halliburton, pay-offs for “journalists” and Viagra for Medicare recipients…what kind of priorities are these? Bush gives a lot of lip service to “protecting the vulnerable” but then cuts all the funding for programs that do exactly that. Some values, huh.
February 8th, 2005 at 11:53 amMr. Bush said that he is the war president and lied to us and took our young men and women into the Iraq War. Many died and many more wounded are home and coming home without arm and leg. Now Bush want them to pay for drugs and what else?!
February 8th, 2005 at 11:53 amThere will be more crimes in our streets when Bush is cutting down on educational programs and housings for poors.
I knew that we are heading for a dark age when he was elected. It is sad , sad day for all Americans!
I am now convinced that this is a silent coup. If this budget is passed with permanent tax cuts, this country will regress into a Serfdom. I am beginning to believe that the PNAC already has plans on how to sell this new “democracy” to the people.
February 8th, 2005 at 12:01 pmI am saddened and disgusted by the actions of the Bush administration. He has shown time and again he only cares about the rich. His legacy is shaping up to be one of the most pitiful in American History. I like many Americans am ashamed and embarrassed to have this pitiful excuse of a man in the White House.
February 8th, 2005 at 12:03 pmBush deals in perception, not reality – ‘Support the Troops’ is only an empty slogan to them. 1 out of 5 soldiers will return from Iraq with a psychological disorder, 10,000+ are wounded and will need care for life, and there is no end in sight.
February 8th, 2005 at 12:07 pmTotal destruction of the Social Security System is not the only thing Bush and the neocons are after. They are seeking to destroy the entire Democrat party, thereby eliminating any opposition to their complete domination of the political system. Look at what they did to Tom Daschle. Look at what they are trying to do to Harry Reid. In his State of the Union speech he said he wanted to work with the Democrats but his party bosses want something different. They say that the Dems were all for Social Security reform during Clinton’s administration but they don’t say that the reforms were not the same as those proposed by Bush. People, wake up and get yourself educated on this and the 2006 budget put forth by Bush and his henchmen.
February 8th, 2005 at 12:10 pmOne weapon of mass destruction most certainly wasn’t in Iraq; it’s in the White House… has a slow fuse which was set back in the year 2000 and when it finally blows will prove itself to be the most devasting force for opposing the forward march of progressive thinking in human history. George W. Bush and his cronies are willully affecting all mankind, and it’s quite possible that mankind isn’t going to survive it. So a question for all you religious-minded folk out there – exactly what does that make HIM, I wonder?
February 8th, 2005 at 12:10 pmThe “rich get richer” scheme the Bush Group will undoubtly push thru again is very sad indeed. Hey !! When was the last time the “rich get richer’ group gave the average middle American any help be it thru generous donations or thru thier corporations in the form of bonues or raises. They get plenty of thie own perks as it is, why do they need more ?? Like I stated yesterday and will state tomorrow and the day after and so, they’re all theives and liars. Moral values, please, let me up !!!!
February 8th, 2005 at 12:14 pmI was bemused by the president’s comments during his news conference yesterday, comments to the effect that the administration only wishes to fund programs which are shown to be effective and work. Yet this morning, I read that funding for abstinence-only education programs is not being cut. In fact, the funding has been increased another $38 million for a program that every study and examination has found positively does *not* work, even in his own home state of Texas. The administration’s “moral” agenda is quite clear when they add millions in funding for a conservative, ineffective educational program and yet cuts the funding for police from $600 million to a mere $60 million. What kind of homeland security goal is that cut reaching?
February 8th, 2005 at 12:26 pmI don’t mean to hog time here, but Post #7 by Marilyn flags something veeeery important: HAS a coup actually taken place in our society and we’re all just too ignorant or complacent to recognize it? If you are unfamiliar with the PNAC (which Marilyn mentions) then get hip to them, and fast. The “Party for a New American Century” is no joke, folks. Things that they advocate right on their website set the stage for many of the policies, both domestic AND foreign that the Bushites are actively implementing as we watch. THEY BRAZENLY HOPE FOR “5 SIMULTANEOUS THEATERS OF WAR”. Apparently, this will help “democratize” the Middle East. Right. Just like it’s doing in Iraq, which is about to become something more akin to an Ayatollah-run Iran. And look at all of the “double-speak” perpetrated by the thinkers in this administration. The 2-word placards for every public occasion, the most famous of which would have to be “MISSION ACCOMPLISHED”. George Orwell and his vision of Big Brother in 1984 was simply off by 16 years. But to those of you who are still true patriots out there, I have 2 pieces of advice: 1 – Question Authority and 2 – Do NOT fall asleep. I don’t think there’s time anymore…
February 8th, 2005 at 12:33 pmTo call Bush’s budget obscene barely scratches the surface. No doubt his trusted (paid?) media bloviaters will be out in force to convince the simple-minded that these cuts are necessary and, by the way, please don’t look behind the curtain where we have a trillion dollar giveaway going on for the rich (and don’t worry about it, because under the Bush system, rich is something you will never be). The neediest have little political clout, and so naturally Bush doesn’t mind letting them take the brunt of his cuts: their programs, their benefits, their future, can all be sacrificed for the good of the rich. Besides, someone has to work in the maquiladoras…
February 8th, 2005 at 12:34 pmPresident Bush’s 2006 budget released Monday aims to find $ 12 billion to pay down the national debt by forcing federally owned electricity wholesalers including the Bonniville Power Administration to charge market rates. This goes against BPA that requires the goverment to sell electricity generated by the massive array of dams on the Columbia River at cost.
So, the tax cuts are indeed for the rich once again as my electric rates ($ 300 +)will be going up 20% per year for the next three years. It is also a thinly disguised retaliation by Enron for the state of Washington’s (Snohmish county)suit to ward off Enrons pursuit of forcing the State to pay for contracts that have already been proven to be nothing more than fraud.
This Administration has not investigated or have buried Enron’s fraud and has forced the state to investigate Enron as this Administration continues it’s fleecing of the American middle class and poor.
By the way this is the same Enron who was meeting with this Administration behind closed doors to form the national energy policy.
February 8th, 2005 at 12:56 pmAs I listened to a discussion of Bush’s budget “requests” this morning it came to me that this is the Poverty President. Now ALL but the super rich, whose tax cuts we pay for, can be counted among the impoverished as Bush destroys the hopes and dreams of ALL Americans. Calculate how many jobs have gone overseas–these workers do not contribute to Social Security nor do the corporations they work for . . . for a pittance. What a systematic way to destroy the country we were raised to believe was fair. The fare has become way too high!
February 8th, 2005 at 12:57 pmI am utterely amazed that a so called Christian man can tell so many untruths. We are going back to the days of the robber barons and Herbert Hoover. I really would not wan to relive those days.
February 8th, 2005 at 12:58 pmWell there really is no surprise here that Bush is following right in the footsteps of the good ole’ Gipper by transfering the tax burden unfairly on to the shoulders of the middle class. It is a sad time when the Republcan Party is effectively winning its real “War” the one against the middle class of America. Never mind Osama they have a middle class to destroy first and foremost. I thank God everyday that we still have leaders like John Kerry and, Ted Kennedy who in all honesty are still fighting for genuine American values like the ones in their current bills they are trying to pass.
February 8th, 2005 at 1:09 pmThanks George. We and our chidren’s children shall forever be in thy debt. Amen . .
Kenneth L. Lovisa, CPA
February 8th, 2005 at 1:12 pmBush and the Republican party are certainly trying their best to erase all modern progression that is responsible for creating the strong middle class that we have enjoyed for decades.
February 8th, 2005 at 1:16 pmOkay, I’m going out on a limb now. But look at the larger pattern here for a moment: All three branches of government are controlled by the same party, squabbling or not. They are bleeding the middle class dry and rewarding the “feudal lord” wealthy few amongst us. They are imposing their doctrines of acceptable behavior on us all, willing to revise the very Constitution itself if they have to to enforce their edicts. Bush, in an interview with Charles Gibson trapped himself by admitting the following: he felt that Muslims and Christians all worship the same God, though by different names and means. But when asked by Gibson if Bin Laden and Zarqawi ALSO prayed to that same God, Bush emphatically stated that he believed that THEY prayed to a FALSE god. By saying that, it instantly branded all fundamentalist Muslims who have similar religious beliefs to Bin Laden and Zarqawi as deluded… believers in a “false god”. Hey… I absolutely abhor what Bin Laden and Zarqawi have done… but for the President of the United States to effectively label them and any who believe as they do to be no more than devil-worshippers is ASKING for a permanent religious war. Bush is driven by his religious beliefs just as THEY are. So while posters on this board are all justifiably concerned about the seemingly more pressing issues that affect our wallets and pocketbooks, Bush et al are pulling us and our children into a much deeper quagmire that is rapidly spreading throughout the world. Case in point: if things continue to spiral out of control militarily because of these war-hungry knw-it-alls, the draft will probably come roaring back under the pretext that the country has no choice. And who will be the cannon fodder? The middle and lower classes. And after Bush starts appointing more neocons to the Supreme Court, would it really surprize you when “because of the overpowering need to protect the Homeland” an Amendment is brougfht forth advocating the ability for a President to hold office more than just 2 times? Perhaps, under “extenuating circumstances, until the present crises are resolved”? Yeah… I know I sound like a conspiracy theory nutcase. But look at what has ALREADY happened in our country on his watch that just 5 YEARS AGO YOU’D HAVE ALL AID COULD NEVER HAPPEN. Well… it has, and continues. Because despite all of their puffed-up chest and claims to the contrary, NOTHING is sacred now. NOTHING. I can only hope that I’m wrond, DEAD wrong, because I have young kids that I am now worried about for all the WRONG reasons. I used to think I lived in the Land of the Free. Now I’m not so sure. Sorry for the obscenely long post, folks.
February 8th, 2005 at 1:21 pmBush is making war on the middle class and poor? Time to make him and his neo-con buddies accountable for the destruction of the American economy. Let’s start with the rollback of the tax cuts to the rich! Let’s end by impeaching the worst president in history. Enough is enough!
February 8th, 2005 at 1:23 pmI believe the first comment in this series is right on the mark. The ideology that Bush espouses has been around since the 30s…at least those points that FDR stimulated. Other items have been argued since Washington. When you look at Bush, see the GOP. Remember that what the king would kill, first he ridicules.
February 8th, 2005 at 1:30 pmThank you Scott and, Marilyn for the heads up on “PNAC” I wil research that. You know the more I learn about the policies of Cheney Bush and, the rest of the Conservatives , more and, more the word “fascism” comes to mind.
February 8th, 2005 at 1:30 pmwhere is the outrage?
February 8th, 2005 at 1:38 pmenough with the happy talk coming from this administration. their policies will make this great country a 3rd world country.
when will people wake up???
Hey Scott I hear you man loud and clear maybe the nuts of rightwing media both on television and radio might think you are some conspiracy theorist and, maybe the damn so called “Patriot Act” might think so but, if calling “a spade a spade” makes you that than so am I. I refuse to have children with my fiancee until these Conservatives are out of power that might be extreme but who can blame me.
February 8th, 2005 at 1:54 pmPlease, read the book by John Perkins, ” Confessions of the Economic Hit Man.”
February 8th, 2005 at 2:10 pmThis book will awaken us and learn the truth and prevent future collapse.
I personally agree with the bulk of comments above. One of my largest worries is how this budget fits in with rarely-mentioned Grover Norquist – head of “Americans for Tax Reform” whose tenets have been embraced by Bush and many GOP’ers in Congress. I believe their ultimate goal is to turn us back to the “robber baron” era of U.S.history in the 19th century – a real example of a two-class society!
February 8th, 2005 at 2:13 pmThe man is unchecked with power; he has cowed the press, united his chorus of pundits, blinded 51% of the public, rewards his friends (Robin Hood in reverse) and is reaching into the future with more of the same. What will it take to stop this madman?
February 8th, 2005 at 2:21 pmI just cannot fathom that, rather than roll back any of the gratuitous tax handouts for the wealthy, Shrub now intends to give $1.4 trillion in brand new tax cuts for the wealthy. Suppose his “god” told him to do that, too? Every hour brings a whole new outrage with this fella.
February 8th, 2005 at 2:53 pmFirst, no lower class person pays anyones taxes.. ever. Because (and I KNOW) lower income classes get back more than they pay in… Period. Been there. After reading these posts, no wonder there is no responsibility left, on the left… its always some one elses fault. Oh the neocons… ewww. Many things I disagree with on the right no doubt.. but at least its not Communism.. (Stalin) or Socializm (Hitler).. wake up guys.
February 8th, 2005 at 3:15 pmI’m new to this board. Evidently, I’m as “paranoid” as the rest of you; however, I don’t call it paranoia, I call it reality.
February 8th, 2005 at 3:17 pmI fully agree that they want to eliminate the Democratic Party, along with democracy as we know it. The posting above is correct; that’s their goal.
I did want to add one thing that I haven’t seen in the 31 posted comments: the religious rights’ belief that Armegeddon is coming (why they are pro-Israel yet don’t want to see the mid-east peace plan work), followed by the Rapture which will save them and the rest of the ‘believers,’ and will spirit them away, while the rest of us perish in a fiery death. The administration doesn’t give a hoot about us, only about big corporations and their rich cronies – no matter whether ill-gotten (think Bernie Kerik), or earned. While they wait, we are their soldiers and slaves and they live grandly at our expense. When the Rapture comes, the earth will be annihilated, so why bother taking care of it? Hey, we’re all going to die when Jesus returns, so why take care of us, either? We are expendible.
Think about the fact that the people who are in power really believe that the Rapture is going to happen, then think about how social programs are being gutted, the poor and elderly are being cast aside, and the environment is being pillaged. Think about how our shores have not been secured, how funding for law enfocement has been cut, and how our deficit has ballooned (while Bush has signed every spending bill that’s been put before him), and tell me I’m wrong.
Please, please, please; someone tell me I’m wrong!!!!
Izzy Miles
We’ve found out how sly the neoconservatives can be, even to the point of making people in their own party increasingly nervous. Saddly though, it’s still the party line. I’ve glad I’m an Independent. Personally, I’m sick of both parties. Somewhere along the line, they’re scratching each other’s backs. George W. Bush did not happen overnight. This has been planned for a long time. I’d hazzard a guess of, before Clinton. It takes time and much, much planning. You have to start putting things in motion to give you the results you want. Which is what they did. I’m not sure GW was the first choice, but somehow he got the part.
Many of us, feel disillusioned, disappointed, angry, betrayed, so on and so on. One of the things that works well for this Admin. is that we’re spread all over this country, and we’re not working together in unison. We’re fractured, small groups here, smaller groups there. Okay, there’s alot we can’t do, but what can we do, what options are open to us. First, don’t depend on any party or parties. Personally, I think they are over-rated, and out-dated. They have their own personal agendas, which aren’t necessarily the same as ours.
February 8th, 2005 at 3:18 pmWe have to go back to the grassroots movement. We have to take responsiblity for change, if we want to see a better future. I will admit this government has forgotten, ‘by the people, for the people’. Too many have turned Washington into their own little goldmine.
So where do we start? First there is the ’see no evil, hear no evil and speak no evil’ main stream media. These are the same people who benefit from GW’s policies and tax cuts. Would you bite the hand that feeds you? Well, neither would they. To get their attention, you have to hit them where it hurts, their pocketbook. Nothing gets a person’s attention any better than to start losing money. So stop buying their papers, listening to their TV stations, start boycotting. Do a writing campaign. That’s what the Christian Coalition does, when it doesn’t like something, it reads, hears or sees on TV.
There are a lot more of us out there than there are of them. Basically, you have a very small percentage of people at the top, who depend on all the people at the bottom. So what happens when the bottom that’s supporting the top, steps away? The top falls. The top depends on the support of the ones underneath.
Another thing to try is to remember, your senators and representatives, have to come back to their respective states and face the people there. Start looking at their voting records, make them accountable. Demand answers. Regardless of who they are in Washington, they still need the people back home to keep them in office. That puts some power back into your hands.
As much as I would like to see the headlines, ‘Voting Fraud Proven, Bush Gets Pink Slipped�, it ain’t going to happen. They didn’t come this far, to lose. We already know how far they’ve gone, how low they will stoop, and to what ends they will go to win. Plus, they’ve had 4 years to put the their people into the right places.
Well, I hope I’ve given you food for thought, and maybe you’ll come up with ideas of how to bring the power back to the people. It’s important to keep talking, keep brainstorming, out of it can come some great ideas Don’t let them make you think you’re powerless, that’s what they want. If you’re focused on one thing, then you’re not being a thorn in their side somewhere else. It’s a diversion on their part, to keep you from looking at the whole picture. Ask any military person about diversion tactics. It does work! And yes, I did grow up during the 60’s.
Listen to us all: …”unchecked with power”… “robber baron era”… “fascism comes to mind”…” someone has to work in the maquilador”. And the absolute killer, #26 by Kevin O’Neill, “…”where is the outrage?” and “…when will people wake up??? ”
February 8th, 2005 at 3:19 pmTHAT is the salient point here: it IS up to US to wake up. This country is being snatched from under our very noses while the rest of the world watches. Under Bush, the US is the only industrialized nation to not ratify the Kyoto Accord on global warming. Why? Money. Under Bush, we’ve spent over 200 billion in Iraq, lost 1400 young Americans, killed UNTOLD tens of thousands of Iraqis and all dfor reasons as plentiful and shifting as the deserty sands because just like being out in the sun to long, it’s all a MIRAGE… hiding the true reason for being over there. Democracy for the Iraqis? Bullsh1t. A mere by-product. It’s about control of oil and money, pure and simple. And in the meantime, now it’s been revealed that Bremer “lost track” of nine BILLION DOLLARS over there? We’re supposed to trust our government that puts HIM in charge and he loses 9 billion dollars?! Please. My boss would fire me if I lost nine DOLLARS of his money. So what the hell is actually going on here? This is my theory: we look dfown on looters, right, as they smash their way into electronics stores and gut them of everthing, don’t we? I’m BLACK and I’m saying this. We all watch, horrified… ready to condemn the “criminals” ripping off their own neighborhoods, the shopkeepers in their own communities as they rampagr thru the streets, taking everything that’s not nailed down. Using the opportunity, be it a blackout, the Rodney King beating, whatever. It doesn’t matter. It’s basic human nature; sometimes rooted in outrage, sometimes it’s simply acting on impulse. And it’s a disturbing thing to witness… isn’t it? Well guess what, folks? WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK WE’RE ALL SEEING RIGHT NOW?! The whole COUNTRY is being robbed right before our eyes, in the biggest show of “looting” that’s ever been perpetrated in history. The Nazis were the worst example of human indecency and immoral behavior that the world has ever seen, weren’t they. BUT THEY ARE BEING TOPPED, right now. Because we, AS A NATION, are all being raped, herded into the modern-day workcamps of poverty and exploited by the rich and powerful to do as we are told and SOLD. And the consequences of resistance are getting higher and higher. Look at the Patriot Act. Do you realize that that legislation past… and I don’t think there’s a single member of the Congress or Senate that actually READ ALL OF IT. They don’t even know what they passed… and neither do WE. And they’ve just confirmed Alberto Gonzales as the TOP LAWYER IN THE COUNTRY. The very man who helped craft ways around the Geneva Convention. He’s supposed to UPHOLD the law… but this is the guy that the Bushites are CHAMPIONING to us all. SELLING to us all. And he’s in. God help us. Condi? Impugn her integrity?! She did it to HERSELF. But SHE’S in, too. God help us. But that’s just the point I’m trying to make here. God can’t help us; we have to help ourselves. So if YOU’RE awake noe, wake someone up who isn’t. And pass it on. Because a coup HAS taken place here… and we are a nation at war. The 2nd Civil War. And it’s right here, at home. So WAKE… UP. NOW.
If people would deluge thier congressmen about thier feelings on this President and remind them that there will be an election in two years we just might get through the next four years. I hate to think George can make a liar out of Abe about fooling people.
February 8th, 2005 at 3:25 pmScott, you dont know anything about hunger, poverty or war. It is obvious. I love that we have two side to issues, so that facts and perspectives can be raised. I am a veteran, and have struggled for my next sandwich. So dont imagine what it feels like to defend freedom. Dont imagine what a poor fellow on the street needs and preach about it. And NEVER compare the murder of millions to a tax policy. I am against the Patriot act myself.. but I refuse to sell my soal for a crust of bread…. from you, or anyone.
February 8th, 2005 at 3:30 pmNancy L., you are absolutely on point. Grassroots is the way to make it happen. Personally, I need to control and channel my rage into something productive so that what energy I have works in a positive fashion. You make very good sense.
February 8th, 2005 at 3:35 pmYou know, I am surprised that they think they could sneak tax hikes through, considering that they pander at every opportunity to fiscal conservatives with the whole “read my lips” business.
February 8th, 2005 at 3:35 pmI have read all of the above comments and am also disgusted with what is happening in our once great nation. I fear like the rest of you but is there anything that we can actually do to stop this craziness?
February 8th, 2005 at 3:43 pmI believe that the folks who voted for Bush really need to open their eyes and assess what they voted for. Is this what they truely wanted? A system that is so broke it will take a very long time to fix it? if it ever will be fixable once Bush is done?
I shudder to think what will be left after these next 4 long years.
I don’t understand why not one investigative journalist or major media–has not looked into how much this government has grown since Bush took office. Think of all the NEW departments that have been put in place like the two new ones at the Pentagon alone, so that they can do an end-run around the CIA and FBI, and Congress. Cheney put into place another new department when his daughter needed a job, quite some time ago. I think she since has left that position–not doing such a great job or something. All these new departments have staff, supplies, etc. that WE are paying for. Has Congress been in on the appropriations for these things? And let’s not forget about the TAP program that the felons, Casper Weinberger or Poindexter, had started developing a massive database to spy on all Americans. I forget now which one it was. But he was told to step down after the famous gambling idea he had. But I understand his staff are ALL still there–doing what? I just can’t understand why no one has investigated how big this government has gotten. Remember, it’s always the Democrats who are accused of “BIG Government.”
February 8th, 2005 at 4:02 pmAlso, Bush just said that money had to be spent wisely, or not spent at all, right? What about all that PORK that he went along with, saying it was all within HIS BUDGET figures, so it was all right. What about the Pentagon budget, which is so out-of-control that it can NOT be audited? But we should just keep throwing more money in there, right? Even though there is NO accountability on how it is spent! And what about the 8.8 BILLION dollars that has been “lost” in Iraq, which no one can account for? Send MORE money there for reconstruction so they can lose some more? When are the American people going to stand together and demand accountability?
“…Think about the fact that the people who are in power really believe that the Rapture is going to happen” from Izzy, #34
Izzy, did you know that James Watts, then Secretary of the Interior under Reagan was once asked what his overall philosophy was regarding environmental concerns. He shrugged it all off by simply saying, “…Jesus will come when the last tree falls”. THAT’S reassuring, isn’t it?
February 8th, 2005 at 4:03 pmAs abhorant as this administration and it’s policies are, I am as much appalled by the pathetic response of the opposition party. If the Democrats do not have the huevos to stand up and be counted, then Scott may have a point – we have to help ourselves.
February 8th, 2005 at 4:14 pmWelp, as a futuristic progressive all my life, I get to finally see The Fourth Reich in action. And as the old saying goes, the scoundrels hide behind the flag. Heck, this gang hides behind the red and white (check out The Crusades) flag of the fundamentalist religious Christians, too. All that baloney about ‘a vote for Kerry will get your Bibles stolen/confiscated.’ You wouldn’t believe the gullibles who fell for that one. That’s Karl Rove for ya. He follows his mentor (who’s rotting in some sort of ‘hell’ I hope), Lee Atwater, to the max. I’m sure Lee is very proud of his Honors Student.
February 8th, 2005 at 4:44 pmI personally think there should be another “Boston Tea Party” type action, where everyone would refuse to send in their taxes by April 15th, unless and until this government got rid of ALL the PORK and the obscene WASTE in our government. I personally think it could almost balance the budget!! If you want to see some nervous politicians sit up and take notice–take an action like this by the masses of Americans who are concerned about how our government is being run. You saw the people in the Ukraine take action when they saw a fraudulent election taking place. You saw the action that the Russian seniors just took–marching in the streets–over their benefits. Where are the American people? We don’t have honest and fair elections here–especially using electronic, corporate-owned voting machines, who control the counting of those votes. Where’s the outrage? You don’t have fair and equal rights for all, when a few so-called Christian leaders can dictate discrimination on those they don’t agree with. You don’t have freedom of religion, when those same people are allowed to dictate which religion–or none– should be recognized and what “God.” You don’t have freedom of speech when you can be arrested for something you are protesting against. You don’t have the right to be in the audience to hear your President or Vice-President speak, unless you sign a “loyalty” pledge and have not been associated with an opposition party. You don’t have freedom of our “public” airwaves when certain media conglomerates can CENSOR what will be allowed on major networks, and what will be banned–such as: the Reagan Movie, Saving Pvt. Ryan, Nightline when they showed pictures and named the war-dead up to that point as a memorial to them, etc.. You don’t have freedom from censorship when the Executive branch of OUR government can ban any pictures taken of the coffins coming off the planes at Dover AF Base–because that would show the American people the real horror of war. You don’t have freedom of the press when reporters can be FIRED for showing those coffins–or can be admonished or fired because they said something against this administration. You don’t have freedom of the press when reporters have to “watch” what they say or ask of the President in a news conference for fear of losing ‘access.’ You don’t have freedom of the press when the only talk-show host heard in Iraq by our military is Rush Limbaugh and the only TV channel is Fox!! Wow, now those guys are getting a fair and balanced outlook on things, right? Does anyone care about any of this?
February 8th, 2005 at 4:50 pmI’ll never forget when Ross perot put it all in perspective. He said that WE own our government and that those people in Washington work for US–not the other way around. We pay their salaries. They have to answer to US. And there’s the problem. We, the people, are not holdjng their feet to the fire. They need to be shown who the boss is.
Bombard your congressmen and senators and let them know how you feel. I agree that we are all being sold a bill of goods that is totally phony. Why can’t the people making over $250,000 give up the tax cuts that Bush put in place? Is there no common decency left in this country? Apparently not as long as George Bush is in office. He is so stupid that I can’t believe that the people don’t see it. He is just a pawn in someone’s hands, either Dick Cheney or Karl Rove or both together, I think, because I don’t think Bush is smart enough to come up with a lot of this stuff. Just listen to his “off the cut” remarks. They are always so lame!!!!
So bombard your congressmen and senators and let them know how you feel. And if they are all republicans as in my case, write to the democratic leaders in congress and the Senate to let them know how you feel. And don’t forget to take part in the Democratic Party in your own state and plan how to defeat the Republicans in the next election!!!!!
February 8th, 2005 at 5:07 pmCouple of things. First, we really need to stop calling them CONSERVATIVES. Conservative, in no way, fits the Bush administration or congress. The proper name should be RADICALS. Any group, determined to undermine 100 years of progress (since Teddy
Roosevelt), deserves the title RADICAL.
From Teddy Roosevelt to Dwight Eisenhower (Republicans/Conservatives), the US has moved in a forward direction. Kennedy and Johnson continued to carry the progressive banner. Things have been going down hill, ever since. With the exception of Carter, who tried to get us out of debt (we wouldn’t hear of that, so we canned him right quick, huh?), and Clinton, who, in his official capacity as our leader, left office giving us something to brag about; we were working with a surplus. Hooray!
What perplexes me is that the very people who jumped on the Bush bandwagon (those Heartland of America folks) are the very people Bush is going to bite, now that he doesn’t have to worry about running again in ‘08. I mean, now were all in the same boat (pardon me, except for the millionaires and billionaires).
The Bush team has RADICALLY changed our direction and until States with current Republican elected officials begin to wake up and see what’s going on and throw out people like Tom DeLay and his ilk, we’re just going to have to suck it up and bear the bad (Bush) times. And, the next four years are going to lay plenty of that onto the middle class.
It is my fairly learned opinion that the Bush voters decided they liked what he had to say, not to mention his air of sincerity and that was it. “This guy’s gonna’ do us right” they mistakenly concluded. They then closed their eyes, went about their business and didn’t or couldn’t be bothered to look at the fine print (to see Bushonomics at work). Or, like Bush, they did not bother to read the papers, where much of the fine print was located, for all the world to see.
Not to be crass, but I believe many of the Heartland folks, who are nonetheless, registered voters, have no clue as to what is happening, beyond Bush’s act of sincerity, and are not bright enough to recognize bulldung from frizbees.
Wasting the forests to profit his pals in the lumber industry, wasting the Alaskan Wildlife Refuge for a few buckets of oil, in order to keep his promises to line the pockets of his big oil buddies is his major goal. Oh, there are other pals he wants give your money and my money to: Pharmaceuticals, Health Insurance – you can probably add many more.
I’m a veteran. One example that you may or may not be aware, is this administration’s determination to cut the heart out of, specifically, adequate health care and compensation for disabled veterans. Our young warriors, whom I support 100%, even though I know, a certain liar, of immense proportions, sent them into harms way to be killed or wounded (some with life changing wounds). These service men and women are already feeling the effects of the real Bush policy toward veterans.
If our veterans think they are being short changed now, just wait a few more months or a couple years, when the Veterans Administration starts charging its disabled veterans for much of their care that should be, and remain, free. His speeches do not say things like this but once the speeches are done, his minions put the “real” policies into effect (the 180 degree difference between what he says and what he does). After all, the administration needs to get the savings from somewhere in order to compensate his millionaire buddies
I could go on and on. There are so many deceptions within the Bush horror show that books have been written about them and the editorial and op-ed pages of every newspaper are full of them (the exception, of course, being the Wall Street Journal editorial department).
I apologize for rambling but let me end with a quote from our president from awhile back. You may be familiar with it: A journalist asked the president how he (the president) thought history, say, some thirty or forty years down the road would judge him? The president’s quote was: “Who cares, I’ll be dead.”
February 8th, 2005 at 5:51 pmFull of sound and fury, signifying….. what???If we are all agreed that the current situation is a disaster, WHAT DO WE DO NOW?? Concrete plans, actions, that will not get us in prison?? I have read John Perkins “Confessions of an Economic Hit Man”, and he has no suggestions except speaking out to those who think everything is OK. What will that do?
February 8th, 2005 at 5:54 pmI agree with comment #47 that is a start and, I still have tremendous confidence that “we the people” can take back our country and restore its dignity. That is coming from someone in Utah which yes for the most part is in severe fact and knowledge drought as far as politics are concerned( no disrespect to any progressive minded utahns intended). There is hope. We can start by taking back both our houses of Congress in 2006. I also agree that not all Democrats are good specifically the ones who cater to Conservative policy and cabinet nominees. P.S. from Utah thank God for the internet I can see there are more people out there who refuse to close their eyes and look the other way about current American policies not just the 28% in this state that tried in November to send this country back in the right direction. I cuoldn’t agree more with Ann.
February 8th, 2005 at 5:56 pmExcuse me David Childress correction Radcon(radical conservative) policy.That has a more proper ring to it.
February 8th, 2005 at 6:07 pmBush’s obscene budget makes it clear: We are not being pushed back to the days of Hoover (a well meaning man) but to the days of McKinley & Mark Hanna (Carl Rove’s idol)! Writing your Democratic Congressmen & Senators won’t do it: Write your Republican representatives very nasty letters & e-mails, write every minister you can think of that this budget is un-Christian (after all, Jesus cared about the poor, not the rich). Tell Fox News that you will stop watching them (they don’t know that you never did) if their “commentators” support this budget, and let their sponsors know that you will boycott them. This is our best chance yet to turn things around, and remember that it is war—take no prisoners!
February 8th, 2005 at 6:09 pmAs usual, the media will give Bush a free pass on the budget and the poverty it will increase.
February 8th, 2005 at 6:18 pmI do not feel sorry for the folks that voted for the dictator, however I do think that the rest of us should be spared the pain. The present administrationcould not function in the manner they have become acustom to if it were not for help form Democrats as well as Republicans in congress. It is time for the American public to wake up and fire the lot of them. No government would be prefrable to the one we have. I am sorry to say tat things will only get worse unless we the people take this country back and at this point with a good portion of the people trying to make a theocracy out of the government, a good portion tying to skim what they can off the top, and a good portion completely asleep, I don’t see much hope for the rest of us. Te bushies have managed to do more damage in four short years than five rotten presidents before them could ever have hoped for. The smoke and mirrors budget is just the latest in their scam to gut the treasury.
February 8th, 2005 at 6:37 pmI believe all your readers agree that the policies coming out of Washington are corrupt. If they didn’t believe that they wouldn’t be readers if this newsletter.
The issues are not whether these are corrupt policies. The issues are ‘where are opposing opinions that have some intellect behind them that can be sold to the majority of the public who can then repudiate Washington?” Until we come up with proposals that improve the life of the average American instead of just complaining about the neocon proposals, we will not be in a position to pass any legislation and stop the neocons. Where have all the intellectual liberals gone?
February 8th, 2005 at 7:02 pmIMPEACH BUSH AND CHENEY ET ALL IN 2005 AND THROW THE REST OF THE BUMS OUT IN 2006.
February 8th, 2005 at 7:19 pm“I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system. Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.” -Noam Chomsky
February 8th, 2005 at 7:25 pmFrom some of the other comments, I see that I am not the only one who sees these policies as just a continuation of neo-Middle Age feudalism. So all you sharecroppers go back to your plot on the manor and quit complaining so you can pay next months tithe to the lord.
February 8th, 2005 at 7:34 pmPresident Bush,
Your tax budget sucks. Again you hurt the middle class and poor and let the rich off.
February 8th, 2005 at 7:49 pmShrub’s so-called “budget” reminds me of a man trying to pay off a huge gambling debt with his children’s allowance money while continuing to gamble.
February 8th, 2005 at 7:50 pmGeorge Washington said (and I paraphrase), don’t develop political parties, or the government will serve the political parties rather than the people. Dwight Eisenhower said, (and again, I paraphrase) don’t base your economy on military-industrialism, or you will have to promote warfare to sustain your economy. I bet they turn in their graves every night.
February 8th, 2005 at 7:52 pmWhy does no one seem to see the obvious — this country has been taken over by a fascist junta in a bloodless coup that started with the stolen 2000 election. PNAC (whose agenda is set forth in http://www.NewAmericanCentury.org) states its goals very clearly — and they seem to coincide with those of fascim — a melding of state and corporate interests, with a strong government and military. Like it or not, we are just like the German people in the 1930’s. We need to tear the idiots away from their insane “reality” shows and their Faux News and show them what is happening to their country, and only then will be we able to get rid of the malevolent munchkin that sits in our White House.
February 8th, 2005 at 8:27 pmIf indeed Bush is the “one” who will bring armeggedon and the return of Christ….well hurry up!! What will they do when he can’t get rid of abortion and the rapture doesn’t happen? They eat their own. If England could survive Cromwell we can survive this nut case. Lets hope there is a Charles the first in the wings. It is difficult to have a revolution when we don’t know who’s windows to throw the bricks through or where they hide out. Perhaps this man and the neocons are like a bad tornadoe and at least the foundation of our democracy will still be there for us to rebuild upon.
February 8th, 2005 at 8:35 pmThe whole system is a shell game.
February 8th, 2005 at 10:18 pmCall the all the loans home at the same time and the house of cards game board comes a tumbling down.
What the hell is going on here? What has happened to our democracy?
February 8th, 2005 at 10:38 pmWe can’t blame the shurb and the rest of his cronnies, we were all aware of their intentions before the ‘04 election. The British newspaper asked the proper question just after that election:
“HOW CAN 59,084,057 PEOPLE BE SO STUPID?
February 8th, 2005 at 11:17 pmI have a Master’s degree in Special Education, so I can confidently say that Bush and his voters have mental retardation. What really pisses me off is that Bush has the religious vote. How is it religious to give tax breaks to the rich and cut funding for medicaid, the health insurance for the poor? There are over 3,000 passages in the Bible that stress helping the poor yet Bush cuts their funding because his trillion dollar tax breaks to the rich have caused huge deficits. Plus the environment is God’s creation, right? Preserving it should be part of the religious rights’ agenda, not destroying environmental laws and underfunding the EPA. They hide behind their “moral values” to cover up the fact that they can’t stand it if two boys kiss. Bush sucks.
February 8th, 2005 at 11:34 pmPeople, there’s a civil war brewing here in our country. It’s only a matter of time.
February 9th, 2005 at 1:33 amYou have the power to change direction. I agree with Catherine Austin Fitts’ plan to take control of our economic interests by loudly and clearly pulling our money out of the multi-national banks and choosing to support local community banks instead. Whom we support with our $ speaks volumes. If enough of us act, and bring our friends and families along, we will affect the greedy and power-sick war-mongerers where it hurts. See http://www.solari.com for more ideas on how to say NO to this Administration. It’ll be a little like Jesus throwing the money-changers out of the temple!
February 9th, 2005 at 1:54 amThere’s a remarkably simple, logical and most importantly EQUITABLE solution to the Social Security “crisis” that can be implemented with practically ZERO administrative costs and that would sustain Social Security without any cuts in benefits throughout most of the 21st Century.
Here it is: Eliminate the $87,900 cap on taxable earnings. A struggling small business owner is hit with over 12% in taxes in social security taxes alone, while thanks to the cap, a multinational corporate CEO’s tax is capped at about $5,500…a fraction of 1% of his income. Why shouldn’t everyone be contributing equally to insuring America lives up to this intergenerational contract? Removing the cap would not only restore a tiny bit of fairness to our newly regressive tax system, but would double the amount of incoming revenue and instantly fix Social Security for decades to come.
The manner in which the Social Security tax is listed on pay stubs makes it appear that this is only a small 6.2% tax, but since the employer must contribute an equal contribution, that’s another 6.2% less to pay the employee. So the net effect for every employee is a 12.4% tax right from the get go, before even local, state and federal taxes hit.
While I’ve been published dozens of times on many less serious issues, I’ve been writing to many magazines, news networks, etc. trying to get at least a MENTION of this completely logical option, yet I’ve been ignored at every single turn. It almost feels like a conspiracy to help the administration keep Americans in the dark about the true “problem” with the Social Security system (the inherent inequity in the funding source)
February 9th, 2005 at 5:18 amFOLLOWUP:
I just came across a survey published yesterday on CNN.COM:
“Americans think the wealthy should help bolster Social Security, a CNN/USA Today/Gallup Poll released Tuesday suggests.”
“More than two-thirds of 1,010 adults contacted from Friday to Sunday said it would be a good idea to limit benefits for wealthier retirees and for higher income workers to pay Social Security taxes on all their wages.
Currently, the cap on wages taxed for Social Security is set at $90,000.”
While I’ve yet to hear coverage of this survey on the air, I’m very pleased that there appears to be some, albeit minimal, discussion on this topic.
IT WOULD BE THE ULTIMATE IRONY IF BUSH’S ATTEMPT AT DISMANTLING THE SOCIAL SECURITY SYSTEM INSTEAD RESULTS IN FORCING THE WEALTHY TO PAY THEIR FAIR SHARE…ANY IDEAS ON HOW TO HELP ORGANIZE THIS INFORMATION AND HELP SNOWBALL THIS PROPOSAL, LET ME KNOW! TWO THIRDS OF AMERICANS ARE ON OUR SIDE AND THIS IS A SIMPLE, EQUITABLE, SURE-FIRE FIX!
February 9th, 2005 at 5:36 amThe Project for the New American Century (PNAC), written in 2000 should be required reading for ALL Americans who truly care about real freedom! It outlines many of the events that have come to pass in the US adoption of a pre-emptive war strategy, the invasion of Iraq, etc. Additionally, there is increasing evidence gathered by authors of such books as Crossing the Rubicon and investigative journalists, etc. that 9/11 was an inside job, orchestrated by Cheney. Why is there absolutely no apparent effort to blow this wide open?? Is it because Republicans are all sheep and the Media is now almost completely usurped by the right or what? Will marketing/PR hype forever trump the truth because Americans truly prefer Bush’s magical thinking, lies and happy talk over the harsh, horrible reality?
February 9th, 2005 at 8:56 amIn the Hitler years, every German had a copy of “Mein Kampf”–it was the equivalent to the Bible of their leader, given as gifts at weddings, etc., but very few people bothered to read the book. Most of those who did got out of the country as quickly as possible, because it outlined exactly what Hitler’s plans were pretty much step by step.
PNAC does the same, even calling for a “Pearl Harbor-like” attack on the nation in order to launch their plan.
Anyway, interesting links about this fundamental outrage can be found as follows:
http://www.newamericancentury.org/RebuildingAmericasDefenses.pdf
http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2003/3036meacher_cheney.html
http://www.patriotsaints.com/News/911/Conspiracy/Bush/
http://www.911truth.org/
http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20050119084227272
The earnings cap certainly makes Social Security a regressive tax. With this years limit of $90,000 someone making $180,000 will pay only 3.1%, someone making $270,000 will pay only 2.07%, etc. What I think is even worse is that the cap is not a joint earnings cap. A married individual who makes $2,000,000 a year and has a stay at home spouse will pay a total of $5,580. A working couple with each making $70,000 per year will pay $8,680. I have no problem paying my fair share in taxes, but I do have a problem with paying a higher percentage than the wealthy and have a really big problem with the fact that I pay more in real dollars than many wealthy families.
February 9th, 2005 at 9:03 amI’m afraid not much good is going to happen until two things change. One, our media are going to have to start working for the people instead of the power establishment. And two, the majority of citizens are going to have to realize how wrong it is for a nation to spend more on its military than the rest of the world combined while cutting every program that actually returns tax money to the citizenry that pays it.
In other words, why are we paying taxes at all if not to improve our own lives as a national community? Our government exists to “provide for the common defense” but also to “promote domestic tranquility.” Why does one get all the attention while the other gets nothing but derision from on high? Until this question starts being asked around kitchen tables and in the press, we’re going to keep sinking. As Krugman might say, Argentina, here we come!
February 9th, 2005 at 9:34 amAll fine coments, but I wish people would face up to the fact that Bush LOST this election also. The analyses of the exit polls vs. vote totals have been done. We’ve been had, yet folks continue to act like the clown has a majority.
February 9th, 2005 at 11:14 amI am a strong believer in the adage, “what goes around, comes around” and am hoping to hell that it comes soon for all those morons who voted for the Bush regime…AGAIN. This man is bound and determined to destroy this country, as well as others, everyway he can.
February 9th, 2005 at 11:51 amHeads up, Folks… this just in! In today’s New York Daily News, while announcing Bush appoint (or rather, annointed…) KARL ROVE as his new “Deputy Chief of Staff”. It goes on to say that Rove will now be free to “coordinate policy across the White House Domestic Policy Council, the National Economic Council and THE NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL as well as the HOMELAND SECURITY COUNCIL. So what’s the big deal here? Most of us on this board already know that Rove doesn’t have our best interests at heart. It’s because Rove is already on public record as stating, and it’s repeated again inh this small article on page 4, that after the election last November, “…he’d stick around to try to build a PERMANENT GOP MAJORITY NATIONWIDE… and a FILIBUSTER-PROOF SENATE. And THAT, my friends, is as clear an admission of intent as anyone with a lick of sense should ever neeed to scare the living daylights out of them. Because what IS a country with one-party rule? No legislative ability to challenge the will of the so-called majority? And all done LEGALLY, right out in the open and under our very noses. In fact, they boldly rub OUR noses right in it, saying in effect, “So what?! Get back to work, mofos! Keep makin’ those widgets!” I think the time for real self-sacrifice is almost upon us… because we’d all better seriously start taking these bastards on. Some of the suggestions mentioned here have been excellent: boycotts and the like. Hit the pocketbook where it hurts them the most and such. But with stuff like the Patriot Act in place, things could really get quite ulgy in a hometown near you, sooner than you think. They can wrap themselves in the flag all they want to, but the stink of fascism rises regardless.
February 9th, 2005 at 1:39 pmwhat do you expect? the pigs are in control.
February 9th, 2005 at 3:29 pmMay GOD help us all
February 9th, 2005 at 5:19 pmIt’s time for the people in this country to WAKE UP!!!!!!!! first off whenever these maniacs in the bush gov. say anything expect the exact opposite. there are hundreds if not thousands of examples of this just pay attetion alittle bit people.second these people in the elite core care nothing about you and me! remember when bush said your either with us or against us.that statement was to all affluent people of this country, because bush’s plan is to make two classes the elite and those of us who have to bow to the elite just to servive. this plane has been in the works for a very long time, and g.w. bush believes he has the power and the backing to do it. so wake up america there is way more of us than there them!!! start standing up for whats right, and stop amongst each other. stand by your fellow worker not for your c.e.o most of us will never be part of there culb and why would you want to be, they are evil to the core. so you better be prepared to fight because if your not you will just be eliminated permanantly!!!!!!!!!!!!!
so as I said at the begining may GOD help us all.
i wasn’t going to comment because, like “my fair lady,” i’m so sick of words. what good does it do to comment? i read, i listen, i watch, i sign petitions, i think, and i worry, but that doesn’t change anything. no matter what george w. bush and his toadies say or do, nothing/nobody seems able to stop the madness.
February 9th, 2005 at 5:46 pmThe religious right believes the Rapture is coming and of course only the Saved will be taken to heaven. Well, this lady thought the bus was leavig without her. If it wasn’t so sad, it would be funny. A friend sent this to me, from a newspaper clipping. There’s such a thing as Faith and another thing called Obsession.
Arkansas Woman Killed in
February 9th, 2005 at 10:32 pmMistaken Rapture
by Elroy Willis
ARKANSAS CITY (EAP) — A Little Rock woman was killed yesterday after leaping through her moving car’s sunroof during an incident best described as a “mistaken rapture” by dozens of eye-witnesses. Thirteen other people were injured after a twenty-car pile-up resulted from people trying to avoid hitting the woman, who was apparently convinced that the rapture was occurring when she saw twelve people floating up into the air, and then passed a man on the side of the road who she believed was Jesus. “She started screaming `He’s back! He’s back!’ and climbed out through the sunroof and jumped off the roof of the car,” said Everet Williams, husband of 28-year-old Georgann Williams who was pronounced dead at the scene. “I was slowing down but she wouldn’t wait till I stopped,” Williams said. She thought the rapture was happening and was convinced that Jesus was gonna lift her up into the sky,” he went on to say. “This is the strangest thing I’ve seen since I’ve been on the force,” said Paul Madison, first officer on the scene. Madison questioned the man who looked like Jesus and discovered that he was on his way to a toga costume party, when the tarp covering the bed of his pickup truck came loose and released twelve blow-up sex dolls filled with helium, which then floated up into the sky. Ernie Jenkins, 32, of Fort Smith, who’s been told by several of his friends that he looks like Jesus, pulled over and lifted his arms into the air in frustration and said “Come back,” just as the Williams’ car passed him, and Mrs. Williams was sure that it was Jesus lifting people up into heaven as they drove by him. “I think my wife loved Jesus more than she loved me,” the widower said when asked why his wife would do such a thing. When asked for comments about the twelve sex dolls, Jenkins replied “This is all just too weird for me. I never expected anything like this to happen.”
THere are 3000+ Americans dead(Sept 11),1000+dead and more will die,in the war that was to have wmd’s , Billions in debt and now he is trying to sell us his s/s plan that will cost trillions. HILTER was stopped, when will americans wake up and convict him of war crimes and money laundering
February 10th, 2005 at 11:45 amJoanne Goodwin.
February 11th, 2005 at 10:51 amYes lets get started, its up too you and me to start the movement. I’m ready ! Sorry for the delay
One good way to start to turn things around would be to turn out all incumbents on election day and send the message that we are tired of business as usual. I have been trying this approach for many years now, but alas, my single vote doesn’t seem to carry enough oomph. I need your help! Get rid of congressmen and reps who do not have the interest of ordinary Americans at heart. They will be more apt to consider how they vote if they realize thay could face the ire of the voters. 2006 would be a great place to start.
February 12th, 2005 at 12:48 pmFor the first time in my life I am ashamed to be an American! I never thought I could ever feel that way about my country (even when Nixon was in office). Dubya and the religious wrong sure did an excellent job of turning the American dream into the American Nightmare.
February 12th, 2005 at 2:02 pmReward the rich? Let the white collar (BushBuddies) thieves off with a slap on the wrist, screwing the poor and middle class, eliminate help programs, screw the environment, wreck social security, reduce veteran benefits, occupy another country after invading on bogus chages, lining up buddies to do biz with … the list is endless. THERE IS NO GOD or Bush would NOT be in office!! Dubya..your place in history is right next to Hitler’s…. and you have the audacity to claim that your satanic hand signal is the symbol for a TX uni. Just look at their site at what the symbol really looks like….and why claim to be using the sign for a school you never attended????? Take a close look at that hand sign and check out the symbol for Satan.
During Hitler’s take-over in Germany, most of the German people had no knowledge (or understanding) of his policies toward the Jews. I am beginning to fear that the USA is existing in a similar situation under Bush. He spoke to the American conscience in his recent State of the Union address, yet if you study the Bush budget proposal you begin to realize that his words do not match his actions. The trillions of dollars in NEW tax cuts for the wealthy, the cuts in health care for our poor, the cuts in educational funding all speak to his real agenda. It is time to take our country back–to put a stop to this right wing takeover and put America back on track to strenghten the American spirit that has brought us to this point in our history. The spirit of free Americans who look at making our society a better place for all, not just the rich and influential. I fear what the Bush administration’s actions may yield for the majority of Americans over the next four years. His leadership has not and does not seem to be concerned about common goals for common man.
February 12th, 2005 at 6:04 pmI believe that Mr. Bush will insure the solvency of the Social Security system for the future with or without stock market schemes. Without adequate medical care, early intervention, medication, housing, police protection, etc. many of our citizens may be able to work at low paying jobs but may not reach Social Security retirement age.
February 13th, 2005 at 1:14 pmI wonder, as the rest of the world watches the changes seemingly being supported by voters in our country, if some countries are busy crafting immigration laws affecting Americans seeking jobs and a better life.
I agree with Allen Keith.Start the turn around in 2006 and change
February 17th, 2005 at 8:34 amthe balance in Congress.
Do not give up. We can not afford to sit down and do nothing.
Stay involved. Keep yourself informed. Sign those petitions.
Let your voice be heard.
He did not win this election. He took it in Ohio instead of Florida
this time.
He does represent me nor thousands upon thousands of Americans.
Do not be fooled
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