[Rhodes22-list] The Democrats new promise "A New Direction for America" (Political)

[Brad Haslett]

Rob,
I vote for you for Chief Cherry Picker.  The tax cuts for the so called *
uber* rich have worked.  After all, they are the ones who pay the taxes
(read my previous post or do your own research at irs.gov.)  We had a
balanced budget during the last years under Clinton because their was a big
mood swing in 1994 and the new Congress wouldn't fund new social programs
and the dot.com boom brought in record tax revenues. As a good friend of
mine says, "Clinton is the best conservative President we ever had."  Bush
43 changed all that.  He's been a huge social spender, Medicare and the
Dept. of Education just to name two, and yes, war costs a hell of a lot of
money.

Your second observation is so silly I shouldn't even comment.  Read "The
Looming Towers".  Every President since FDR owns a piece of 9/11. Maybe we
should start evaluating Presidential candidates on the quality of their ESP.

Brad

PS - Breathe easy everyone, I really, really do have to go to work.



On 1/12/07, Rob Lowe <rlowe at vt.edu> wrote:
> Hank,
> My Dad sent the same thing to me.  More meaningless drivel.  You can
cherry
> pick event's to make a case that the party in power is doing well/poorly
> anytime.  But to address the lowest hanging fruit.
>
> >
> >
> >
> > *The Federal deficit is down almost 50% over last year, just as
> predicted.*
>
> There was NO federal deficit when Bush was elected.  In fact there was a
> surplus.  To claim sucess for reducing the yearly debt is meaningless.  To
> take it a step farther, when Bush was elected the total Federal debt was
> something like $6 trillion.  It's now $9 trillion.  1/3 of the current
> national debt (in a nation over 200 years old) has been racked up in the
> last 5 years.  Now if that money have been invested in infrastructure or
> gone towards programs that had benefited the general populace, than maybe
> that's tolerable.  But in reality the money went for the most part to the
> uber rich in the form of tax cuts.  Bush's war in Iraq has totaled about
0.5
> trillion so far, also financed with debt.  Which means your children,
> grandchildren, and great-grandchildren will be saddled with it while we
get
> to enjoy our couple hundred dollar a year tax reduction bone that they
threw
> us.
>
> >>
> > *Not a single terrorist attack on US soil since 9/11/01.*
> >\
> >
> 9/11/01?  What an interesting choice of dates.  Why not choose 9/10/01 or
> 9/09/01?  The facts are the worse terrorist attack in the history of our
> country took place under a republican administration.  And this is after
the
> previous administraction told the Bush administration the danger posed by
> Al-Queida, which was not taken seriously.  When will the American people
> hold the Bush administration responsible for failing to protect us?  and
> let's not forget the second worse terrorist attack on Americans, the
bombing
> of the Marine barracks in Lebonon, which happened under President Regan.
> But republicans love to point to the attack on the US Cole (during the
> Clinton adminstration) where 17 sailors were killed.  When republicans
start
> holding republicans accountable then I'll take this stuff seriously.
>
> - Rob
> (all politicians are scum)
>
>
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