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

To: George Coyne who wrote (497451)	11/23/2003 9:04:41 PM
From: Orcastraiter	Respond to of 769670

It's not that I'm refusing to understand your point. It's that I disagree with what you are saying. First let me say that the democrats are the party that best represents the issues that the poor and minorities hold dear. This is why they give their support to the democrats. And this is why there are more minority candidates in the democratic party than in the republican party. Minorities and poor folks in general just don't get it about the tax cuts for the rich, deficit spending on the war, and jobs being lost in the economy faster than they are created. Bush will be the first President since the depression to preside over an economy that has lost jobs. He will certainly have the worst jobs record since Hoover. Republicans will point out that there is only 6.2% unemployment, but this fails to recognize that black unemployment is more than double that at 14% unemployment. Latino unemployment is at 10 to 12%. So if you are white and republican there is a good chance you have a job, and don't understand the angst of minorities. You tell them things will get better, but since Bush has been president things have gotten worse. You say wait, be patient, trickle down will eventually get to you. But they need jobs now. They need to pay the rent and buy groceries. The republican rhetoric doesn't buy them nuthin. When you have the GOP targeting minority communities as challengers in elections, well that won't buy any confidence either. Or when the voter rolls in Florida are purged of 60,000 black voters, well that is a direct blow too. I understand why the GOP does this, because Blacks vote overwhelmingly for democrat candidates. These Blacks apparently don't realize that these GOP tactics to keep them from voting is for their own good. I'm in favor of jobs programs as a way of stimulating the economy. Investment in our infrastructure, education, job training and tax cuts for industries that are actually creating jobs. This is where the democrats part company with the republicans. I personally don't believe that tax cuts for the rich automatically creates jobs, the evidence is that is does not. People need jobs now, not three, four or five years from now, if then. Because a tax cut when it's not tied to job creation is not a guarantee of anything but rich people voting for Bush. Personally I'm fed up with economy. We could have had a red hot economy by now, but time has been wasted by this administration in addressing current needs. And with the tax cuts in tandem with huge deficit spending all we're doing is digging a hole that will take generations to climb out of. The republicans like to say they are conservatives, but this economic program is anything but conservative. It's more like suicidal. then you have important legislation like the energy bill that is so slanted to big oil and energy while it forgets the people and the environment. And the pork attached to this bill would make any democrat look like a tightwad conservative. No sir, I don't get it, and I have the feeling that most minorities and poor don't get it either. Orca