Bush Makes More Poor People

From the AP

WASHINGTON - The nation's poverty rate rose to 12.7 percent of the population last year, the fourth consecutive annual increase, the Census Bureau said Tuesday.

Read that again. Poverty increased every year Dubya has been in office. Says something about Dubya's policies.

And lets keep in mind that a family of four was considered living in poverty last year if annual income was $19,307 or less. For a family of two, it was $12,334. How the hell do you live on THAT? If the poverty line was ever moved to what it should be the percentages would be much higher. Of course it is not in any politician's best interest to report ACCURATE poverty figures so they'll never do it.

The Bush Tax Cuts Were a Scam

Everyone pays taxes. You buy a loaf of bread, you pay taxes. You pay tolls on roads you pay taxes. The problem is that if the corporations are paying less taxes (and they are) and the rich are paying less INCOME taxes (and they are) then the difference must be made up.

The lowering of taxes for the rich will only put more of a burden on the middle class and poor and I think we agree their burden is enough already at this point.

Feel free to believe whatever you want but let's face it, the "tax cuts" were a scam. They are really just a "tax deferral" WITH INTEREST.

The Bush administration has raised our tax burden by well over 2 trillion dollars since he took office, and there's no end in sight. With the help of a lapdog Congress, Bush merely cut the rate at which those most able to pay taxes have to pay them. Then he made a hefty surplus (his impetus for tax cuts in the first place) disappear from our treasury, and proceeded to run up half a trillion dollars a year in deficit. The fact that the tax code was adjusted to favor those at the top in no way exonerates the rest of us from having to pay back all the money. What's more, the longer it takes us to do it, the more interest we have to pay.

Bush could have at least tried cutting spending. Currently the U.S. is running a deficit of ONE MILLION DOLLARS A MINUTE. Bush promised budget surpluses....I would have settled for a good attempt at a balanced budget.

Someone will have to pay back these "tax deferrals" and the TAX INCREASE that is coming is going to be a doosey. I look at these tax cuts like a night of hard drinking. Have fun now because the hangover is coming and it's going to hit HARD. Spending money like a drunken sailor is not something I'm interested in continuing.

When you have a deficit, such as the large one this administration created, you can either raise taxes to cover it or pay for it with inflation by allowing market forces to intervene. There is no free lunch in this world.

There should NEVER be a tax cut unless the budget is balanced or running a surplus and a corresponding cut in spending takes place. That's called good sense.

Bush Supporters Should Be Allowed to Park In Handicapped Spaces

Lets face it, the only people that should support Bush are millionaires/billionaires, corporate heads, and Bush's inner circle. That's it. If you are not in the above list you would have to be functionally retarded to support Bush and his policies which seems a fair description of most of the Bush supporters I've seen

No WMD, SS Raided, nation building, environmentally negative legislation, huge deficits, government intervention in private matters, cover ups, deceit, propaganda, whoring themselves out to corporations. This is what the Bush administration is.

To support this is to go against your own interests assuming you aren't a multimillionaire.

Bottom line is, anyone who has an "I voted for Dubya" bumper sticker on their car should be allowed to park in a handicapped space.

A Prediction

With ever falling poll numbers a major (but not full) withdrawal from Iraq will begin sometime in the Summer of 2006 regardless of conditions in Iraq. This will occur we will be told because our mission has been completed but in fact it will be done in a failed attempt to help the GOP in the 2006 elections.

"The United States and Britain are drawing up plans to withdraw the majority of their troops from Iraq by the middle of next year, according to a secret memo written for British Prime Minister Tony Blair by Defense Secretary John Reid," the Washington Post reports.

They want to sit on the info to make it fresh in the minds of voters for the 2006 elections.

The pretend cowboy is playing politics again and soldiers will be paying for this with their lives. Dying for nothing. Since there aren't any elections until 2006 we'll have to wait until then for the Bush administration to "care".

Of course US troops will be in Iraq for the rest of our lifetimes...or until the oil runs out.