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Politics > Politics-USA |
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"Harry Hope" |
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27 Jan 2004 01:21:56 PM |
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Bush's financial time bomb |
From The Democratic Underground
Tick, Tick, Tick, Tick, Tick
January 27, 2004
By Larry S. Rolirad
Every tick of the clock means that we are an additional $3,541 further
in debt - and that debt is only the debt caused by Bush's war.
So far, the Republican debt for just the Iraq war is a staggering $97
billion, or $97,824,333,662 to be exact.
That amount doesn't include the $85 billion that was recently approved
by the Republican congress, or the $40-100 billion that the Republican
party is planning to ask for after this year's November elections.
How can Republicans find unlimited amounts of money for war, for
killing, and for destroying, but not a dime for peace, for building,
and for creating?
The WarDebt clock is ticking at a rate of a billion dollars every few
days.
Just think of the good that much money could be used for, such as our
country's infrastructure, preschool, children's health, public
education, college scholarships, aid to veterans, helping our elderly,
prescription drugs, and public housing.
It is easy to convince a Republican of a need to kill people, but
almost impossible to get their support to help people.
The Republican party has sunk to depths unimaginable since President
Eisenhower sat in the oval office fifty years ago.
President Eisenhower saw how easily our government could be taken over
by corrupt corporations like the Republican-dominated government we
have today.
He foresaw how corporations could easily dictate our foreign policy
purely for financial gain and to hell with our country, or its people.
After all, corporations have no loyalties to any country, just their
bottom lines.
Remember these wise words from a man who knew that compassion was more
than just a political slogan, "Every gun that is made, every warship
launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft
from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not
clothed." - President Dwight D. Eisenhower, April 16, 1953.
What if we used the money we are squandering on war and destruction
and used it to subsidize alternate forms of energy that would make us
energy independent of Middle East oil?
Being energy-independent would bring more security to our country. But
instead of solving the problem, Bush and his masters are creating new
problems.
Bush wants to go to Mars.
Bush wants to keep our country at war.
Bush wants to give more and more to the wealthy.
And Bush wants to drill for oil in pristine land in Alaska.
There is no incentive for people like Bush and Cheney to do anything
farsighted like developing alternate energy sources to make our
country safer.
They are oil men who are in bed with the corrupt domestic oil
industry, and corrupt foreign oil interests, such as Saudi Arabia.
The biggest enemy to our national security is not outside of our
borders, but rather within, and living in the White House.
We will never be energy independent as long as we have corrupt oil men
running our country.
Their thinking is as old as the fossil fuels that they have enriched
themselves with.
Tick, tick, tick, tick... when the financial bomb goes off it will
mean that the poor and middle classes will have to pay for the
Republican plundering of our national treasury.
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The kid's gotta go.
Harry
"WE WILL SPEND $3.3 TRILLION OVER THE NEXT 10 YEARS ON TOP OF ---ON
TOP OF THE $1.9 TRILLION BUDGET. WE STILL HAVE TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS
LEFT IN THE SURPLUS."
George W. Bush -- Inside Politics, 8/22/00
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| User: "Mani Deli" |
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| Title: Re: Bush's financial time bomb |
27 Jan 2004 04:17:20 PM |
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On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 19:21:56 GMT, Harry Hope <rivrvu@ix.netcom.com>
wrote:
It is easy to convince a Republican of a need to kill people, but
almost impossible to get their support to help people.
The Republican party has sunk to depths unimaginable since President
Eisenhower sat in the oval office fifty years ago.
President Eisenhower saw how easily our government could be taken over
by corrupt corporations like the Republican-dominated government we
have today.
He foresaw how corporations could easily dictate our foreign policy
purely for financial gain and to hell with our country, or its people.
What has always puzzled me is that he had 8 years to do something
about it. Why didn't he?
Bush wants to go to Mars.
He wants to reward his corporate cronies with military projects. Ain't
nobody going to Mars.
Tick, tick, tick, tick... when the financial bomb goes off it will
mean that the poor and middle classes will have to pay for the
Republican plundering of our national treasury.
That may just get them to snap out of the American dream and wake up
to reality.
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