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I know the title of this is a bit, well, aggressive. Sorry about that. “Hate” is a pretty strong word, and I don’t really like to use it, especially directed towards a fellow human being, but I just can’t take anymore.
I need to get this off my chest, so here’s my list, in no particular order. I shall strive to abstain from ad hominem attacks. I could go on for pages and pages on each of my points, but I will try to be brief in deference of readability.
1. If we must pattern the government after a card game, why does it have to be Three Card Monte?
Is anyone else getting weary of the administration’s habit of bait and switch public relations? First it’s WMD. Then it’s the potential acquisition of WMDs. Then it’s “bringing freedom to the Iraqi people.” What’s it going to be next?
The administration must be consistent. An inconsistent government is one that is difficult to trust, and I, for one, have lost confidence in what my government tells me. When I find out that the President includes statements in his State of the Union address that his staff knew for a fact was inaccurate, this does not fill me with joy. When the reason that more than 1500 American soldiers have been killed is nebulous and shifting, this does not inspire me to cheer. When the President looks me in the eye from my TV set and crows, “You’re doing a heckuva job, Brownie!” while behind him a major American city has transformed into Beirut circa 1980, this makes me shudder.
I have a problem when the same man who stated that “nation building” was wrong while campaigning for President later engages in a war to build a nation in our own image.
I can not support an administration I do not trust. I can not trust an administration that keeps shifting the cards on me.
2. What’s with the Jethro act?
I know this seems trivial, but it really bugs me! Look, I know it’s an act. You know it’s an act. The whole world knows it’s an act, you simply do not get to be the President of the United States if you are a fool. So why act like one? The folksy, “aw, shucks” demeanor is simply not appropriate in the leader of the free world, and I expect a US President to be able to speak coherently even if he is off script. Come on, he went to Harvard! Yeah, I know he graduated with a “C” average, but still. Harvard! It’s not like he went to Cactus Community College and Feed Store! Didn’t at least one of his professors say, “Look, I know you’re from Texas and all that, but people will take you more seriously if you don’t sound like an inbred hillbilly.” (No offense to hillbillies or to the citizens of the great state of Texas. I’m having visions of those TV commercials with the cavemen…)
Please, Mr. President. The world judges us on the image you present. Can we turn up the brightness knob a bit?
3. Daddy, are we gonna lose th’ farm?
The President has made tax relief a priority in his administration, and I have no problem with that. But it’s not really as it seems…
He trumpeted the repeal of the estate tax, more commonly referred to as the “Death Tax” (Ooooohhhh…scary) by Republicans, which will end up costing the nation $982 billion dollars in lost revenues over the next twenty years.
After the repeal of the estate tax, VP Dick Cheney’s family will keep somewhere between 8 and 40 million dollars they would otherwise have owed. Donald Rumsfeld could be as high as 120 million. The other members of the President’s cabinet will save between 10 and 111 million. Ken Lay, Mr. Enron himself, how much did his family save when he died? 60 million. Jeff Skilling? 50 million. Gary Winnick of Global Crossing? More than 300 million. Martha Stewart? Also more than 300 million. Bernie Ebbers of WorldCom? More than 200 million. John Riggs of Adelphia, a man who used a publicly traded company as his own personal piggy bank? 50 million dollars.
All of these people are either members of the President’s administration, or high-dollar contributors to his campaigns.
This is the most self-serving, greedy tax bill in history, and it was justified as being needed because “poor farmers were being forced to sell their farms to pay the tax.” Despite the fact that in the history of the United States of America, no farmer has ever had to sell their farm to pay this tax. Ever.
4. Dude, where’s my tax relief?
In 2001, 41% of all of the administration’s tax relief went to the wealthiest 20% of Americans.
By 2003, the percentage of tax breaks that went to the top 20% was 71. That’s right, seventy-one percent of the tax cuts went to the richest twenty percent.
If things continue as currently established, by 2010, 51% of all tax breaks will have gone to the top 1% (That’s not a typo, the top one percent) of Americans.
Where’s my tax relief, Mr. President? Is it in the repeal of the dividend tax? But most middle class Americans don’t own sufficient stock portfolios to collect dividends, while the wealthiest clean up. The average investor in Microsoft has about 1000 shares. Which means, thanks to the repeal of the dividend tax, when Microsoft issued a 16 cent dividend, the average investor made a nifty $160 tax-free dollars. Enough to take the family out for a good meal and a movie, with popcorn and snacks! Thanks, Mr. President! On the other hand, Bill Gates pocketed a slightly nicer 99 million dollar tax-free check from the exact same dividend pay-out. Enough to buy a good restaurant and make a big budget Hollywood movie, with popcorn and snacks. Houston, we have a problem.
And it gets worse. With the various legal tax shelters and dodges available under the new tax policies, huge corporations can frequently get away with paying no taxes at all. In 4 of the 5 years right before Enron (led by Bush insider Ken “Kenny Boy” Lay who had already used his influence with the administration to replace the then head of FERC Curtis Herbert with their own choice, Pat Wood, when Herbert refused to pass regulations allowing Enron to run rampant over their customers) paid no taxes at all. Haliburton, VP Cheney’s old company, has not paid a dime in Federal taxes since 1999, and in 1999 actually managed to get an 85 million dollar refund. I know very well that Bush can not be blamed for anything that happened in 1999, but his policies and decisions since taking office have not helped the situation one iota. In fact, the nation is hemorrhaging tax revenue faster than ever now.
If Haliburton doesn’t have to pay taxes, why do I?
5. Screw you guys, I’m going to Iraq!
The United States of America is the leader of the free world, and since the downfall of the Soviet Union, basically the most powerful political, social, and economic force on the planet. We have a responsibility to work with the other nations of this world, not bully them like the only big kid on the playground. Neither are we the teacher on the playground, with the rights to tell everyone else what to do and the right to be obeyed. We do not have the right to dictate to other nations how they should govern themselves. Democracy must contain within it the right to choose to not be a Democracy.
Following the tragedy of September 11th, the United States enjoyed the good-wishes, sympathy, and support of nearly the entire global community. Did we work with the international community to promote peace and the free exchange of ideas, two things we claim to value highly? Did we parley the situation into a positive influence? No, we squandered it on jingoistic rhetoric and self-serving agendas that found us mired in a war without just cause and turned our nation into the most mocked and reviled country on the planet.
Rather than pursuing those responsible for the attack, the administration made the decision to take advantage of the situation to promote a war against a nation that even the President now admits never had anything to do with it. Was Saddam a bad guy? Absolutely. But does the United States really have the right to decide for other nations how they structure their government? There is simply no reliable intelligence to indicate that Iraq was a credible threat to US security. A war under false pretenses does not make me confident in my government.
Unilateralism is not appropriate for a global community, and we are a global community, no matter how much we pretend we aren’t. The congress-defying recess appointment of a vocal anti-United Nations critic to be the American ambassador to the United Nations is just one symptom of an administration that simply does not care about international co-operation.
6. You can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear, but the opposite is pretty easy.
At the beginning of the current administration’s first term, the United States was enjoying the largest budget surplus in history. A projected more than 5 trillion dollars. This money could have been used to restore social security, provide health care for all Americans (40 million of whom are still without health insurance), support our struggling schools, refurbish our aging infrastructure, pay down the national debt, or any of hundreds of other valuable and desperately needed programs.
Instead it was squandered on massive tax cuts targeted at the wealthy, so that now instead of the largest budget surplus in US history, we now have the largest budget deficit ever. The President has never failed to sign any spending bill sent to him, and in fact, government spending has increased more and faster under the current administration than under any other President, and the debt is still growing. Today the Federal government is borrowing nearly 20 million dollars a day to meet expenses, a huge portion of it in the form of US Treasury Bills being bought by China and South Korea. And almost a third of every dollar in taxes goes just to paying the interest on the massive Federal debt.
So much for the tax and spend Democrats. At least they taxed before they started spending.
7. Take this job and shove it.
We need to create 100 to 150 thousand new jobs every month in the United States just to keep up with growth. Under the current administration we are actually losing jobs. This is the first administration since before WWII to see a net job loss, and you have to go back to the Great Depression to find a worse job record.
Where are the jobs going? Due to health care costs, it’s actually cheaper for a company to have one person do the work of two than it is to actually hire two people. New laws favorable to outsourcing have encouraged companies to move jobs overseas to areas where labor is far cheaper. Revisions in the tax code have made it easier for companies to make higher profits with fewer employees, and there are a lot more factors as well.
The harsh reality is that there are now college graduates working at McDonalds, using that degree to make sure your Big Mac has the right amount of Special Sauce.
In the immortal words of Popeye, “That’s all I can stands, I can’t stands no more!”
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Don't you understand? Clinton had sex in the Oval Office!
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At no point do I ever refer to President Clinton in my post. My thoughts have nothing to do with Clinton and I was never comparing or intending that the two should be compared. There were things I wasn't thrilled about about him, either, but he is no longer in office and not my problem anymore.
(And yes, I know you're joking. But how sad is it that many people will agree with that statement at face value?)
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quote:Originally posted by Dog Friendly: But Clinton had sex in the Oval Office!
Don't you understand? Clinton had sex in the Oval Office!
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So did Harding--a Republican.
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Thomas Jefferson (fathered children with Sally Hemings, his slave).
Grover Cleveland (fathered an illegitimate child with Maria Halpin).
Woodrow Wilson (married another woman within a year of his first wife's death).
Franklin Roosevelt (had an affair with Lucy Mercer while he was married to Eleanor).
Dwight Eisenhower (had an affair with Kay Summersby).
John F. Kennedy (had affairs with Judith Exner and Marilyn Monroe).
Many of the above are considered among the best presidents ever. I predict that GWB will be remembered as among the worst (if not the worst ever).
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That's it. Your reasons have convinced me. There's no way I'm voting GWB for a 3rd term!
LikeHey"Whaddya mean, term limits?"Scoob
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Am I to understand you people did not detect the ovewhelming aroma of sarcasm emanating from Dog Friendly's post?
Nonny
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quote:Originally posted by Sandman: In the immortal words of Popeye, “That’s all I can stands, I can’t stands no more!”
In that case, Sandman, I'd say you should definitely NOT vote for President Bush again. ETA: spanked (sort of) by LikeHeyScoob
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Well said Sandman. I truly feel your frustration.
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Guess I should have used the roll-eyes smiley, though I really don't like them. Thanks, Nonny. You reassure me. Nothing wrong with your nose, anyway.
Or it may be that there's just not much to respond to in Sandman's original post. I agree, but just don't have much to say about it. Or, more accurately, I'm at work and haven't got time to spend a couple of hours agreeing with it all.
Others may feel the same way, so instead we have a parade of non sequiturs.
Sandman, if you feel I owe you an apology, it is yours.
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Right there with ya, Sandman. Every time I turn on the news, and see something the administration has done, I think to myself, "Good lord, he can't POSSIBLY sink any lower than this!" And then the next week I'm proven wrong. Repeatedly. I've stopped looking for the bottom with this administration; there is none. Whenever I think they've hit it, they dig deeper.
Let me add Shrub's social policy to your list, since social issues are my pet peeve.
Bush is the PCM-in-Chief. The quality of life for the living isn't nearly as important to this asshole as a bunch of undeveloped embryos, so naturally, we'll veto embryonic stem cell research. It's "for the children!"
What about the "faith-based initiative?" My tax dollars are supporting churches?? Isn't there some amendment or another...I recall it's pretty high up on the list...says you can't do that?
And then there's the "School Choice" fiasco. That sounds great! People like "choice," don't they? Having choice is the essence of democracy!
Too bad "school choice" basically means helping some kids and letting the rest slide down the plughole. And where do those lucky little kids go? To JESUS SCHOOL! YAY! This isn't solving the problem of poor public education, it's exacerbating it, while adding on the new problem of unconstitutionally indoctrinating children with religion. I love freedom and democracy!
And speaking of poor public education, weren't we supposed to "leave no child behind?" Yeah, what happened to that? Maybe we should have called it "No Rich Child Left Behind," but somehow that doesn't have the same ring.
Bush has failed, failed, and failed again. We didn't elect you in 2000, and you smeared your way back to the White House in 2004. You're a colossal asshole, and I hope over the next two years, you go down in flames and take your whole party with you.
quote:Originally posted by Amigone201: And speaking of poor public education, weren't we supposed to "leave no child behind?" Yeah, what happened to that? Maybe we should have called it "No Rich Child Left Behind," but somehow that doesn't have the same ring.
Actually, "No Child Left Behind" is working. There are two ways to not leave anyone behind. You can help those falling back to get ahead, or you can hold everyone back to the slowest people. Bush simply chose the latter method.
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Oh, you don't owe me an apology, Dog Friendly I recognized the sarcasm, no worries.
And the point of my essay was not that he should not be re-elected. At no point do I ever express an opinion about any election, legitimate or not. My point was to express my frustration over what I see as the systematic raping of the spirit of the country I love. Sarcastically instructing me to not vote for him for a third term is insulting to both my intelligence and yours, and shows a lack of understanding of my purpose.
I would be happy to see the President called to account for some of this. If not for the bad government, how about the criminal acts?
The President's illegal activities and his ham-fisted efforts to retroactively re-write the law to de-criminalize what he knew was unconstitutional in the first place makes me physically ill.
We are The United States of America. We deserve better than this.
Sand "Coming Soon To A Big Table In Front Of The House Un-American Activities Committee" man
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quote:Actually, "No Child Left Behind" is working. There are two ways to not leave anyone behind. You can help those falling back to get ahead, or you can hold everyone back to the slowest people. Bush simply chose the latter method.
It is really a shame that the NCLB Act wasn't in place when GWB went to school. Since it requires that students pass proficiency tests before advancing, George would have never graduated from high school and the world would have been spared his presidency.
Also, it is debatable whether the increase in test scores is due to NCLB. Scores were increasing BEFORE it was passed.
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Such hatred. Such venom. The way y'all talk it sounds like the country is swirling around the bowl for the last time. It's not.
Have you considered ratcheting the hate-speak down a notch or two? This kind of ranting isn't raising the level of discourse at all.
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quote:Originally posted by Uncle Rico: Such hatred. Such venom. The way y'all talk it sounds like the country is swirling around the bowl for the last time. It's not.
That it is in the bowl at all is a problem for some of us.
quote:Have you considered ratcheting the hate-speak down a notch or two? This kind of ranting isn't raising the level of discourse at all.
If you actually read Sandman's post, there are some very interesting, cogent arguments that are made.
Care to refute any of them, or are you just here to scold?
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Nothing I said was hateful. I used no perjoratives. I didn't even focus on a single person. I didn't say I hate Bush, I said I hated the administration, and I qualified that in my first statement.
I expressed my frustrations with what I feel is an administration that is taking America far from what it should and could be. That is not "hate-speech."
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Sandman, my thoughts as an outsider do not even come close to those from someone who is living the challenges you are. But I have always thought that having a significant amount of political decisions made by an unelected group of people has some major drawbacks.
For one, I believe that they are more susceptible to Groupthink than would an elected group.
On the other hand, I, for one, like George W Bush. But, I think that his biggest failing is in his choice of advisors. Whether he admits it or not, on the advice of his staff, he has gotten himself into a pickle with Iraq and he needs to stay his course. Or else he is leaving a bigger mess than what was there when he invaded. The advice of his principles helped fuel the war, tax cuts, persona, fiscal policy and foreign policy.
If the advisors were better selected, perhaps you would not be ranting.
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Sandman, what would really make me feel better is if we didn't have these issues to feel so bad about, but since we do, it does make me feel just a smidge better to see that I'm not the ONLY person in Amurka to recognize (and bemoan) what is going on. -Living where I do, sometimes it feels like that.
I only hope that the revolt against this is big enough that Diebold can't get away with their little nasty bag of tricks again...though I'm, frankly, worried.
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If you want a rant... okay, all of this stuff is old, and it's been discussed to death, and then forcibly reincarnated JUST so it could be discussed to death AGAIN.
Your points 4, 6, and 7 just prove to me that you get the entirety of your current events news from some nutball, and you don;t actually pay attention to what's been going on in the world. The explanations of everything you've said in those sections have been discussed here over and over again, and are now denied only by the most hopeless moveOn.orgiasts imaginable.
To make it so simple even a lemur could understand it:
1. The "surplus" only existed on paper. It assumed that the tech bubble (which began its deflation even before Bush was elected) would keep expanding forever - a stupid assumption. It assumed no 9-11. It assumed many things which were in no way guaranteed. And it was dead wrong.
2. If you paid taxes, you got a tax cut. I did, and I only made $30K. Of COURSE the rich got bigger cuts, They pay most of the taxes!
3. I don't know where you got that job loss story. Yes, unemployment took a downturn after the bubble burst (Pre-Bush, again) However, we now have a 4.7 unemployment rate. Despite high gas prices, the Fed has had to keep raising rates to keep economic growth cool and inflation from taking off. Wages are up 3.9% year-over-year. 1,708,000 jobs were created in the last 12 months (ending August), despite Katrina.
Now, I've had enough of sadistic equestrian necrophilia. Let's move on.
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quote:Originally posted by Sandman: I didn't even focus on a single person. I didn't say I hate Bush, I said I hated the administration, and I qualified that in my first statement.
Fib, because you also said
quote:I don’t really like to use it, especially directed towards a fellow human being
"a fellow human being" is clearly a refernce to a single, specific human being.
Please try again. ^_^
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quote:Originally posted by First of Two: Now, I've had enough of sadistic equestrian necrophilia. Let's move on.
I'm keeping that around for future use. Preferably on a board where the average poster has trouble spelling "horse," let alone "equestrian"
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quote:Originally posted by AnglRdr: If you actually read Sandman's post, there are some very interesting, cogent arguments that are made.
Care to refute any of them, or are you just here to scold?
I read the post. If by "interesting" you mean "already repeated about a million times on this board" I'll agree. If by "cogent" you mean "they agree with my views" that may work for you, but not for me.
Refutation is pointless (not to mention that FoT already took care of that for the most part), so I'll just stick with scolding. By the way, I was not so much scolding Sandman (who was at least somewhat reasonable - if totally off base - in the OP) or all the other posters. I was mostly referring to Amigone and, to a slightly lesser extent, RBCal. I should have been more specific. No offense intended for the rest of you.
And, Chloe, ranting is one thing - and I enjoy a good rant as much as the next guy - however, when you call the President of the United States a "colossal asshole" that might be going just a tad over the top, even for a rant - and that's what I'm talking about when I say it doesn't raise the level of discourse. But that's just me - maybe in other folks' view that's OK.
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Oh, pardon me, Rico. I did not realize you had taken over the role of board scolder.
Congratulations on the promotion.
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quote:Originally posted by Uncle Rico: By the way, I was not so much scolding Sandman (who was at least somewhat reasonable - if totally off base - in the OP) or all the other posters. I was mostly referring to Amigone and, to a slightly lesser extent, RBCal. I should have been more specific. No offense intended for the rest of you.
Yowtch. I got pwnzed.
Sure, I was a good deal less tactful than Sandman, but some things absolutely burn my bacon. And the current administration's domestic policy is one of them. Sorry, but a civil, low-key, academic-paper type response does NOT carry across how I feel about this administration. I don't "disagree" with them, I hate them.
quote:And, Chloe, ranting is one thing - and I enjoy a good rant as much as the next guy - however, when you call the President of the United States a "colossal asshole" that might be going just a tad over the top, even for a rant
Well, if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck...
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So the President is exempt from being called what he might very well be, because of his office?
I see people call offending persons "NFBSKing NFBSKheads" on this board- I believe that's why it's called "rantidote", because people, well, rant. Simply because GWB is, to our misfortune, the current POTUS he should be above more plebian descriptors?
If I recall correctly, said President was called out for referring to a reporter as an "asshole", and caught on mic. I believe he should be the one held to the high standard, eh?
I believe GWB is not only a colossal asshole, but has gone beyond the current definitions of asshole into a previously unknown genre of rectal orifice. Damn I love this country and being able to say that.
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2. If you paid taxes, you got a tax cut. I did, and I only made $30K.
Um, that's not true. Bush's latest tax "cut" effectively raised the taxes of expats. Imagine my surprise. You can argue about how fair it is to be taxed at all (or how fair it is that there be an exclusion), but in either case, it increases my taxes.
quote:Originally posted by First of Two: 2. If you paid taxes, you got a tax cut. I did, and I only made $30K. Of COURSE the rich got bigger cuts, They pay most of the taxes!
I have to admire your attitude. If I were a fully qualified librarian with years of working experience and I was only making $30,000 a year I'd be seriously pissed and wondering why I couldn't find a professional level job that paid more than (roughly) $15 bucks an hour. I might even be tempted to, at least partly, blame the government for not helping to create more jobs where I could actually earn a decent living more commesurate with my education and work experience.
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