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

[Brad Haslett]

Rob,

What was the question?

Brad


On 1/12/07, Rob Lowe <rlowe at vt.edu> wrote:
>
> You gotta love Brad's style of debating.  Instead of answering a question,
> just assert something without any supporting evidence.  And if that
> doesn't
> work, just say something is silly and avoid the issue.  How needs facts?
> Bush was not in charge when 9/11 happened?  Already the history books are
> being rewritten.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brad Haslett" <flybrad at gmail.com>
> To: "The Rhodes 22 mail list" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 9:28 AM
> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] The Democrats new promise "A New Direction
> for
> America" (Political)
>
>
> > 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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