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Who says the middle class isn't being squeezed out of existence?! And what does our "fearless" leader what? Does he care what is happening to the middle class? He just wants more money to keep fighting a useless war and bankrupt the country!
Kuwait's Sheik (or Emir or Pasha or Sultan or Grand High Exalted Mystic Ruler, or whatever the h*ell he is), was returned to power.
There was no attempt by Bush the Elder to impose a Western style democracy there.
Dubya's prudent father was successful in war.
The first Gulf War could be called a Mission Accomplished, if not a victory, since the mission was sensibly selected: to liberate Kuwait, not to liberate Iraq.
The overthrow of Manuel Noriega in Panama was a very small "war" that resulted in victory.
Reagan started the borrow-and-spend policy in the 80%u2019s running the national debt into the trillions.
Bush Jr. has done even worse with his tax cuts and paying for his war through borrowing, thereby doubling the national debt. The annual interest on just a part of the debt is somewhere around $1/2 trillion which equals what we have spent on the Iraq fiasco in more than 4 years and that interest (to China, Japan, etc) must be paid EVERY year.
The government has borrowed about $2 trillion from the social security surplus alone, plus at least that much more from other programs, on which no interest is paid.
The favorite claim made by the republicans is; cutting taxes helps the economy.
When we borrow trillions of dollars from foreign countries instead of cutting spending to pay for the tax cuts we are loosing control of our country and steadily going into bankruptcy and ruin.
When the democrats are in control and try to pay down the debt they are falsely labeled as the tax & spend party.
Nearly all jobs created over the past 3 decades have been service industry jobs. Think about that for a minute. When products are not being made/created to pay for that labor, where is the money coming from?
Someone once said:it is like a giant vacuum sucking up all of the resources of the average American, middle class or other wise.
That statement made my day."
Posted by acauble1 at 07:04 PM : Apr 15, 2007
Thanks. That was not my invention, however, but that of many writers more clever than I.
Here one from USAToday.com back in August 2006:
"There's an old saying that "a rising tide lifts all boats." Popularized by President John F. Kennedy, it generally refers to how a growing economy benefits everyone.
These days, however, it might need to be revised to say: "A rising tide lifts all yachts." Or perhaps it should be retired entirely, because it no longer appears to be accurate.
That's the inescapable conclusion from Tuesday's Census Bureau report on poverty. Some 37 million Americans lived below the poverty line ($19,971 for a family of four) in 2005 %u2014 that's 4 million more than at the height of the last recession, in 2001."
The principle behind the Bush tax cuts.
Posted by Iceman_1960 at 06:43 PM : Apr 15, 2007
ROTFLMAO! I love it Iceman!
That statement made my day.
Posted by Iceman_1960
Geez, I criticized the Heritage foundation on their Sunday morning show story "The squeezing of America", and six pages of posts disappeared into cyberspace......My publish button is still disabled (on that page) and it's been over half an hour
That's a tough one for a layman to spell on the fly.
Of course.
Thought can make you sick. Look at Einstein. He died of an brain hemhhorage.
The principle behind the Bush tax cuts.