Swede
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Fri Nov-26-04 11:27 PM
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Has Bush made the line between good and evil permeable? |
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Support no child left behind but gut it by underfunding. Support the Pell grants on national tv,but again reduce funding. Call esate tax a death tax. Stand in the Grand canyon,but destroy enviromental rules. Impose tax cuts for the rich,while taxing the needy. Invade a country to protect freedom. Detain enemy combatants with no charge,with no rights. Destroy a city to save it. Torture prisoners to save lives. Execute prisoners,for what? It started gradually,with semantics. It grew into misleading statements to outright lies. To death on a massive scale. Murder.
Did anyone believe this could happen in America. Does anyone even recognize what has happened here. A line has been crossed,it cannot be uncrossed.
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Fri Nov-26-04 11:29 PM
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1. Orwell called it double-speak |
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Fri Nov-26-04 11:38 PM
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2. No but he made hypocrisy |
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a daily fact of our lives.
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Fri Nov-26-04 11:38 PM
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3. Bush Is Destroying America |
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I read a statement from Sen.Tom Harkin(dem-Iowa)on his website about Bush's economic plan which I will copy and paste here. I hope more senators like him speak out about Bush!
President Bush sent Congress a budget that is sadly out of touch with the priorities of the American people, and racks up trillions of dollars in new debt for our children and grandchildren. The President wants another $1.2 trillion in tax cuts for the wealthy, plus tens of billions of dollars in new spending on things like Star Wars and a trip to Mars. Flying off to Mars may sound grand, but Americans have much more down-to-earth worries - such as paying for a trip to the doctor, affording their kids' college costs, or keeping their jobs. Unfortunately, the President's budget does little to address those needs. While providing new tax breaks for the wealthiest, he slashes resources for rural America, drastically shortchanges the transportation initiatives that create jobs, and woefully underfunds education.
"In three years, President Bush recklessly turned a projected $5 trillion surplus into a projected $5 trillion deficit-adding an annual interest charge of $1,000 on the credit card of each and every American. The President must stop gambling with taxpayers' money and get the country back on the path of fiscal sanity."
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Sat Nov-27-04 12:03 AM
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6. What they don't realize |
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is that the bush tax cuts are costing more via the devaluation of the dollar due to the deficit than any tax increase in history.
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Fri Nov-26-04 11:50 PM
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4. No the line between good and evil is still there |
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Bush is on the other side of it. The whole BFEE is, and the neocons. The fundo-christian masses are straddling but they dont realize it and would probably be horrified if they ever did.
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Gloria
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Sat Nov-27-04 12:02 AM
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5. What really disturbs me to the core is the dissonance between |
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Bush telling us he's morally superior, yet every act he commits is totally without moral concerns.
The second thing that really bugs me--perhaps even more--is the fact that Americans seem to be COMPLICIT in all this. Even with the screwed up, biased media...the basic facts that get through still provide enough information for any decent American to know that something is very wrong with the behavior of this Administration.
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