Dick Cheney said the economy is fine because people make money on eBay. But it is the Bush White House that's auctioning off policy to the highest bidder.
What Bush/Cheney auctioned: Medicare
What Bush got: $5.2 million from insurance/HMO industry; $1.4 million from pharmaceutical industry.
What they got: HMOs got $12 billion in subsidies to lure people out of Medicare, and $6.8 billion for privatized "health savings accounts"; drug corporations got $139 billion in projected profits; no re-importation of prescription drugs; and a prohibition on bulk purchasing to lower prices.
What we got: Higher prescription drug prices; highest Medicare premium hike in history.
What Bush/Cheney auctioned: Clean Air
What Bush got: $1.3 million from electric utilities industry
What they got: Rollback in the Clean Air Act that allows coal-fired plants to pollute more; possible "get out of jail free card" from pending lawsuits.
What we got: Likely increase in asthma attacks among children and seniors.
What Bush/Cheney auctioned: Tax Policies
What Bush got: $18.4 from commercial banks, securities firms and accountants
What they got: No crack down on offshore tax shelters; a sharp decline in audits of corporations; capital gains, dividend and personal taxes cut so that investors pay a lower rate than workers.
What we got: $85 billion a year in lost revenue from the off-shore tax loophole alone.
Hmmm! I wonder who will be making up all of this lost revenue?
posted on September 15, 2004 02:22:44 PM new
Nice picture yeager.
I would love to leave Bush a neg for the job he has done the past three years.
Where does he get all that money...He didn't. That is why the country went from having a surplus to having a such a large deficit. DICK CHENEY SUPPORTS MY RELATIONSHIP: People ought to be free to enter into any kind of relationship they want to
Let's have a BBQ, Texas style, ROAST BUSH
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YOU CAN'T HAVE BULLSH** WITH OUT BUSH.
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posted on September 15, 2004 03:35:18 PM new
parklane64 can't defend Bush Cheney so goes BLAH BLAH BLAH and says NOTHING. Just another Bush voter that wants another 4 years of counting their money while the middle class and working class hurt more.
parklane64 is just another greedy,cold hearted money counter in my opinion. I have asked parklane64 to give me reason to change my opinion and parklane has not. So my opinion of parklane64 remains the same. parklane64 has proved my opinion.
Before you vote think real hard about another 4 years of Bush Cheney and what they will do to this country. Its very scary!!!!
posted on September 15, 2004 04:33:47 PM new
Yea, it's just terrible that the Republicans think people should be able to keep and spend the money they've earned themselves.....rather than be taxed more like the Democrats would do. Dems just LOVE redistributing income and if you don't agree with that...something's just plain wrong with you.
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Those are only two reasons why we need to:
posted on September 15, 2004 04:40:36 PM new
Yeah it is so terrible for the Republicans to keep gaining more and more income while the average worker has to work more and more jobs to support his family.
How many millions does a Republican need to make himself happy?
DICK CHENEY SUPPORTS MY RELATIONSHIP: People ought to be free to enter into any kind of relationship they want to
Let's have a BBQ, Texas style, ROAST BUSH
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YOU CAN'T HAVE BULLSH** WITH OUT BUSH.
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posted on September 15, 2004 05:56:17 PM new
linda says,
Dems just LOVE redistributing income and if you don't agree with that...something's just plain wrong with you.
Well linda, again you didn't think before you spoke. The economy of this country and other industrial countries have been made better by redistributing money. When money flows, then the economy does better. When money sits and does nothing the economy suffers.
What do you think would happen if we didn't have labor unions in this country. The employees of say for example, the Big 3 automakers would be paid less. When they are paid less, they spend less. When they spend less, the economy slows down. So for every dollar that is spent by the auto worker, the economy flourishes. What would happen if the auto worker was paid 8.00 an hour. Currently they make in the area of 18.00 an hour. That extra $10 per hour is $400 per week. When they spend the extra $400 it helps everyone. There is a saying in economics, "nothing happens until somebody buys something".
Now, I do agree with you that people should be able to keep what they earn, but on the other hand I think that I have shown how spreading money helps the economy.
Bigots are miserable people. Prevent Bigotry through Education.
posted on September 15, 2004 06:01:41 PM newYea, it's just terrible that the Republicans think people should be able to keep and spend the money they've earned themselves.....
What a crock. The dems insist that we pay as we go, the reps, including Arnold, cut taxes for the rich and then borrow the money.
posted on September 15, 2004 06:54:50 PM new
Linda_K just minutes ago on CNN they took a straw poll about OUTSOURCING of jobs and did outsourcing make one richer or poorer. 5% said outsourcing made them richer, 84% said outsourcing made them poorer.
LINDA-K, PLEASE GO COUNT YOUR MONEY AND HIDE AND KEEP EVERY CENT WHILE YOUR FAILED LEADERS BUSH CHENEY ARE HURTING MILLIONS OF YOUR FELLOW AMERICAN. LINDA_K MAKE SURE YOU KEEP AND COVET EVERY RED CENT YOU CAN GET YOUR HANDS ON. YOUR KIDS AND GRAND KIDS WILL NEED YOUR MONEY TO PAY OFF THE BUSH CHENEY DEBT.
IF YOU WANT 4 MORE YEARS OF THE BUSH CHENEY CLASS WAR LIKE LINDA_K DOES. THEN VOTE FOR BUSH CHENEY AND YOU WILL GET ALL YOU VOTED FOR PLUS MORE AND MORE AND MORE!!!!!!!
posted on September 15, 2004 07:48:16 PM new
oh brother....bigpeepa's screaming again.
You're going to be in really bad shape *when* President Bush is re-elected.
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When money flows, then the economy does better.
Ugh...one difference between the dems and the republicans, the dems want to take our money and then spend it how THEY see fit. Dems seem to think our government can do a much better job of spending it than can the person who actually earned it themselves. I don't happen to agree, to say the least.
Socialism stinks and that's where the democratic party is heading....quickly.
I'd rather spend my own money - not give more to the government for re-distribution, thank you anyway.
Now if YOU think the government can spend your money better than you can - because they're much more capable of knowing where it should be spent than you do...go for it. Let them spend your money....not MINE.
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"One thing is for sure: the extremists have faith in our weakness. And the weaker we are, the more they will come after us." --Tony Blair
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"The War on Terror will not be won until America is united. And as long as Democrats target the Bush administration -- not the terrorists -- as the enemy, we are in trouble." --Oliver North
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Those are only two reasons why we need to:
posted on September 15, 2004 08:07:39 PM new
"The Republican convention, when they went to New York, they spent $255 million. Boosted the economy by $255 million. When the Democratic convention was in Boston, they only brought in $14.8 million. People wonder why. Well, sure, Democrats don't like spending their own money. Everybody knows that."
Hey! it turns out the administration's own figures indicate that the agenda Bush has been laying out since the convention represents in excess of $3 trillion in spending. Remember all those promises you were worried about???
posted on September 15, 2004 10:39:20 PM new
Here's an interesting fact, the Republican Convention boosted the New York economy $255 million. But the Democrat Convention in Boston only netted it $14.8 million. People wonder why it was so much less? Sure, Democrats don't like spending their own money. ....Jay Leno Hey, hey Ho, ho Kerry - sign the 1-8-0
posted on September 16, 2004 04:19:00 AM new
LINDA-K, PLEASE GO COUNT YOUR MONEY AND HIDE AND KEEP EVERY CENT WHILE YOUR FAILED LEADERS BUSH CHENEY ARE HURTING MILLIONS OF YOUR FELLOW AMERICAN.
LINDA_K MAKE SURE YOU KEEP AND COVET EVERY RED CENT YOU CAN GET YOUR HANDS ON. YOUR KIDS AND GRAND KIDS WILL NEED YOUR MONEY TO PAY OFF THE BUSH CHENEY DEBT.
YOU ARE NOTHING BUT A GREDDY COLD HEARTED MONEY COUNTER. PEOPLE LIKE YOU DESERVE NO RESPECT FROM ME.
lINDA_k SAID, "You're going to be in really bad shape *when* President Bush is re-elected." WRONG LINDA THE COUNTRY WILL BE IN BAD SHAPE IF BUSH CHENEY GETS RE-ELECTED. MUCH WORST THAN IT IS NOW.
posted on September 16, 2004 08:16:12 AM new
Ugh...one difference between the dems and the republicans, the dems want to take our money and then spend it how THEY see fit. Dems seem to think our government can do a much better job of spending it than can the person who actually earned it themselves. I don't happen to agree, to say the least.
I would like to see Bush spend his own money on the war in Iraq instead of spending money and the money of future generations.
Bush signed the NCLB Act and then made the states fund it.
Bush is good at letting others pay for his initiatives.
DICK CHENEY SUPPORTS MY RELATIONSHIP: People ought to be free to enter into any kind of relationship they want to
Let's have a BBQ, Texas style, ROAST BUSH
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YOU CAN'T HAVE BULLSH** WITH OUT BUSH.
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Prevent Bigotry through Education.
