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Feb 5, 2007, 16:53 GMT
Bush's 3-trillion-dollar budget boosts war spending
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Impeach the son of a gun.
Chimpeach for peace.
With more Democrats in charge we would be placidly and meekly kowtowing to terrorists and fanatics.
If any CEO managed a company as poorly as Bush has run this country he'd be tossed out in a hurry.
Too bad George Bush did`nt come from a family of doctors or teachers, as one trillion dollars spent on healthcare and education would have huge lasting effects , hence a country of healthy and higly educated people, yet Bush would rather spend vast sums in a defense budget that will eventually only defend the sick and uneducated people of a once powerfull nation.
War mongrel replublicans never seem to see the outside the `WAR MACHINE` box.
Education and healthcare are the future of the people , by the people , for the people.
In god we trust , as that is all that is left for the people of a once proud nation.
God bless ,
The man is ill and out of control. Let us pray for the light to turn on in his life, that he may affect positive change.
'Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time. Hatred ceases through love. This is an unalterable law.' -- Shakyamuni Buddha.
As I read this article, the thought occurred to me:
Can 3 trillion dollars really be considered 'setting a budget'?
Isn't that like saying, I'm going to spend every penny in the world and that's my budget.
Can it be called a budget when there's really no ceiling?
So, with Bush's new budget as inspiration, I am hereby setting my FY 2007 personal beer drinking and music buying budget at 6.8 gazillion. I hope that this figure meets with my wife and family's bipartisan approval.
What really frightens me the most these days is not Bush. 2/3 of America knows he's a disaster. That's old news. It's the 1/3 that still supports him that is truly frightening. How could anyone who has any knowledge of current events support him?
Schools are worse at money management than the Dept of Defense. Many districts are in the hole from spending on worthless initiatives, among other reasons. Giving them more money is not the solution, it's rewarding them for doing a poor job. To be fair, suit-happy individuals have hampered real change - you can't fire incompetent teachers, and you can't discipline children who refuse to learn. If you can't fix the real problem, maybe that witch-doctor psychologist giving the 'Fix our Schools Seminar' might have a solution!
Based on their past track record, what's to prevent schools from wasting more money?
And then there's healthcare. Paying for everyone's healthcare means eventually that paycheck to insurance companies will hit a ceiling. Faced with fixed income, insurance companies have to lower costs. This comes in the form of longer waiting times and unsupported procedures. Ask Canada. Ask the US Military.
I share your angst against President Bush. That said, there's no easy answer by just throwing more money at our domestic problems.
I wish we'd impeach judges who grant unentitled money, but there's a whole other slippery slope.
Peace? You think our stopping the war will result in peace? The only way to obtain peace is through victory.
Withdrawal will result in a larger war, one that will be fought on our shores, and tens to hundreds of millions of civilian casualties.
If anyone thinks that the dems would have somehow bowed to terrorists demands, or not attacked Al Quaeda in response to 9/11, they're (a) making wild assumptions because the dems were not in power post 9/11, until presently, and (b) making the inaccurate assumption Bush has somehow improved our security by attacking Iraq.
By Dubya's own admission, mistakes were made. Further, the neoconservatives used 9/11 to forward a hidden agenda by using faulty intellegence to connect Iraq to Al Quaeda.
No doubt the following is clear (1) Iraq had no WMD (i.e. no immediate threat posed to US security interests), and (2) Saddam Hussein had no documented or proven connection to 9/11 or open support for any terrorist networks (this isn't that crazy when you consider he was a dictator and power monger.)
Now Iraq is a hotbed for secretarian violence and terrorist networks. We're involved in a quagmire with no forseeable end or exit strategy.
Dubya came into office with a budget surplus, great economy, great strides towards healthcare reform, stem cell research, environmental reform, smaller beauracracy, and great increases in domestic education spending.
Now we have a huge deficit, slowing economy with huge consumer debt, no healthcare reform with reduced healthcare spending, legal obstructions to stem cell research, environmental reforms (withdrawing from Kyoto Accord, decreased energy regulation, and greater reliance upon foreign energy), the largest increase in the federal beauracracy in US history (addition of Dept. of Homeland Security), and a failed education policy (HeadStart) coupled with reduced education spending.
Mistakes were definately made, I'm just not sure they're limited to the war in Iraq.
MONIES WELL SPENT! DON'T FORGET 9-11!
Old Nick is right. Have Americans forgotten 9-11? What is wrong with you people who do not see the clear threat Islamic terrorism poses to the U.S.A. and the rest of the civilized world (people of European descent)? If the U.S. does not seek out and destroy all of the fanatical Muslims who hate the West and Israel, Al-Qaeda will take over the world! What good is U.S. money spent on health care, education and improving the condition of the poor when radical Islamists are ready to behead all Americans! Will it take another 9-11 before America comprehends the real threat? Look at our borders, don't you un-patriotic people realize that the Union of Islamic Courts, who were chased out of Somalia, are waiting in Mexico to be smuggled into the U.S. to attack us because of our love of freedom and democracy? What about our northern border? Evil Muslims from Chechnya are in Canada preparing to attack Buffalo, Detroit, Duluth, Spokane and Seattle at this very moment! Do you cowards know that Muslims from Trinidad and Guyana are swimming to the Florida Keys to kill all of the homosexuals! When is America going to wake-up and understand that 9-11 was just the first salvo fired in The Clash of Civilizations? President George W. Bush is a strong and resolute man of courage, a great American hero who carried a fearful nation on his broad shoulders in the days and weeks after 9-11? What is a few billion dollars for this great religious crusade, I mean war, when another 9-11 is being planned? All Americans and freedom loving people are going to have to be ready to make sacrifices. It won't be easy. We'll need to start building internment camps for all of the Muslims in the U.S. and conscript our young men and women into military service to confront this Islamic enemy. After we nuke Iran our troops will have to take control of the oil fields in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. This will be a long hard battle, but the memory of 9-11 will serve as motivation as our armies go to each Muslim country and force the women to strip off those baggy clothes and pose nude for PLAYBOY and make GIRLS GONE WILD videos. The Muslim world needs freedom and democracy! We must wipe-out the Taliban in Afghanistan so we can completely control the opium trade. No opposition to our imperialist foreign policy objectives will be allowed. No threat to Israel will be tolerated, all of the Palestinians and supporters of Hezbullah will be shipped to concentration camps in Germany to be euthanized. These are just the initial steps that must be taken, we must be vigilant or another 9-11 will happen.
Impeaching the 'son-of-a-gun' REALLY sounds like the best plan to me. Perhaps if our representatives stopped posturing in ways that portray us as a nation of bullies we would'nt need such a large defense budget. It is improbable to find sustainable solutions to any conflict without some dialog between adversaries. Rhetorical threats fan the flames of mistrust and imbolden adversaries. The only way to break the cycle is to create a route out of the cycle, not perpetuate its motion! Bush's lack of planning in our militay's invasion of Iraq has put our soldiers in the role of a fouth tribe in an existing three-way tribal dispute. You're doing a 'heckuva job' stabilizing the Middle East Mr. President.
Rather than sending in more of our warriors, a better strategy to solving the problems of the Iraqi people may be to pull out our troops, drop the proposed $170 billion from planes on the populace of Iraq and say, 'sorry we blew up your country'. We could call them afterwards and tell them that if they wished, we would refrain from sending them images of American pastimes such as Brittany Spears exposed crotch and people glutting themselves to the point of physical sickness on Krystal hamburgers (Super Bowl coverage stuff).
If we really believe in the integrity of the Iraqi people, then we should believe that they are capable of making effective alliances to repair the damage we incurred after the big red, white, and blue elephant is gone.
This has been the goal of the neocons all along. They want to 'starve the beast' - the 'beast' in their minds, social programs and 'entitlements. If you have no money left after paying for wars and 'terrorism defense', which they believe is more omporatant than anything, you will be forced to close those programs down. If everything government is privatized, as they wish, then some business somewhere will be making a commission and a profit on every 'social' transaction that takes place, putting money in the pockets of corporations qnd away from ordinary citizens.
They use scare tactics over purported threats scare tactics over these programs taking most of the budget (untrue), and the like to try and get the support of the people. Sincew few look into anything themselves, they eventually succeed in making government irrelevany and having most of our collected taxes go to defense and contractors. Sort of like what is happening in Iraq that they are trying to cover up.
Watch out for the deceptions of this gang.
'Amelia Feb 5th, 2007 - 19:55:57'
Well said Amelia !!!
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George Bush is right to increase the spending on the military. The U.S.'s military is what enables the U.S. to have an international opininion, and gives the U.S. the ability to carry out what should be done.
9-11 WAS an inside job. bush and co either set it up themselves to give the country an excuse to invade the middle east to secure the oil.
its all about needing to create a new enemy too justify the massive military spending which halliburton and co are profiting from. bin laden died 3 years ago but bush needs a bogeyman to continue his hunt around afghanistan whilst securing oil pipelines.
but beware, the real fun is yet to begin. bush and his chums are nearing the end of their term so they will try to seize control of the government via a false 'terror' plot which they will blame on iran and use as an excuse to invade that country. this then allows them to justify stealing that country's oil and declaring martial law in the states.
my guess is a 'dirty' bomb denotated by the FBI in montana around july. then its goodbye american democracy and helo dictator bush. its nothing new- hitler pulled the same stunt with the reichstag fire in the 30's.
George Bush`s new war is not to curb terrorism but a new reality.
Its called ` SCARE`RRORISM `, and the top ten terrorists are as follows.
Healthcare
Medicare
Medicaid
Education
Children
The Elderly
The Poor
The Disabled
The working Poor
Social Security
Heaven help us ..
Anyone who says 9/11 was an inside job immediately invalidates anything else that flows from their idiot mouth.
Why Bush keeps denying there is a civil war in Iraq is incomprehensible!!
In a way, Iraq is much worse off than under Saddam. Why see our military killed in this senseless war and our money being wasted when it won't do any good. All the middle east countries hate the U.S., and it's getting worse.
We need to get out where we don't belong and let Iraq manage their own affairs however they see fit. Our country needs to concentrate on the so-called terriorists that are here already and spend the money on good security. The attacks on 911 didn't happen overnight, they were planned for years. That shouldn't have happened if our country had a better plan for security, and getting in the middle of a civil war isn't the way to do it!!! Bush acts like an angry little kid who is determined that NO ONE is going to tell him what to do, and he won't admit he is wrong about ANYTHING!!! Maybe it's time that the Presidency should not hold as much power as it does, because under this administration it is scary!!!
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