posted on September 6, 2004 10:01:28 AM new
A cut, helen, that's been proposed each year under the Bush administration....didn't happen before...only great increases...and won't be happening at all under this administration.
I don't think anyone believes THIS President is going to make cuts to our military. But it does make for great humor.
It's pure entertainment to watch you point out what you would fully support in a NY minute, helen.
posted on September 6, 2004 10:05:16 AM new
Oh and twelve....I seriously doubt that he/she is a doctor ....but I'd have no way of knowing the truth of that situation.
posted on September 6, 2004 10:29:35 AM new
The neo-cons really look for the most miniscule pieces of information and run with it. Theresa has an upset stomach and it makes major headlines. John Kerry windsurfs, major headlines. You really reach for the news on Kerry. Perhaps because you have nothing else to attack him on. Perhaps because your moronic candidate has been a miserable failure and you simply want to find some small tidbit to make you feel better since there really is no good news coming from Republicans.
Hmmm. I remember ebayauctionguy (another neo-con) celebrating the polls showing Bush in the lead, then you have neo-con twelvepole knocking the poll of Kerry with organized labor unions claiming
"A poll?... are they just silly." So, do the neo-cons like the polls or not? Do they only think a poll is accurate when it favors their candidate? Linda K seems to jump on any bandwagon that she can, looking for the most obscure news possible. Bear can't speak for himself, except in short sentances that a 3rd grader could decipher (I see bear now uses the cut and paste to speak for him. I bet bear learned that from Linda).
posted on September 6, 2004 10:37:55 AM new"I don't think anyone believes THIS President is going to make cuts to our military. But it does make for great humor."
lindak, We all know the value of your "opinion" on the Bush budget.
As I said before, the Veterans Affairs budget will get a $519 million increase in 2005, and then, according to the memo, a $910 million cut in 2006. Under pressure to reduce a 500+ million dollar budget along with his corporate welfare programs to maintain, guess who will be funded...if he is reelected.
Excerpt from John Kerry's speech to Veterans...9/1/04
"The job will be done when the VA secretary doesn't have to complain publicly that he needs $1.2 billion more because he was turned down by a White House that spent the money on tax cuts for those at the top instead. I believe veterans come first."
posted on September 6, 2004 11:01:11 AM new "Oh and twelve....I seriously doubt that he/she is a doctor ....but I'd have no way of knowing the truth of that situation."
lindak I've noticed an unwelcoming committee here from the right wing corner where you sit. I hear grunts and squeaks and squawks all the time from that corner -- just like the animals in the Drdolittle book. It just occurred to me that maybe Drdolittle is basing his ID on the children's book character. It certainly would be fitting. Don't you think?
posted on September 6, 2004 12:14:35 PM new
rusty - I'd love to speak with you or any leftie on kerry's 20+ years in the Senate....but there's little that he accomplished ...so that's out.
Then on talking about his 'platform' why don't you start a thread and open discussion on where he stands on just how he's going to pay for all the programs he's promising. OR why not discuss just how he plans to do better than this President has done, with the situation in Iraq? Oh...that's right...you can't..because kerry won't say what he's going to do. We just get told he'll do it better and 'he'll let us know' after he's elected.
since there really is no good news coming from Republicans.
I think last week brought losts of good news for the republican side. More watched the Republican convention than they did the democratic one. The President's poll numbers are UP in the polls...by differing degrees. Two democratic leaders have decide to speak out about why Bush would make a better president than kerry.
And most of all reading that kerry is just so upset with his campaign staff...and has brought in the clinton 'guns' who are telling him to go on the attack mode....shows things haven't been going well for kerry. That's always good news for Bush supporters.
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Those are only two reasons why we need to:
posted on September 6, 2004 01:57:19 PM new
Drdolittle here, just talking to the animals, trying to enlighten all the Chimps and Chimpanzees.. LOL
After Four Years:
-- Bush Has a Record of Failure on Key Issues: Jobs, Economy, Health Care, Homeland Security and National Security.
-- Bush Has Failed to Come Up With a Single New Idea To Change His Course of Failure.
-- Bush Continued His Negative Campaign of Misleading About John Kerry's Record.
BUSH HAS FAILED AMERICA
BUSH FAILED TO PROTECT OUR HOMELAND FROM ATTACK
First, Bush opposed the creation of the Department of Homeland Security. Since 9/11, he's failed to adequately fund our nation's first responders, cutting first responder training grants by nearly half in his 2005 budget. Bush has failed to secure the nation's ports and borders, properly screen air and sea cargo, or create a unified terror watch list. Today, only 5 percent of the cargo coming into the nation's ports is properly screened, most air cargo goes unscreened, and only one border agent is available for patrol per every 5 miles of the U.S. Canadian border. Bush has cut funding for first responder training by nearly half, cut port security grants by 75 percent, and has plans to cut DHS funding by $1 billion if he is re- elected. (http://releases.usnewswire.com/redir.asp?ReleaseID=35613&Link=http://www.omb.gov; Deseret Morning News, 7/20/03; The Hill, 4/30/03; Sarasota Herald-Tribune, 8/01/04; Washington Post, 5/27/04)
BUSH FAILED AMERICA'S KIDS BY BREAKING HIS WORD ON EDUCATION
In total, Bush's budget requests have underfunded No Child Left Behind by $27 billion. Twenty-two state legislatures have considered over the past two years calling for changes in No Child Left Behind or opting out of the legislation altogether. Additionally, Bush has continually broken his 2000 campaign promise to increase Pell Grant awards to $5,100, leaving needy college students without the resources they need to pay for skyrocketing tuition costs. (http://releases.usnewswire.com/redir.asp?ReleaseID=35613&Link=http://www.ed.gov; www.nea.org; The Wallace Foundation, http://releases.usnewswire.com/redir.asp?R...foundation.org; GAO, May 2003; Center for Education Policy, May 2004 Education Week, 1/7/04)
BUSH FAILED ON HEALTH CARE: AMERICA IS SICKER UNDER BUSH
The number of uninsured has swelled under Bush by 5.2 million to a total of 45.0 million, 15.6 percent of the total population. Since 2000, the percentage of Americans with health coverage through their job has dropped 3.2 percent to just 60.4 percent. (Census Bureau, Current Population Reports)
Families are paying $792 (49 percent) more in health expenses and individuals are paying $168 (50 percent) more than just four years ago. (Kaiser/HRET Survey of Employer Health Benefits 2003)
Although Bush signed his Medicare bill in December 2003, seniors will not see cheaper prescription prices when it is implemented in 2006, because it does nothing to control the rising cost of drugs. According to Consumers Union, "most beneficiaries will face higher out-of-pocket costs for prescription drugs after full implementation, despite the benefit." (Consumers Union, 11/17/03)
BUSH FAILED OUR TROOPS WITH HIS FAILURE TO BUILD A REAL COALITION
At least 976 American troops have been killed in Iraq, accounting for nearly 90 percent of the casualties. The 138,000 American troops in Iraq comprise nearly 90 percent of the troops in the coalition. Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE) said about the Iraq war: "We weren't prepared for an occupation. We made a tremendous amount of mistakes. We did essentially go after this in a unilateral way." (Brookings Institution, "Iraq Index," 9/1/04; CNN, "Inside Politics," 7/1/04)
BUSH'S FAILURE TO HAVE A SINGLE NEW IDEA
BUSH LEAVES 99 percent OF COUNTRY BEHIND ON JOBS
In a desperate, last minute attempt to say something about the 2.7 million manufacturing jobs that have been lost, George Bush is renaming existing government programs as Opportunity Zones. Now, George Bush will pick 20 lucky communities to get tax credits for small businesses and job creation. He has nothing to offer the other 3,121 counties - 99 percent of America is left out of George Bush's plan.
BUSH RECYCLES TIRED SOCIAL SECURITY PRIVATIZATION SCHEME
In the 2000 campaign George Bush released his Social Security plans - it was four principles plus a Social Security Commission. This time around, George Bush is releasing the same exact plan. But he's not telling you that his Commission already met, came up with a plan, and that it would cut benefits by up to 45 percent, borrow $2 trillion over the next decade to pay for the transition, and tax away 80 percent of the individual account that the worker supposedly owns. (Social Security Administration, Office of the Actuary, "Estimates of Financial Effects for Three Models Developed by the President's Commission to Strengthen Social Security," January 31, 2002 and CBO, "Long- term Analysis of Plan 2 of the President's Commission to Strengthen Social Security," 7/21/2004)
BUSH'S RECYCLED HEALTH PLAN ACTUALLY DRIVES COSTS UP
With health care premiums for families up 50 percent since George W. Bush took office, he failed to offer any new plans to help middle class families. The same old plans he offered will do nothing but increase costs and threaten coverage for millions of families. (Kaiser Family Foundation; CBO)
BUSH HAS LEARNED NOTHING ON EDUCATION IN FOUR YEARS
Bush says he wants to reform America's high schools, but he has had four years and has failed to do it. Bush can talk all he wants about new education proposals, but America's families know that he hasn't gotten the job done. Bush has fallen $27 billion short of funding No Child Left Behind and has allowed one-third of American students to drop out of high school. He has weakened accountability in high schools and pushed out low-achieving students. Yet again, President Bush is trying to cover up his record of failure over the last four years.
BUSH WANTS TO RAISE TAXES ON MIDDLE CLASS BY BILLIONS
Brookings Economist William Gale writes, "To replace all federal taxes on a revenue-neutral basis over the next 10 years would require a sales tax rate of about 60 percent." To cover just income taxes, the national sales tax would have to be at least 26 percent. (William Gale, "A Note on the Required Tax Rate in a National Retail Sales Tax," 8/12/04)
BUSH CONTINUES TO MISLEAD ABOUT JOHN KERRY'S RECORD
BUSH IS MISLEADING ABOUT JOHN KERRY AND PRESCRIPTION DRUGS
John Kerry opposed Bush's Windfall for the Drug Companies. He Worked in the Senate to Make Prescription Drugs Affordable. Kerry favors broad-based Medicare prescription drug coverage such as the one he voted for in 2002. (AP, 6/27/03)
BUSH IS MISLEADING ABOUT JOHN KERRY'S PLAN TO CUT TAXES
John Kerry and John Edwards Will Cut Taxes for 98 Percent of American Families and 99 Percent of Businesses. John Kerry strongly supports the sensible tax cuts for the middle class such as repealing the marriage penalty, keeping the child tax credit and tax relief for small. John Kerry will repeal the tax giveaways to the rich and close the offshore loopholes which allow American companies not to pay their fair share. "Kerry called for deeper tax cuts for the middle class than proposed by Bush" (AP, 3/10/04)
BUSH IS MISLEADING ABOUT JOHN KERRY AND REAGAN
Kerry Spoke Out Against Ethical And Legal Lapses Of Reagan Administration.
Kerry, a freshman senator from Massachusetts, the home state of Michael Dukakis, promised that in a Dukakis administration, "the government that makes the laws will not break the law. "And in the America of Jesse Jackson," he said, "the government that says no to drugs will not say yes to General Noriega." "It is time that we once again had a government of laws and not of law- breakers. It's time we had an attorney general of the United States who is an agent of justice and not the target of criminal investigation," Kerry declared. The liberal Democrat raised the ethics issue two days after a special prosecutor released a long- awaited report on Attorney General Edwin Meese III saying the nation's top law enforcement official "probably" violated federal law in his personal finances but committed no crimes in the Wedtech scandal. (AP, 7/21/1988)
BUSH IS MISLEADING ABOUT JOHN KERRY'S VOTES ON IRAQ
Kerry Objected To Bush's Failure To Develop A Real Plan In Iraq. Kerry opposed spending $87 billion -- at the expense of health care, education and domestic priorities here at home -- without a strategy that protects the troops and makes America safer. Rather than asking for shared sacrifice from Americans, Bush refused to repeal any of his tax cut for the wealthiest to pay for rebuilding Iraq. John Kerry, along with Joe Biden, proposed an amendment to spread the sacrifice.
posted on September 6, 2004 02:16:24 PM new
Dr.D - I remember you starting a thread so we could discuss the issues....only a handful responded.
The left doesn't want to really 'talk' issues...they want, and do continue making false alligation that time and time, on an individual basis have been disproven.
Just because the kerry campaign says something.....doesn't mean it's actually true. Politicans are free to tell lies and stories and they do. kerry's a superb example of that.
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Those are only two reasons why we need to:
posted on September 6, 2004 02:34:50 PM new
"Politicans are free to tell lies and stories and they do."
Linda- you've obviously done too many drugs in your life if you seriously believe that your statement applies to Kerry and not to Georgie Porgie Puddin' Pie, the true commander and thief.
I have to admit, you are absolutely right about that one sentance. How about that, we agree on something. Show me one honest politician who has never lied, and I'll give you my beach front property on mars.
posted on September 6, 2004 06:51:13 PM new
Wait..hold up..
Linda said: The left doesn't want to really 'talk' issues...they want, and do continue making false alligation that time and time, on an individual basis have been disproven.
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The posts are about the "Issues" that the Left, are talking about. You see, we on the Left have huge issues with President Bush's, Records of failure on Key Issues, and not to mention how he uses those sneaky diversion tactics to sweep these very issues under the carpet.
As far as the left making false allegations, that have time and again been disproved...
disproved by whom.. help me out here profe.. is it who or whom... anyway, If you mean disproved by your c&p's, or what you get from the Bush campaign.. well, that may be the gospel truth in your mind.. but not in mine..
Both sides embellish, and stretch the truth.
Just so happens that the Democrats are more truthful than the Republicans...always have been and always will be.. doesn't always make them the winners.. the good guy doesn't always finish first..but I bet there are more Democrats in Heaven than there are Republicans!! LOL.. Doc
....but I'd have no way of knowing the truth of that situation.
