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Politics > Politics-USA |
| User: |
"Bill" |
| Date: |
07 Oct 2004 02:55:40 PM |
| Object: |
The failed Bush administration |
The Bush administration is an absolute catastrophe for America. His military
adventures have failed to accomplish their goals. His economic programs are
leading us into extremely serious economic problems. His other efforts are
helping his wealthy supporters at the expense of everyone else. This man is
no Republican conservative. He reminds me of the vote pandering Lyndon
Johnson.
Bush started a war in Iraq based on his weak ( and false ) claims that Iraq
was a threat to the world with WMD. What was the reality?
Based on evidence from an Iraqi defector, code named "Curve Ball", who was a
known alcoholic and liar we used this excuse to over rule the UN and invade
Iraq.
According to the U. S. CIA fact book, Iraq's annual military expenditures
were a measly $1.3 billion versus the U. S. military budget of over $350
billion. It's neighbors military expenditures exceeded $40 billion. Iraq had
NO long-range bombers, NO blue water Navy and it only had a limited
inventory of missiles with an inaccurate range of less than 120 miles. It
had a poorly equipped army with obsolete weapons from the Soviet Union era.
Iraq's neighbors were so unconcerned about an Iraq threat that NON OF THEM
would join Bush in his invasion of Iraq.
The cost of this blunder is over 15,000 lives (Over 1,000 Americans) and
many more seriously and permanently disabled. The cost to tax payers is
approximately $200 BILLION dollars and rising. And this while the Federal
government is running up over $400 BILLION dollar annual deficits and
running the country on borrowed funds. Most Iraqi's did not and do not now
support the United States invasion of Iraq. This is why the war continues
unabated.
While wasting all these resources, the real threat is still Al Qaeda/Osama
bin Laden. We have spent three years and only one tenth as much in manpower
and resources to subdue Al Qaeda and capture Osama. The evidence is that Al
Qaeda is a growing threat and Osama has yet to be captured. There is NO,
NADA objective evidence that Iraq was supporting or aiding Al Qaeda. There
is only politically motivated and unsubstantiated propaganda to this effect.
While misdirecting resources like this, the world annual death rate for AIDS
is over 5,000,000 ( and several hundred thousand in the U. S.). Over
10,000,000 children die each year from malnutrition and curable diseases. We
wasted huge resources in Iraq while only allocating $5 billion over five
years to the international war on AIDS and even less fighting serious
diseases like TB and Malaria. What compounds the disaster is that one third
of the money allocated for AIDS must be spent on failed programs promoting
abstinence.
Now our highways and National Parks are punishingly over crowded yet Bush
and company want to legalize 10 to 15 million illegal aliens so he can
pander for the Hispanic vote. These illegal aliens are costing taxpayers
billions in welfare expenditures.
The Bush team is very dishonestly bragging about their tax cuts and the
recovering economy. This is pure legerdemain. He has increased Federal
spending by a record 29% during his first four years in office and is paying
for the tax cuts ( mainly to the wealthy) by running up huge Federal
deficits. This is only temporarily stimulating the economy.
According to the Congressional Budget Office, the bush administration has
turned a ten-year projected surplus of $5.6 trillion into a deficit of $4.4
trillion: a turnaround of $10
trillion in roughly 32 months.
The Bush Administration can't even pretend to keep an arm's length from
Halliburton, the master of the no-bid government contract. Sugar, grain,
cotton, oil, gas and coal: These industries enjoy increased subsidies and
targeted tax breaks not enjoyed by less connected industries. The
conservative Heritage Foundation blasts the administration's agricultural
subsidies as the nation's most wasteful corporate welfare program.
The libertarian Cato Institute called the administration's energy plan
"three parts corporate welfare and one part cynical politics...a smorgasbord
of handouts and subsidies for virtually every energy lobby in Washington"
that "does little but transfer wealth from taxpayers to well-connected
energy lobbies." And the Republican Party's Medicare drug benefit, the
largest single expansion of the welfare state since Lyndon Johnson's Great
Society, was designed to appeal to senior citizens who, as any competent
politician knows, show up at the polls.
There is no free lunch. This mounting national debt will have to be paid
for, after the election, by huge tax increases or deflating the debt by a
rebound in inflation and probably both.
In short, the Bush/Chenny regime is an unmitigated catastrophe. Do not
reward and encourage this gross mismanagement by giving them another four
years.
--
Bill
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