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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: LindyBill who wrote (400284)	4/29/2003 1:22:42 AM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Candidates Agree Bush Pushing Unfair Tax Cuts for Wealthy DEAN: Instead of spending $200 B to insure the health of every child in America, we'll give $350 B to fat cats and enslave the children with debt. childrensdefense.org Mirror: truthout.org CANDIDATES AGREE BUSH PUSHING UNFAIR TAX CUTS FOR THE WEALTHY Bush Administration Plan Targets Children to Pay for Massive Tax Breaks WASHINGTON - All nine Democratic presidential candidates this month pledged to defend poor children from the Bush Administration's budget war during the Children's Defense Fund's Presidential Candidates Forum on Children. While the candidates at the forum disagreed on the war overseas, all agreed this is not the time to cut essential services for children to pay for massive new tax cuts for the rich. Six in 10 Americans believe that this is not the time for more tax cuts, according to an April 14th Associated Press poll. Meanwhile, the Bush Administration is planning more than 40 principal events across the country in the next several days to sell its budget and tax plan, which the Congressional Budget Office last month found would have a negligible effect on the economy— except for causing the budget deficit to swell over the next decade. Children's Defense Fund President Marian Wright Edelman said millionaires didn't need the tax cut Congress gave them two years ago, and they don't need a new one now, especially when our nation is experiencing a surge in unemployed parents with more and more children falling into extreme poverty, and a million American children are homeless each year. "We must meet our children's needs during peacetime and wartime, during economic prosperity and downturn. How can we take food from children to give tax cuts to millionaires?" asked Edelman. "All the candidates that gathered with us agreed that it is immoral to subsidize massive new tax breaks for the rich on the backs of poor children." Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts said there are two Americas—the one that politicians talk about and the one where millions of children have no health care, are homeless, and lack proper nutrition. "It is long since time that we had a president who made real the words, Leave No Child Behind®," said Kerry. "This Administration is laying out enormous plans for building roads, schools, hospitals and providing books in Iraq, and it's time for us to demand that they lay out a plan to do the same here in the United States of America." Gov. Howard Dean of Vermont noted that we could provide health insurance for every child under the age of 18 in this country for $200 billion. "It seems to me like that is a better investment," said Dean. "What are we doing voting for $350 billion in tax cuts for people that don't need them?" <Continues at Children's Defense Website.............>

To: LindyBill who wrote (400284)	4/29/2003 2:00:00 AM
From: MSI	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 769670

<<Kerry's campaign has nervously watched Dean>> As is everyone, GOP included. It's humorous that none of the Keystone Kops politicians knows what to make of someone who feels the truth of his convictions. His responses are not supplied by consultants with focus groups but by his own mind from actual voters and results. As far as military strength being limited, it is common sense, going back to Geo Washington, or further back to the successes and failures of Rome, to recognize that military power is never absolute, as our current regime seems to think. To pretend so is a sure path to disaster. The Dean camp needs to reiterate that rather than allowing the media cherry-pick the least adequate responses