So my Bush-voting sisters calls me yesterday....

[Darkhawk32]

We did the usual sibling chit-chat and then somehow, the hurricane came into the conversation. We started discussing how those people were locked in the Superdome and the CC for 5 days with no food or water. She had seen MTP with Mr. Broussard and she was absolutely floored to hear that FEMA was keeping people from getting help. She noticed how reporters were going in and out of the disaster areas with no problem, but somehow the rescue crews couldn't make it. She saw the President lie saying, "No one could've known the levees would break."

She told me she was ashamed and now wished she hadn't voted for him. I told her that I don't feel sorry for her and she had a small hand in what occurred in New Orleans.

I told her that her and "people that voted for Bush had better wake up and vote with some adult thinking or this country is fucked."

She says she wished that she could undo and recast her vote. I told her that "if you want the fucker out, your ass better vote Democrat all the way down the board in 2006. Congressman, Senator, County Commissioner, EVERYTHING. What in the fuck have these bastard Republicans done for you. Not a god damn thing!"

She said, "Well, my taxes are a little less this year."

I said, "Look, how much have things gone up in price... food, gas, utilities, local taxes to cover Bush's tax cut." How long did it take before that tax break was wiped out? A month, maybe! We also have another fucking Vietnam on our hands. $200 billion wasted. Our national debt is so huge that when a baby is born, they're born with a $140k debt. Clinton was on the way to wiping out our national debt, then we could've ALL had tax cuts. Significant ones."

She said she agreed and that she felt really bad. I told her to talk openly to others about her feelings. It's the only way to get this country back to some semblance of decency.

[no_to_war_economy]

1. tell your sisters to call my freeper brother

he still stands by his boy

fuck you mr president fuck you

[Dem Agog]

2. Yeah and add my (now estranged) brother to that list...

He still supports this jerk too.

I just e-mailed him a lengthy explanation of why I would no longer speak with or associate with him:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4695678

[RebelOne]

12. Add my freeper sister and brother-in-law to the list.

Anything that dumbass fucks up will change their mind about him.

[Obamanaut]

17. Add my long time friend (former sister in law) - she was an

invited guest to one of the * inauguration balls. I told her this week, following the most recent Babs comments, that the whole family are spawns of satan.

[ernstbass]

3. I had to hang up on my freeper sister this am

She's still drinking the kool aid. I'm glad yours came to her senses.

[mattclearing]

7. See Kool-Aid Retirement Thread:

Here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4695419

:D

[OregonBlue]

4. THANK YOU! THANK YOU!

I needed to hear that some people are finally coming out of the long sleep! You made my morning.

[Booster]

5. Republicans just amaze me that they are so inept at simple math.

Why can't they figure out that all the money going into Iraq, or Halliburton to be more exact, and all the billions that will go into Katrina, has to come out of taxes. Their spend and borrow technic is so much worse than the Dems spend and tax it isn't even funny. I don't mind paying taxes if it means it keeps our country strong and helps us when we need help, but their method is just plain stupid. I have no sympathy for them either, but how many Republicans do you think took government help in Florida after the hurricanes, and then probably bitched because it wasn't enough for them to get their lives back the way they were. They really make my stomach churn.

[TahitiNut]

10. Indeed. They also ignore the fact that the deficit is a "TAX."

When she says her taxes are "a little less," she's wrong. In effect, the IRS has collected part of her taxes in cash and the other part in an IOU - an IOU that's about 50% again what she paid in cash. That IOU comes due every year, and is paid in interest and another IOU - and forms a part of her 'estate' to her (and our) children and her (and our) children's children.

A "little less" translates into "50% higher."

[prolesunited]

6. Ask her how many deaths she finds acceptable

just so her "taxes go down a little."

If they went down a lot, would she support another murderous rampage?

The selfish, narrow-mindedness of so many people makes me heartsick.

[paula777]

8. She can say she's sorry, but it doesn't change the fact that she is

partially responsible for a whole lot of people dying. In NO and Iraq.

[imperialismispasse]

9. "My taxes were a little less"

Great. It only cost 2000 lives in Iraq and 10,000 in New Orleans. Fair trade?

Im glad to hear shes starting to see the truth.

[krkaufman]

13. "Well, my taxes are a little less this year."

Yeah, but I doubt that she's really awakened. Her current position is likely a knee-jerk reaction to Katrina, but, soon, she'll again fall prey to the propaganda (or inattentiveness) that caused her to support The Chimp.

[jonnyblitz]

15. and you didn't even include Iraqi lives lost...

that jacks the human life cost up a bit more even...

[imperialismispasse]

16. Your right

Sorry about that oversight.

[bushisanidiot]

20. Yep, the devistation of "shock and awe" was as big or bigger than

katrina's..

all for AWoL's lie..

[gratuitous]

11. "Well, my taxes are a little less this year"

Isn't it wonderful how these folks know the cost of everything, but the value of nothing? How much more is gasoline or electricity or other utilities costing you? That's a form of taxation that doesn't show up in your W-2, and the extra money you're paying out on those bills goes to line the pockets of some overrich fatcat so he can buy another house he can't live in or a yacht he doesn't have time to sail. At least with taxes, there's a chance that money could be spent on something that would benefit all of society.

[GreenPartyVoter]

14. Well done!

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[Pacifist Patriot]

19. Taxes went down?

I wouldn't bet on it. Taxes were raised everywhere else to more than account for Bush's "token gift" to the people.