If you voted for Bush the second time you knew he was in bed with oil and defense contractors .?

Question

Thats the point Most americans are making . Liberal or not ,we all know whats been going on the last 7 years .
A systematic debt piled on the working class while the rich make a tidy profit from it all .
We got what we deserved if we did not do more to keep Bush out of the white house in the first place .

Americans are as stupid as I suspected . Those who voted Bush just more so .

The question is how can anyone possibly still support Bush . The 30% die hard Bush fanatics please explain why .
Its criminal to pile a debt on society as large as this one that profits the rich and penalizes the poor working class .
Only the working class can pay a tax . Cause corporations just raise the price on products and services to meet there tax burden and it falls back onto the working people .

Answer 1

Dems have been in bed with my wallet and hard earned money for about 65 years.

Besides I can NEVER teach my kids to respect a party (Dems) that is so HATEFUL. That HATE is bad for our kids.

Answer 2

I would like to know that as well since anyone making between $44,000 and $200,000 are going to get slammed, and you are the ones that pay almost all the taxes anyway!

Of the 32 million than filed tax returns a little over 600,000 are in the richest 0.5%!

Only 9.7 million made between $100,000 and 200,000.

Twenty-two MILLION taxpayers earn less than $100,000!

One-half of America makes less than $30,000 a year!

Why do you vote to give your money to the richest 0.5%? Their average income is 26.5 million a year. Do you feel sorry for them if they paid taxes or are you like Leona Helmsley who said, "Only the little people pay taxes!"

Let me guess, corporate welfare! Many Republicans have welfare jobs with corporations that get government contracts. They get good pay and a great health insurance plan, then they Blame all the rest for being lazy bums when in fact they are children, the elderly, and the disabled and they can't work! One-half of America doesn't earn enough to maintain any quality of life, and most have no health medical insurance!

Easy to blame, but most of you are welfare recipients yourself!

I have proof:

Here are your top contibitors:
1
Enron Corp $2,478,923

2
Exxon Mobil $1,378,400

3
BP $1,291,190

4
Chevron Corp $1,086,027

5
Koch Industries $1,064,406

6
El Paso Energy $913,245

7
USX Corp $835,356

8
Anadarko Petroleum $720,704

9
Coastal Corp $666,725

10
American Gas Assn $630,025

11
Reliant Energy $588,156

12
Occidental Petroleum $585,876

13
Sunoco Inc $546,711

14
Catamount Petroleum $487,640

15
Texaco $470,569

16
Davis Companies $452,000

17
Phillips Petroleum $448,949

18
Ashland Inc $435,715

19
Halliburton Co $424,933

20
Dynegy Inc $386,800

And here is who got it:

1
Bush, George W (R)
Pres
$1,928,701

2
Lazio, Rick A (R-NY)
Senate
$276,675

3
Abraham, Spencer (R-MI)
Senate
$256,471

4
Hutchison, Kay Bailey (R-TX)
Senate
$243,656

5
Allen, George (R-VA)
Senate
$152,197

6
Ashcroft, John (R-MO)
Senate
$142,149

7
Gore, Al (D)
Pres
$142,014

8
Bingaman, Jeff (D-NM)
Senate
$136,651

9
Burns, Conrad (R-MT)
Senate
$136,600

10
Young, Don (R-AK)
House
$132,350

11
Wareing, Peter Staub (R-TX)
House
$131,747

12
Gorton, Slade (R-WA)
Senate
$129,621

13
Ensign, John (R-NV)
Senate
$127,413

14
Franks, Bob (R-NJ)
Senate
$105,150

14
Santorum, Rick (R-PA)
Senate
$105,150

16
Barton, Joe (R-TX)
House
$104,600

17
Giuliani, Rudolph W (R-NY)
Senate
$102,300

18
Thomas, Craig (R-WY)
Senate
$96,977

19
McCain, John (R-AZ)
Senate
$96,180

20
Watkins, Wes (R-OK)
House
$94,000

MY God! Only 2 Democrats!

Answer 3

well, a lot of those 30 Percenters are the Fundy Christian Evangelists who fervently prayed that GW Bush, their Cowboy of God, would be divinely install in power. because GW was sanctioned God and it was the Holy Spirit Himself guiding their choice in the voting booth there is no possible way for the neoCONNED Fundy Christians to admit they've been duped, misled, taken for a long ride to the cleaners. to admit that even privately to themselves would signal a lack of faith not just in their Cowboy of God but ... in God Himself. their political savior is being persecuted by the Godless liberals, just like Jesus poor GW is being unjustly crucified by the Democratic evil doers. George W Bush, the heroic Man of Sorrows. these are the people who believe the sun and moon can be halted in the sky and women can be turned into salt licks. they're putty in the hands of any conman, preacher or Rove telling them what they desire to hear.

Answer 4

The only criminal pile of debt in America are the power hungry, money loving democrats.
and you know what else i always see, someone, somewhere blaming something on bush when they have no proof.
you pinko, commie democrats need to get a life

Answer 5

Their all criminals the bush admin is covering up for the Clinton admins mistakes .. you scratch my back I'll scratch yours ... Point of interest : why did the justice department not investigate the Sandy Burger for stilling Top Secret documents from the federal archives .. they consider the case closed.. These are Republicans protecting Democrats..

Answer 6

if you realize corporations don't pay taxes, then why should i support a party that says the corporations aren't paying enough, when you and I both know it's us that end up paing them?
Personally, as a lower middle clas working man, It doesn't bother me at all that people are richer than me. good for them.

Answer 7

Let's elect a guy and his buddies who make their fortunes off of oil and military contracts!

"We need a war to make more money".........."We need to make more money off of oil but the US citizens won't allow us to drill domestically"........."Hey---let's go after the ME"! ........."Yeah! They're all nuts and we need to control who capitalizes on the natural resources of the ME!"......."Hey my buddies in the ME won't mind if we go after Iraq...they all hate Saddam......and then we can go after Iran.....The Sunnis don't like those Shiite bastards either!" .....OK let's do it ....but first we have to convince the American people that we need to fear the ME first...How can we do that.......!"

You know how the rest of that conversation went!!!

And Americans are letting them get away with it!!

Answer 8

hey i just asked a question like that an hour ago! You from massachusetts?

Answer 9

Sen Feinstein would have been a better CHOICE . http://www.metroactive.com/feinstein/index.html
I really see the ETHICS you Democrats are talking about

http://www.feinstein.senate.gov/07releases/r-rules-bill.htm

Answer 10

Do you have any facts to back up your initial premise that "he was in bed with oil and defense contractors"?

Please provide credible sources.

Answer 11

Exxon, the world's largest and most profitable oil company, is one of the lead corporate perpetrators against the environment and humanity. Their actions include continuing to avoid payment for damage caused by the Valdez oil spill in Alaska in 1989, heavily lobbying Congress to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and paying think tanks to create false science to "prove" that global warming is not happening. As an energy company with healthy profits, they bear a social responsibility to reinvest some of those profits in developing alternative energy sources. Fossil fuels are a finite resource which will result in continued detriment to the environment through air pollution, global warming, and damage to coastal areas and wildlife refuges as the search for precious oil becomes increasingly extensive. Exxon and their fellow oil companies have also assured themselves of hefty profits by limiting controlling and limiting the refining capacity in the US. Regardless of the cost and supply of crude oil, the bottle-neck they have created at the refinery level enables them to restrict the supply of gasoline available to consumers.

In 2005, the United States poured $455 billion into the military industrial complex. To satiate the obscene avarice of the corporations and plutocrats, the federal government bled and indebted US taxpayers to finance almost half of the world's military expenditures. While the US spent its $455 billion, the rest of the world combined only spent $545 billion. China and India, nations with triple the population of the US, spent $35 billion and $19 billion respectively. In the ongoing struggle of guns versus butter, American plutocrats are fond of saying to hold the bread spread and pass the ammunition. Dick Cheney and Halliburton provide another example of the many conflicts of interest existing in the marriage between the federal government and defense contractors. Cheney, former Secretary of Defense under Bush, Sr. later became the CEO of Halliburton Oil. Ironically, during Cheney's tenure as CEO, Halliburton went from number 73 to number 18 on the list of top federal defense contractors. Since he abdicated his office to become Bush Jr's Vice-President, Kellog Brown and Root, a subsidiary of Halliburton (an ethically-challenged company which has been accused of cooking their books and tax avoidance) has become the US military's largest defense contractor in Iraq. Maintaining Halliburton's record of highly questionable conduct, KBR now faces an investigation by the Pentagon, which has flagged over $1 billion dollars of potential overcharges. Dick Cheney still receives deferred compensation from Halliburton of up to $1 million per year, so they probably have little to fear. I smell something really rotten in Denmark.