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Preaches Diplomacy At General Assembly, Says U.S. Gov't Is Handling Financial Crisis
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- WELFARE FOR THE RICH?--2
Welfare for the rich is called a "rescue", but a rescue for the the poor or middle class is called "welfare"? Don''t ask Bernanke for a famiy values sermon from Wall Street on honor and trustworthiness and personal integrity-- Wall Street has none. And Bernanke, himself, plays by rules imposed by the very players he is supposed to regulate-- after all, Bush has told him they are too big to fail.
Speaking of privilege, perhaps we should ask, where is the tax revenue Bush gave the "HaveMores"-- that slim 5.5 percent segment of taxpayers Bush called his political "base"? Just at the moment Bush fiscal policy erupts in a four-alarm blaze, we learn Bush has drained the treasury reservoir dry to throw a party for his friends.
At this point, we might do well to wonder whether these GOP-aligned, "free-market" bozos ever properly identified themselves. Why have they gone into hiding, if not to escape the firestorm their lies helped create?
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WELFARE FOR THE RICH?--3
Their principal deception portrays government as an enemy of the public interest. But in stark and factual contrast, a government in a truly functional democracy is not enemy, but instrument of the people it is charged to serve.
Most interestingly, when the GOP found itself in power, it not only expanded "evil" government for its own ends, but created the most monstrous governmental debt this nation ever has seen.
It seems the GOP cannot get even its own message straight. Consider taxation. The GOP free market bozos regard taxation, at best, as a necessary evil because (as they remind everybody) there is no free lunch.
Yet, Bush and McBush regard taxes as an UNnecessary evil, and promise to refrain from taxation. They appear the odd men out, for most (even conservative) fiscal experts continue to insist taxation is an essential part of a rational fiscal policy. It goes along with the truism about "no free lunch".
Taxation is only a means to an end-- not intrinsically good or evil. For example, two major tax increases by Clinton were almost immediately followed by a surge in economic growth. This puzzled supply-siders to distraction.
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- WELFARE FOR THE RICH?--4
Two major tax cuts by Bush-- most of it to a small minority of taxpayers-- were almost immediately followed by absolutely nothing. A disappointed Bush was left empty-handed, plaintively assuring everybody who would listen the economy is actually much better than it seemed.
By now, most Americans realize the next president must restore our fiscal policy to a semblance of rational order. After eight years, Bush tax cuts have not worked as any kind of effective, coherent stimulus for the economy.
It is abundantly clear the standard Bush modus operandi has been to avoid tax increases and simply postpone them to the next administration. That is called "borrowing with interest", and already Bush has nearly doubled the national debt. With his $700 billion appropriation request, he may well make it-- but at our expense.
Bush (Shrub) never forgot the humbling experience of his father, forced to recant his famous line, "Read my lips! No new taxes!" So Bush does the emotional but not rational thing, dismissing taxes like a drunk tosses his house keys away when he cannot find the right one.
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WELFARE FOR THE RICH?--5
Now Bush wants American taxpayers to give him another boost-- on top of his spendthrift ways with Iraq, monstrous national debt and lavish Bush gifts to his friends (the tax cuts given primarily to his political "base", the wealthy 5.5 percent of taxpayers).
Bush wants a $700 billion check-- just like that.
And Bush has a simple plan for that check-- to pass along our money to the very Wall Street players which are responsible for the crisis.
It''s clear direct action is long overdue for the disastrous Bush economy, but Bush''s blank check proposal is nowhere near the answer.
Barack Obama laid out key principles for dealing with this situation. Obama''s main point: Main Street must be put ahead of Wall Street, and no blank check for the Bush Administration. http://www.barackobama.com/issues/fiscal
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- "In Last U.N. Speech, Bush Pushes Democracy"
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Democracy? This idiot has one note to strum. He has destroyed our Constitution, our economy and our society. In the Middle East, he has destroyed their country and the birthplace of civilization. All in the name of democracy.
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- You know you guys are wasting your time talking to the Bush/McCain/Palen supporters. They are all on valiums, alcohol and drugs, did you guys see the RNC. It''s hard for anyone with any rational thinking to understand how anyone could support the Republican party, it''s amazing. Everything is right there in their faces, but like Obama said of McCain, he just doesn''t get it, Bush hasn''t gotten it in 8 years and Palin will never get it. Obama is going to win this election by a landslide. I still have faith in the greater number of Americans who are intelligent and still sane.
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- We should stop telling the rest of the world what to do and how to live. Our government is no better than the one in Italy,Iran or Iraq, it is corrupt from the bottom up. Until that changes, we Americans have no chance and they know that in Washington.
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- We as a nation have poured more money and aid into just about every other country on the planet with little or no return. We rebuild Europe after WWII, with no repayment. After 50 some odd yrs. of helping others, we find ourselves on the brink of collapse and all the world can do is point fingers at the hand that has fed most of them for all this time. Time to re-evaluate our thinking and ask ourselves why we are helping anyone. Rid ourselves of these parasites.
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- Listen!! I dont care who wins this presidential election, Obama or McCain isnt going to clean up this financial mess in 8 years!!! are you kidding? in 8 years this wont even be america every country that owns a piece of america would taken its share by then!
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- There is going to be a big time in New York tonight. Every mothers son is busting out in joy. They dont have to listen to Bush and his bull anymore.
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