"George-the Lesser", Pretender to the throne; has now decided to "reform" Social Security.... Republican "neo-Cons" are trying to allow gullible Americans to "invest" part of their Social Security funds in corporate/"wall-street" investment-funds. Have we all forgotten the massive losses of the past 5 years under Bush??? Have we all forgotten the "creative-accounting" of Arthur Anderson, the fradulent stock manipulations of Enron, WorldCom, and dozens of Wall-Street investment firms??? BUSH WANTS TO GIVE OUR SOCIAL-SECURITY MONEY TO THE CORPORATE "WOLVES" THAT BOUGHT HIS PRESIDENCY!!!! We might as well take our retirement monies to the nearest casino, or maybe buy "Powerball" tickets!!! Besides the risks inherent in this scheme, the "administration" costs of these proposed programs would be an estimated TEN TO TWENTY TIMES the costs of running Social Security!! I seem to remember Bush campaigning with claims of "smaller government", and less bureaucracy!!!!! How does this plan "streamline" government?? Today, I learned that a new change in the I.R.S. laws affects those of us who donate a vehicle to a charity. In the past, taxpayers were allowed to deduct "fair-market-value" of such a donated vehicle. The NEW law allows only a deduction of whatever price the "Charity'' obtains for the donated vehicle. Since many of these vehicles are "parted-out", it is VIRTUALLY IMPOSSIBLE for a taxpayer to determine the ammount that the charity received. Also, many of these vehicles are sold LONG after they are donated, if at all. This also requires taxpayers to pursue lengthy investigations and inquiries of any possible deductions; and most taxpayers will be TOTALLY UNABLE to obtain such info. Does anyone REALLY think that some part-time, "handicapped" employee of GOODWILL will be able to provide accurate, legal information for the I.R.S.????? This is just another "scam" to take MORE of your money!!!.... At the expense of non-profit charities...... George made a public-statement yesterday; claiming Iraq elections will proceed. He referred to America's "mission" to "bring peace & democracy to Iraq"...... odd; when he started this war, he claimed that the "mission" was "to find W.M.D.s", "Disable or destroy Iraq's "nuke-yuh-lur" program", and to "kill or capture Ossama Bin Ladin"......ALL OF WHICH WERE LIES!!!!!! Now it seems that "our mission" is to "bring peace & democracy to Iraq"...... WHICH IS A DEADLY, COSTLY FAILURE!! Iraqis, for the most part, DO NOT WANT DEMOCRACY!! They don't even know what it is! If corporate "rape" of our economy, widespread corruption and greed, Radical-religous fundamentalism, massive human-rights supression, and economic chaos are the "definition of democracy"; perhaps we woull all be better-off without it!!!! Whatever happened to "OF THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE, AND FOR THE PEOPLE"???? Remember what were the targets of the Al Queda 9-11 attacks??? NOT people's food-supplies, NOT water-reservoirs, NOT Disneyland, etc.... but the centers of corporate-greed and planetary destruction.... The center of MONEY (Wall Street) , and the center of the "Military-Industrial-Complex".... The Pentagon. How can George Bush justify the deaths of 1,300 American troops, the the injury of 10,000 more, the deaths of an estimated 100,000 Iraqis, and the injury of thousands more???? While the World-Trade-Center attacks were cruel and barbaric; the 2300 deaths there are LESS than the number of Americans killed anually on our highways. The "Neo-Con" whackos have a well-known agenda to control the oil production of Iraq; in order to "grease-the wheels" of the corporate robber-barrons. The "Project for A New American Century" (members include Jeb Bush, George Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, and Donald Ashcroft), has published outrageous "colonialistic" plots of world domination dating back as far as 1998. They have openly advocated the use of American military force as a "first-choice" of ALL foreign-policy; the rest of the world "be-damned". Not since the paranoid witch-hunts of "McCarthyism", has America been so threatened. The Republican "Neo-Cons" have corrupted our electoral-processes, lied, abused and distorted democracy is such ways that our "Founding Fathers" would be outraged!! TIME magazine released it's "Man-Of-The-Year" cover; with "Dubyuh" as it's choice.. Citing his "Ten-Gallon-Hat Foreign Policy".... Too bad he has a "Two-Gallon" mentality, and a "Half-Pint" morality!!! There's a saying in Texas: "Big hat, no cattle". I saw a bumper-sticker with a picture of "Dub"... it was captioned with: "Like a rock!!! and just about as smart!" JUST HOW CORRUPT AND INCOMPETENT DOES ANY PRESIDENT HAVE TO BE, BEFORE WE DON'T ELECT HIM???? The truth will set us free! Dave
- posted by Dave @ 9:29 PM