Only one more step to complete the disaster of America.

[kentuck]

With the WTC bombings, the Katrina Hurricane, the destruction of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, and the massive transfer of wealth, with the continued bankruptcy of our nation, there is only one more step left to complete the Bush Disaster on America. That is the dismantling of the Social Security System. Once that is done, you may as well sweep off the front porch, get in your little boat and start rowing to another shore. There is nothing left in this country worth fighting for. We are trashed.

[castiron]

1. Don't forget about the overarching crisis:

wanton environmental destruction for profit.

[zanne]

2. Taxation without representation

It takes even more than that to get me to admit that we no longer live in a democracy--the Supreme Court takeover, whether it happens in weeks or months, will signal the demise of American as we know it. Democrats are 50% of this country, and with congress the way it is today, we are not represented. I feel that this is someone else's country now; they own it and we just live here. Where there is no representation, there is no democracy.

[whistle]

3. Unless you choose to be part of the "ownership society" that

....George W. Bush likes to fantasize about.

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Bush's Ownership Society
No Taxes for Owners, Only for Workers
By MARK WEISBROT

"When you hear them say, tax the rich, be careful," warned George W. Bush in a speech on Thursday. "The rich hire lawyers and accountants for a reason, because they don't want to pay. And you get stuck with the tab. But we're not going to let him stick you with the tab."

Well he ought to know about hiring lawyers and accountants. But the rest is pure deception.

In fact, the problem is the opposite of what Bush asserts. It is that his tax cuts that are shifting more of the burden of taxes to middle-class and working-class households.

This is important because the Bush team is counting on buying millions of votes with their tax cuts. Most people know that the biggest chunk of the tax cut goes to the rich and the super rich: about a quarter of the 2001-2003 tax cuts went to just 1 percent of taxpayers. These are people with an average income of more than a million dollars a year.

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