Originally posted by MrCoffee
Bush overspends and cuts back on internal domestic issues and then gives a passive tax break to the wealthiest. How do you spend and give tax breaks, theres no logic to it. Is that suppose to have cured the ressession and create jobs. Look at the job figures, it hasnt.
I cant help but to notice these and other statements and claims such as Kerry is weak on defense. Factcheck.orq clearly shows his voting record and the years he voted against military spending post cold war. They even drew similar comparisons to Bush sr who cut military spending by 30% so is Bush sr weak on defense.
About the only fair and resonable news channel left is CNN.
The overspending was probably due to the military and intelligence services being downsized (Something Kerry repeatedly voted FOR) over the last 12 or so years A situation which helped get us into this 911 situation to begin with.
Note I did say 12 or so years so as to include Bush Sr who's downsizing policies I was also against and was the main reason I voted against him in his re election bid. We are paying dearly for that downsizing now.
I find it hard to imagine any president having done anything much differently.
Even Hillary (not exactly Bush's biggest fan) has said she would have done the same in Iraq had she the same info the Prez did. So Iraq is an issue more of rhetoric more then substance.
As for Tax cuts. EVERYONE got a tax cut.
I know I did and I'm FAR from being anywhere near that top percentage. I have no problem with the wealthiest getting more back after all they DID pay more in.
So it would only stand to reason that the ones that paid the most in would get the most back.
I call that being Fair.
The Job loss reported by Kerry is grossly inaccurate. According to an independent thinktank by CNBC (another one that doesn't exactly wave pompoms about Bush) The number is actually 800,000 and if you factor in the over 1 million jobs lost because of 911 and because of downsizing due to more people being replaced by automated machines that number is really more like 200,000 and that's being generous to the Kerry claim. and non of which Bush had any control over whatsoever.
Then again No other Prez had to deal with a recession (which he didn't create BTW) And then a 911 on top of it. So all in all it isn't the doom and gloom that the Kerry camp keeps trying to paint
All the major economists agree that in a time of recession you cut taxes and increase spending to help spur the economy.
Even the Democrats were on board with that. Where they differed was in how they were applied.
If you look back you will remember that at the time the Tax cuts were proposed the Democrats supported a tax cut. Just not the one Bush wanted
In the end Had a Democrat been there we would have ended up in the exact same place. we just would have gotten here by a different path under a different president
We still have the fastest growing economy in of any of the major industrialized nations and unemployment is about the same now as when Clinton was running for Re election and our GDP is the best its been in 20 years which aint to bad for this so called terrible economy. In alot of ways its actually better then during the Clinton years. Oh its not a runaway economy for sure. But its real based, on real value not the bubble full of illusionary wealth of the 90's (which Clinton wasn't responsible for)
When I look back at the 90s and that bubble full of illusions I'm far more comfortable with the way things are going today.
There are lots of things I dont like about Bush.
thre are also lots of things I dissagree with him on.
These just aint it
