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Re: Got a letter from Bush !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LOL it's sad how gullible some people are, and some I'm sure don't read the papers and will probably fall for this stuff.
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President Bush has a record of historic achievement |
The greatest American jobs loss record since Herbert Hoover in the 1930s; the largest budget deficit in history in terms of sheer numeric value; preemptive war; drilling, mining, and clear-cutting in National Parks, preserves, and forests previously set aside as wilderness; endorsement of writing discrimination into the US Constitution for the first time ever to make millions of people second class citizens permanently.
Historic indeed.
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and a positive vision for the years ahead |
What planet is he living on? If NASA needs a test chimp for the planned mission to Mars, I know of a good candidate.
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for winning the war against terror, |
By causing Al Queda's ranks to swell and leading approval % figures of the US in the Arab world to fall to single digits?
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extending peace and freedom throughout our world, |
One cluster bomb at a time
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and creating jobs and opportunity here at home.
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At WalMart and McDonalds.
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cutting defense spending, Kerry has repeatedly voted to cut funding for defense and intelligence, voted to cancel the very weapons systems that are winning the war on terror and maintaining our military strength,
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Early in his career he opposed some of Reagan's military spending, particularly a type of nuclear missile and his idiotic "star wars" thing. Oh, and Kerry was right about the B2 bomber.
But later in his career, since about 1996 he voted for almost every major military expenditure:
http://www.factcheck.org/article.aspx?docID=147
Based on the first Bush's record, you could also say he endorsed "gutting intelligence and the military" etc etc.
Some of the Republican attack is legit criticism, but much is fabrication.
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and send our nation back to the tired, failed policies of the past.
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Like Bill Clinton's huge budget surplus, stock market highs, and 20+ million new jobs created? I wish we had more of those kinds of “failures” now.
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and he has voted against common-sense tax relief like the marriage penalty and the death tax.
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I can't verify if he voted against the marriage penalty tax, but the Democratic platform is to make that tax cut permanent. As for the "death tax," that’s just an example of an emotion-loaded name the Republicans give things to give them a negative connotation. A similar example would be “partial birth abortion.”
The death tax is not a tax on death, but is a tax on estates valued in the multi-millions of dollars range. It only applies to a few hundred estates in the whole country.
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As President Bush has said, "On issue after issue, the American people have a clear choice" in this election.
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LOL.
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Wednesday, January 21, 2004
Bush Has the Worst Job Creation Record Since The Great Depression
During President George W. Bush's State of the Union address last night, he boasted that the economy was strong and that his tax cuts were resulting in job growth. In view of the continuing high unemployment in America, one must wonder whether the President was trying to make a lemon taste like lemonade or whether this was just one more attempt to deceive the public. The president's portrayal of the state of the economy and the employment situation bear little resemblance to the facts.
Not since Herbert Hoover, during the Great Depression of the 1930s, has any president had such a dismal record on job creation. There are 2.3 million fewer jobs in America today than when President George W. Bush took office. With a growing population, the economy must create additional jobs each and every year. If it fails to do so, unemployment will rise and the standard of living will decline. With the kind of record Bush has on job creation, it is a wonder that he even raised the subject during an election year, let alone boasting about it.
When Bill Clinton took office in January 1993, 109.7 million Americans were employed. By the end of Clinton's first term that number had risen by more than 11 million to a total employment of 121.0 million. During Clinton's second term, an additional 11 million jobs were created. Thus, Bill Clinton added more than 22 million jobs to the American economy and during his last year in office the average annual unemployment rate was 3.9 percent--the lowest in 30 years.
Thus the number of Americans employed increased by more than 22 million during the Clinton presidency and has declined by 2.3 million during the George W. Bush presidency. The American people and the American economy have suffered miserably under President George W. Bush. Yet he managed to keep a straight face when he gave his own erroneous appraisal of the state of the economy last night.
Allen W. Smith, Ph.D.
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God helps us all if another Bush ever gets elected, and they still have a bunch more of them. 
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Last edited by DaveSZ on Feb-29-2004 at 23:30
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