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Money Talks
« on: April 12, 2006, 04:38:32 AM »
a budget is all about priorities, about giving voice to purpose, literally putting your money where your mouth is.  Rhetoric and platitudes wither in the face of spread sheets.  Put up or shut up.

Not that we need any more evidence of where bush stands in the conflict of workers versus bosses.  But the numbers and sheer audacity of what he is proposing for the 2007 budget are staggering, especially for a president with the lowest approval ratings in history.  Ever since he usurped the election of 2000, bush has been on a mad dash to squeeze every dollar out of the heart and bone of every worker and loot as much wealth as possible from the environment.  And since then he's gone faster and madder, as if the time is running out to do as much damage as possible.

The vicious inhumanity of his plan is almost inconceivable.  But its singular focus, its unwavering aim at workers and the poor, cannot be motivated by anything less than class hatred, even by someone as delusional as bush.

The biggest cuts directly target the health and lives of workers-$36 billion taken from the medicare program over the next five years, another $12 billion sucked from medicaid over the same peiod, and funding stripped from all OSHA (Occupational Safety & Health Assn.) worker safety training programs.

Bush plans to cut $3.1 billion from the Dept. of Education in just 2007 alone, much of that in student loans.  And he wants to reduce the Environmental Protection Agency's budget in 2007 by another $300 million, most of that in cuts aimed at water and air pollution.

At a time when poverty is rising, job growth is the worst since the great depression and the gap between the rich and the poor continues to grow,  he wants to cut or eliminate employment training and placement programs.  And as free trade agreements cause more losses of decent-paying manufacturing jobs, he proposes mor cuts in the Trade Adjustment Assistance Program that is supposed to provide income support and retraining for workers whose jobs are outsourced.

Perversely, whats making these cuts appear necessary are bush's other cuts, his tax cuts for the rich.  Just as the temporary authorization for those cuts are about to expire, he is proposing to make them permanent, costing the US Treasury $1.35 trillion over the next 10 years, more than enough to pay for all the medicare and medicaid cuts and prop up social security at the same time.

Then there's the unbudgeted expense of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars-$350 billion in just 'supplemental' funds for 3003-2006 with another $50 billion already requested for 2007 and counting.  the war has brought nothing but death, destruction and misery.   It is destroying the American economy and has already destroyed Iraq's.  Polls show the majority of americans, including a majority of the military, want the war ended.  And a majority believe Iraq will descend into civil war, as if that isn't already happening.  The republicans are dizzy trying to spin this one into a successful midterm election strategy.

But talk is cheap.  Actions speak louder than words.  Take some.

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Re: Money Talks
« Reply #1 on: April 12, 2006, 04:42:19 AM »
Thats what you get when you (as a nation) elect the idiot son of an asshole as President, four years after he and his cronies rigged the last one... thats assuming he didn't rig Ohio this time around.  ::)

Bush = Cunt

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Re: Money Talks
« Reply #2 on: April 12, 2006, 04:44:44 AM »
Thats what you get when you (as a nation) elect the idiot son of an asshole as President, four years after he and his cronies rigged the last one... thats assuming he didn't rig Ohio this time around.? ::)

Bush = Cunt

American voters=sheep
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Re: Money Talks
« Reply #3 on: April 12, 2006, 06:39:48 AM »
Democracy will never work until people can count beyond 2.  Democrat or Republican is not an option; it's an innevitability.
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Re: Money Talks
« Reply #4 on: April 12, 2006, 06:42:13 AM »
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Re: Money Talks
« Reply #5 on: April 12, 2006, 09:08:48 AM »
Thats what you get when you (as a nation) elect the idiot son of an asshole as President, four years after he and his cronies rigged the last one... thats assuming he didn't rig Ohio this time around.? ::)

Bush = Cunt

American voters=sheep

American voters= people who don't whine online about how other countries voted.
George:I'd say I'm sorry to disappoint you, but I'm not. I excel at not giving a shit. Experience has taught me that interest begets expectation, and expectation beget disappointment, so the key to avoiding disappointment is to avoid interest. A equals B equals C Equals A, or whatever. I also don't have a lot of interest in being a good person or a bad person. From what I can tell, either way, you're screwed. Bad people are punished by society's laws, and good people are punished by Murphy's Law

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Re: Money Talks
« Reply #6 on: April 12, 2006, 09:14:55 AM »
true
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Re: Money Talks
« Reply #7 on: April 12, 2006, 09:29:24 AM »
Thats what you get when you (as a nation) elect the idiot son of an asshole as President, four years after he and his cronies rigged the last one... thats assuming he didn't rig Ohio this time around.? ::)

Bush = Cunt

American voters=sheep

American voters= people who don't whine online about how other countries voted.

Dont force your economic and military policies on the world and i wont care one iota about your fucked up countries inbred leadership.

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Re: Money Talks
« Reply #8 on: April 12, 2006, 09:31:24 AM »
Why can't we outsource Bush's job to India?

Hell I think mickey mouse would make a better president or we can go to even bigger extreme and make ME president and this counttry would still be in better shape than it is now. :o

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Bush plans to cut $3.1 billion from the Dept. of Education in just 2007 alone, much of that in student loans.  And he wants to reduce the Environmental Protection Agency's budget in 2007 by another $300 million, most of that in cuts aimed at water and air pollution.

What a fuckhead!  >:(  does he want everyone to be as stupid and ignorant as him? It's good thing I got my degree before Bush made this genius decision. He's a leader who's only looking out for himself, and not giving two shits about his people. Kind of reminds of someone we all know and love.

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At a time when poverty is rising, job growth is the worst since the great depression and the gap between the rich and the poor continues to grow,  he wants to cut or eliminate employment training and placement programs.  And as free trade agreements cause more losses of decent-paying manufacturing jobs, he proposes mor cuts in the Trade Adjustment Assistance Program that is supposed to provide income support and retraining for workers whose jobs are outsourced.

The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. i can't help but wonder if the inflated gas prices have something to do with Bush since his family has invested in the oil companies.

Did you know ExxonMobile made an anual income of 36 billion dollars. Thats a 42% increase from last year, thats one of the biggest increases in the history of this country. As of 2003 they have an annual revenue of $247.6 billion.

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Then there's the unbudgeted expense of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars-$350 billion in just 'supplemental' funds for 3003-2006 with another $50 billion already requested for 2007 and counting.  the war has brought nothing but death, destruction and misery.   It is destroying the American economy and has already destroyed Iraq's.  Polls show the majority of americans, including a majority of the military, want the war ended.  And a majority believe Iraq will descend into civil war, as if that isn't already happening.  The republicans are dizzy trying to spin this one into a successful midterm election strategy.

And their wasting tons of money that could be going torwards more importants things like medicare ,social security and education. They just don't get it. Why do Bush and the republicans have the compulsive need to meddle in other people's foreign affairs? Sadaam has been captured from what I understand. So why are we still there? Their's no point, it's gonna take years maybe decades for things to settle over there whehter we're there or not? So why even bother?

And now, a word from the President!
Damn it feels good to be a gangsta
Gettin voted into the White House
Everything lookin good to the people of the world
But the Mafia family is my boss
So every now and then I owe a favor gettin' down
like lettin' a big drug shipment through
And send 'em to the poor community
So we can bust you know who
So voters of the world keep supportin' me
And I promise to take you very far
Other leaders better not upset me
Or I'll send a million troops to die at war
To all you Republicans, that helped me win
I sincerely like to thank you
Cuz now I got the world swingin' from my nuts
And damn it feels good to be a gangsta
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Re: Money Talks
« Reply #9 on: April 12, 2006, 09:34:20 AM »
Thats what you get when you (as a nation) elect the idiot son of an asshole as President, four years after he and his cronies rigged the last one... thats assuming he didn't rig Ohio this time around.? ::)

Bush = Cunt

American voters=sheep

American voters= people who don't whine online about how other countries voted.

Dont force your economic and military policies on the world and i wont care one iota about your fucked up countries inbred leadership.

Hey! Inbreeding doesn't happen in Texas. That's in Tennessee, Alabama, and Mississppi. Oh and that guy with the polygamist compound.
George:I'd say I'm sorry to disappoint you, but I'm not. I excel at not giving a shit. Experience has taught me that interest begets expectation, and expectation beget disappointment, so the key to avoiding disappointment is to avoid interest. A equals B equals C Equals A, or whatever. I also don't have a lot of interest in being a good person or a bad person. From what I can tell, either way, you're screwed. Bad people are punished by society's laws, and good people are punished by Murphy's Law

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Re: Money Talks
« Reply #10 on: April 12, 2006, 10:25:40 AM »
Citizens all over the world, not least those in Iraq, Venezuela, the whole of the Middle East, etc etc = people with good reason to bitch about the moronic choice made by American voters.  :P  >:(

If the Bush administration were not so intent on forcing their ecomonic and social worldview on the rest of us, maybe we'd have a bit less to fucking complain about eh?

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Re: Money Talks
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