http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/05/11/con05453.html
November 28, 2005
Not A Penny More
A BUZZFLASH GUEST CONTRIBUTION
by Stephen Crockett
The Republican Party under the leadership of Bush, Cheney, Frist,
DeLay and crew has pushed the tax burden from the wealthiest of
Americans and large corporations onto the middle class.
They have combined this financial assault on the middle class with
huge cuts in government services for the middle class and the poor.
In order to pay for the huge tax cuts to the wealthiest of the
wealthy, our nation has developed a growing, severe government debt
problem.
Combined with irresponsible government spending on a senseless war in
Iraq and an reckless, ineffective expenditures on homeland security,
the Bush Republican tax cuts for the Super Wealthy has finally
produced a rebellion from both fiscal conservatives and the general
public.
Rumors are being floated that some Republicans close to the Bush White
House would like to eliminate the interest deduction on home mortgages
from federal income tax laws.
This measure would fall harshly on struggling middle class homeowners.
It would badly undermine the real estate, construction and banking
industries.
It is not a reasonable response to the public debt crisis created by
Bush Republican policies.
The middle class and the poor have made enough financial sacrifices in
order to enrich the rich.
These Americans should not provide one penny more as citizens,
taxpayers and voters to the misguided policies of the Bush Republican
elite.
Republicans in Congress and the Senate will likely be defeated in the
next election unless these misguided Bush Republican priorities are
quickly and completely abandoned.
They are facing a taxpayer revolt that could return them to a
permanent, small minority political Party.
The Wall Street interests that finance and control the Bush Republican
political machine has pushed average Americans to the wall
financially.
Price-gouging, out-sourcing and exporting American jobs by large
corporations are serious threats to middle class America.
Government policy under the Bush Administration serves these same Wall
Street policies and threatens middle class America equally.
The nation stands at the threshold of a dramatic choice between
different views of our future.
We will become a nation of a few very wealthy ruling over a huge
majority of working poor if we follow the Bush Republican path.
Our other choice is to remain a predominantly middle class nation
dominated by middle class values like our Founding Fathers envisioned.
It is the firm belief of this writer that American citizens will side
with our Founding Fathers.
American Democracy is at stake along with the American Dream.
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http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/
U.S. NATIONAL DEBT CLOCK
The Outstanding Public Debt as of 28 Nov 2005 at 03:23:53 PM GMT is:
$8,118,084,088,842.68
The estimated population of the United States is 297,829,854
so each citizen's share of this debt is $27,257.46.
The National Debt has continued to increase an average of
$3.14 billion per day since September 30, 2005!
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