And Make war with anything not a Democracy. or have a welfare program for America's poor, and Keep out Troops at Home. The welfare program is no more than a small tip of the War cost , yet when Republicans want to cut the budget the poor are alway receiving the first cut, " and still they claim to be the nly true Christians, Who do they think they are fooling?
2006-10-07 09:01:21 · 11 answers · asked by kritikos43 5 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
The house of cards is beginning to fall.
Many statistics are cherry picked and false assertions are made to support "supply side economics". See Jessi's comments for a prime example!
Only 39% approve of Bush's economic policies, 59% disapprove. Which is correct -- the experience of the average worker, or cherry picked statistics brought to you by the administration and regurgitated by Republican shills such as Jessi?
Latest figures show slow economic growth; it has dropped from more than 5% to 2% . Unemployment is down, but many have given up looking and are not counted. In September, only 51,000 new jobs were created, a drop in the bucket for an economy with 135.6 million workers.
The housing bubble has burst, last year the housing industry added 321,000 jobs, this year, they've only added 6,000. Bellwether signs point to a slowdown and even a recession. Contract and temp workers are the first out the door at the beginning of a recession and these jobs have declined by 36,000 since December.
The gap between the rich and the poor is already greater than it has been in the last 60 years. Let's cut the poor even more as we watch the multi-nationals shutter American plants and ship jobs to sweatshops in Bangalore.
2006-10-07 09:43:50 · answer #1 · answered by ? 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
10 billion a month, 10 billion a month, I had to say it twice. That would do so much good here to home. Instead of good it goes to another land where it has done no good at all. 25 more Iraqi deaths today, two or three of ours get killed every day. Repuglicans worry about abortion and 2750 of our grown best have been killed in a war that started based on a lie that George Bush told the U.S. and the world. Is it any wonder that we are not liked anywhere..
edit: Jessi, supply side economics has never worked. All those things and figures you spout are what they want you to hear and are erroneous to the last one.
2006-10-07 09:12:12 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
see... they want you to think that trickle down economics worked... and they do... but only for the top 10 percent...
so, if you're in the top ten percent, you're doing great!... if not, you're going "where is all this economic prosperity we're hearing so much about?"... your house is worth less, you're paying still more for gas than you were 6 years ago, even with recent drops... and if you get one of those "new jobs"... it's paying quite a bit less than new jobs payed 6 years ago as companies move overseas and more McDonalds open...
and unemployment is still about half a percent higher than when Bush started and the down is only up a very slight percentage (like .0003) since Bush started (it was at record highs when he began)... that's pathetic improvement over 6 years...
2006-10-07 09:50:15 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
A Republican who wants to Give Tax breaks to the wealthy and Make war with anything not a Democracy.
Since I make more than $20,000 a year, I'm considered one of the wealthy.
2006-10-07 09:13:15 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
People want republicans to win because they dream of being rich one day. They also blame everyone in the mid-east for 911 and want to bomb them for revenge. They also think the working poor are evil stupid lazy people who deserve no better. They also think America will be better when we "get over" our obsession with secularism and have a "true christian society"
In short, people vote republican because their philosophy validates their hatreds. They avoid democrats because the democrat philosophy makes them feel uncomfortable or guilty.
2006-10-07 09:07:44 · answer #5 · answered by Skippy 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I hope they don't think they're fooling me!
I feel that Mark Foley's e-mail buggerings and Haster's avoidance tactics are far more dangerous to our society than any state's welfare rolls.
2006-10-07 09:53:21 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
They are not fooling anyone, but those aren't the only choices. Republicans don't just give tax breaks & wars. . .and Democrats just don't dole out welfare. It is much broader than that.
2006-10-07 09:03:45 · answer #7 · answered by kobacker59 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
one thing bush has proven with this damned war is that we could easily have afforded universal health care, paid maternity leave for 3 years like civilized countries, social security credits for caregivers and much more. another thing he's proven is exactly what his rich brethren think of we the people spending the wealth we generate on ourselves.
2006-10-07 09:20:27 · answer #8 · answered by cassandra 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Enough to stay in power for the last six years
2006-10-07 09:10:13 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Giving those tax breaks to the wealthy has resulted in record highs for job creation, the Dow, and wage increases. It has also resulted in record low unemployment, steady consumer confidence and the highest tax revenues in the history of the US (and that is adjusting for inflation).
It's called supply side economics... it works.
2006-10-07 09:06:50 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 4⤋