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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Brumar89 who wrote (22868)	9/12/2004 7:47:15 AM
From: geode00	Respond to of 173976

Nope. Kerry understands balanced budgets and economic growth. He has the Clinton model and Clinton's people (see Rubin who also just wrote a book) to see him through. The DEMS in the WH are the only ones who balanced the budget in the last 3 decades. Clinton moved the budget towards balanced and finally to surplus EVERY YEAR of his admin. Kerry is a multimillionaire capitalist. What in the world makes anyone think he's not conservative with money? WRONG. Everyone's taxes have not been cut. There has already been a 1% tax burden shift from the ultrawealthy to the middle class. That's not in question. Taxes come in many forms: - increased state and local taxes and fees - decreased services - increased expenses on things like energy - interest payments on record consumer debt (record bankruptcies two years running now) - more taxes in the future. Some of the "breaks" were just prepayments from the future. These things function in the same way as taxes do. So, whereas the ultrawealthy received a huge tax break, money they do not need to feed themselves, the middle and lower classes received only enough to get eaten up by other taxes. The net result: only the ultrawealthy got a real tax decrease. The Medicare bill vote was left open well into the night so that the RNC could hammer at reluctant Republicans. This was ON TOP OF THE FACT that the RNC LIED about the cost (remember Sculley?) of the Medicare bill. What is wrong with the bill? It gives extra super duper profits to the drug companies...for what? They're hugely profitable anyway. It also PREVENTS negotiating for lower prices. HUH? The bill is so expensive for the same reason that the Iraq war is so expensive: Bush Privatization and Corruption. Just as CACI mercenaries get paid (taxfree) 10 times what our soldiers make for safer jobs, the Medicare bill gives BigPharma built-in, non-negotiable profits. This isn't capitalism, this is pure corruption. Privatization of the entire US for the benefit of Bush cronies and supporters is NEW FOR THE US. It isn't new for autocracies such as Saudi Arabia. Bush has a model in Prince Bandar's corrupt life and he's doing everything he can to achieve the same thing. Bush isn't at all tough on immigration. The problem with the bill was the PRIVATIZATION OF GOVERNMENT. That's called: dictatorship, aristocracy, fascism. Do you want the US to turn into a private corporation run solely for the profit of the CEO and managers? I want oil to scare the bejesus out of people and go to $5/gallon or to whatever point it gets idiots out of single-passenger SUVs, commuter Humvees and other ridiculous vehicles. As a nation, we could stand to walk more anyway. It really doesn't matter. If we don't do something now, we'll be fighting for what's left of oil in the future. The rest of the world is just as hungry for oil as we are so we're in for a fight if we don't reduce dependence on oil. Again, if China elevates its population to the level of Mexico, they will eat as much oil all by themselves as the entire world does today. It takes 196,000 pounds of organic material to make 1 gallon of gas. At some point, WE WILL RUN OUT. China is already eating up so much steel and concrete that building in the US is actually affected. Steel, concrete...can oil be much farther behind?