Bush ignores median incomes, health care, gas prices to tout economy

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

Monday, April 17, 2006 | 5:35 p.m. ET
From Mark Murray

Unwilling to let the White House have the last word on taxes and the economy on this Tax Day (especially with Congress out on Easter recess), Democrats have issued a flurry of press releases to counter President Bush's claims earlier today that his administration's tax cuts have benefited small businesses and have helped the economy.

A statement by the Democratic National Committee noted Bush failed to mention that median household incomes have declined; that health-care costs have skyrocketed; and that gas prices are once again going up.

Meanwhile, Senate Leader Harry Reid's communications office issued a release arguing that most of Bush's tax cuts have actually benefited the rich, not small businesses.

And Sen. John Kerry, the Democrats' failed presidential nominee in 2004, wrote a letter to Treasury Secretary John Snow making that same point. He asked Snow to make numbers public from a Treasury document entitled "Tax Relief Kit," which liberal New York Times columnist Paul Krugman had used to calculate that the top 1% of taxpayers have received 32% of the tax cuts.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3626796/

[Deja Q]

1. The wealthy are his people. The rest of us are no different than tools.

Cookie cutters.

Ready to be discarded when rusty.

I'll be happy when he proves he is true to his electioneering words.

[MadMaddie]

2. Yea why would he mention the average tax paying American...

they really aren't that important ...Rat Bastard...:sarcasm:

[C_U_L8R]

3. I posted these few facts on another thread

- and I'm sure there are plenty more facts that prove the WHite House is lying (again)

======
According to the Federal Reserve Board's recent Survey of Consumer Finances,
median net worth (assets minus debt) from 2001 through 2004 rose just 1.5% to $93,100.
Way to go Bushie!!! (sarcasm)

According to the Bureau of Economic Analysis, the nation's personal-saving rate
--income minus consumption and interest payments --
turned negative in April 2005 for the first time since 1933.... since 1933 !!!!

The Census Bureau show that the perentage of owned homes has begun declining
after 10 consecutive years of (democrat) growth --69.2% in late 2004 to 69% of families in late '05 --
suggests a limit to the percentage of households that want or can buy a home at current prices.

Again.. the White House is lying to you... George Bush is lying to you...
Throw this BUM out !!!! We cannot afford to have one more week of this idiot.

[sandnsea]

4. Tax Accountability Day

After we pay our taxes, we need to scream about where our money is going and how it's being collected. Enough of this phony "keeping our money" bullshit. If we get a penny back over what we previously paid, we're lucky, and they're charging more to debt than they're returning to us anyway.

And where they're spending it? No more.

http://www.truemajority.org/oreos

More links and info:

http://www.lightupthedarkness.org/blog/