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

To: Orcastraiter who wrote (550488)	3/10/2004 11:50:13 PM
From: PROLIFE	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Quotes...from J. Fonda hisownself. sad, not much of a man when you get to looking at him...oh...he tries to overcome it by dressing up in a hockey suit, or riding a Harley, big whoop....I think he just tries to overcome his gigolo status....whatever he tries though just does not seem to work. He is still a Kennedy Kloned gigolo...

To: Orcastraiter who wrote (550488)	3/11/2004 9:15:58 AM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 769667

THIS IS TOO FUNNY... ____________________________ The Billionaires For Bush Political Platform billionairesforbush.com Billionaire focus groups are hard at work hammering out the finer details of our political message. Until that process is complete, the following is our preliminary platform: Blood for oil: it's worth it! Four hundred U.S. soldiers have died in Iraq since the invasion. Even if we adopt a flattering estimate of their economic productivity, they would have earned at most an average of $25,000 per year. The aggregate GDP loss resulting from their deaths is thus $10 million per year -- less than the annual income of just one of us. The long-term GDP gain from American control over Iraq's vast oil resources, in addition to our booming military industry, amounts to hundreds of billions of dollars and easily overshadows the small economic cost of American casualties. Job relief for America. When George Bush came into office, our companies were desperately in need of relief from the tight job market. Although during the 90s billionaires saw unprecedented gains in wealth and income, years of low unemployment raised wages, strengthened labor unions, and created a new generation of spoiled employees threatening to impose reforms on our economic way of life. Thankfully, after only four years in office George Bush has delivered what we could previously only fantasize about: strong growth, soaring profits, but without creating jobs. Bush has carried us into another economic Golden Age, and with a second term he can make jobless growth the rule, not the exception, for years to come. Leave no billionaire behind. Deregulate elections. Eliminate all limits on campaign contributions. Democracy means the right to use our money in any way we choose. Repealing the restrictive laws regulating money in politics will make the buying of elected officials vastly more efficient. Re-capitalize the prison-industrial complex. Prisoners cannot migrate in search of higher pay, demand raises or benefits, organize labor unions, protest, or engage in other forms of economic terrorism. They are the ideal modern workforce. Upon re-election, George Bush will promote prison sector growth by expanding the war on drugs and toughening penal codes to send more poor people to prison for longer sentences. Moreover, Bush understands that private-owned prisons are especially successful at turning poverty, crime, and social deterioration into a solid bottom line for investors. Defend Enron. The poor have initiated a campaign to blame corporate America for their own shortcomings. Under the banner of "corporate responsibility" they aim to rob us of the rights upon which our cherished way of life is founded: secrecy and power. They want us to expose our governance and accounting to public scrutiny. They will stop at nothing to destroy our freedom to purchase elected officials. Recently they have focused their witch-hunt on Ken Lay and his esteemed Enron Corporation in an effort to divide our class. It is our duty as billionaires to defend our moneyed brothers from these attacks rather than acquiesce to such scapegoating. For who will it be after Enron? General Motors? Halliburton? J.P. Morgan? Walmart? George Bush spent much of his first term in office fighting to defuse public pressure for stricter corporate regulations. We have every reason to expect that Bush, a close friend of Kenneth Lay, will continue to defend corporate "criminals" from political persectution if re-elected. Small government. Big wars. The best way to eliminate social programs and other forms of wealth redistribution is to drain the treasury. President Bush has successfully created an unprecedented federal deficit in two ways: tax cuts and military spending. We fully support this proven strategy. Free the Forbes 400. End economic terrorism. Strikes, health & safety standards, minimum wage, taxes, etc. On to Iran! They've got oil too. Health care is already affordable. (Because we can afford anything.) The Class War: Let's finish what we started. Fee speech. Nothing should be free.