Kerry Rapid Response Center, "Bush On The Run" on The Draft, Economy

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

http://blog.johnkerry.com/rapidresponse/archives/003558.html

George Bush is clearly on the run, trying to hide from the fact that his administration has sent America in the wrong direction. You just need to watch the last few nights of network newscasts to see that. It’s time for a fresh start with a president who is forthcoming about what he’s doing to address the issues facing Americans here at home and abroad.

Bush Promised to Never Institute a Draft, But…

He Has Already Instituted a Backdoor Draft. In May, it was reported, “The U.S. Army is scraping up soldiers for duty in Iraq wherever it can find them, and that includes places and people long considered off-limits. The Army… confirmed that it pulled the files of some 17,000 people in the Individual Ready Reserve, the nation’s pool of former soldiers.” In June 2004, Rumsfeld issued “an order preventing thousands of soldiers designated for duty in Iraq or Afghanistan from leaving the military even when their volunteer service commitment expires…The move to extend the service of some soldiers involuntarily was the latest sign of increasing stress on the Army as the Pentagon strives to maintain adequate troop levels in the two conflicts.” )Reuters, 6/2/04; Knight Ridder, 5/19/04)

And Today It Was Revealed Selective Service Is Preparing For A Draft of Medical Professionals. “The Selective Service has been updating its contingency plans for a draft of doctors, nurses and other health care workers in case of a national emergency that overwhelmed the military's medical corps. In a confidential report this summer, a contractor hired by the agency described how such a draft might work, how to secure compliance and how to mold public opinion and communicate with health care professionals, whose lives could be disrupted… Richard S. Flahavan, a spokesman for the Selective Service System, said: ‘We have been routinely updating the entire plan for a health care draft.’” (NYT, 10/19/04)

Bush Asserted the Economy Was Doing Just Fine, But…

Bush is 7 Million Jobs Short of His 2002 Prediction, the First President in Over 70 Years To Preside Over a Net Job Loss. Annual projections in the 2002 Economic Report of the President implied 6.5 million new jobs between January 2001 and September 2004. Instead, we have lost 821,000 jobs. As a result, we are 7 million jobs short of the prediction which President Bush made after 9/11, the tech bubble, and the recession. Jobs are shifting to lower-paying industries paying $8,848 less. Nationwide jobs are growing in industries with low-paying jobs and shrinking in industries with higher-paying jobs. On average, jobs in growing industries pay $8,848 less than jobs in shrinking industries – that is 27 percent less. (Analysis of BLS data from January 2001 through August 2004; Economic Report of the President, 2002)

[Blaze Diem]

1. Why we ned a Dem majority in the House & Senate..

..the blank check to Bush's self serving "war" needs a payee.

And of course John Kerry needs to replace the stupidest and most anti-American man in the White House.