The Bush White House today announced that the war in Iraq will need AT LEAST another 80 BILLION DOLLARS!!! Factoring -in current expenditures, that will EASILY exceed 100 BILLION.;C.N.N calculates the cost (to-date) of OVER 448 BILLION DOLLARS!!! Just where will Bush GET this money??? From You, From me, From your children, from my children, from your grandchildren, from my grandchildren!!! Did anyone ask you if you wanted to spend your money, and incur MASSIVE future debt; in this quagmire we call Iraq??? Add to that total, the "future-earning-potential" of those loyal troops killed in Iraq.... ANOTHER 2.2 BILLION DOLLARS!!!(at least). ..... "Dubyuh-Dumbshit" also is now planning to Bankrupt the most-sucessful Social-Security system in modern history. A British plan, which "privatized" parts of their Social-Security system, was a massive failure. Such "privatized" plans are based on a naive belief that investments-funds will increase in value INFINITELY!!.. such is simply NOT THE CASE!! These "private" investments also showed management-costs of nearly 30%.... (It is not cheap to manage millions of individual, diverse funds). Compare that to the minisule cost of managing the Social-Security Fund; which is backed by the SAFEST funds in the world: (U.S. Treasury Bonds). Bush seems to want his Wall-Street buddies to have new access to OUR money; with NO regard for the future consquences!! This is simply another edition of "Reaganomics- Phase Three"..... Or "Voodoo-Economics" Bush's idea is largely reminiscent of "Trickle-Down-Economics"; (You remember, the "Trickle-Down" was the sound of all of us getting "Pissed-On"!!!!) Most economic experts have agreed that Bush's "scare-tactics" about Social-Security are simply NOT TRUE!! "Dub" and his "Good-old-Boys" are now trying to confirm Condaleeza Rice as Secretary Of State: The same INCOMPETANT ass-kisser that ignored C.I.A. memos about Al Queda, and justified an ILLEGAL war which has now cost us 200 BILLION DOLLARS, AND MORE THAN 1500 AMERICAN LIVES!!! Is this the "Fiscal-Responsibility" that was so-loudly promoted by Bush during his first campaign???? Is this the "Smaller-government" which he ALSO promoted?? How about reforming our income-tax-code?? We have over 7000 pages of "Tax-Code"; which NO-ONE can understand!!! Not even employees of the I.R.S.!! If you get tax-advice from the I.R.S. which proves to be incorrect, (as it often is), YOU ARE STILL RESPONSIBLE FOR TAXES & PENALTIES!! The current tax-code is a "shell-game" designed to benefit those rich, corporate entites which can use their lawyers and their "loopholes" to best avoid paying ANY TAXES!! If you research many Multi-national corporations, you will find that they often pay NO income taxes on BILLIONS of dollars worth of income. (Such are the benefits of lobbyists, lawyers, loopholes, and tax-shelters). They pay NO taxes, we pay more taxes, and Bush continues to spend us into bankruptcy!! Now Bush wants us to gamble our retirement funds by investing in these same corporations which "outsource" our jobs to China, and pay NO taxes!! Has anyone heard anything about the "Strategic-Defense-Initiative"??? That "bottomless-pit" of Military-Industrial spending which will cost 50 Billion Dollars in the next 5 years, and DOESN'T WORK????.. I gues that Lockheed, Martin-Marietta, Boeing, Halliburton , etc, aren't making enough money in Iraq.... They still need that useless hoax which we used to call "Star-Wars".... allegedly to protect us from missles from China... Odd, but I thought that we were China's #1 customer??? (WalMart now imports 80% of all of it's goods FROM CHINA!!!; WalMart continues to drive American manufacturers and retailers out-of-business) Do you think that China would actually attack it's best customer??? The puppet-king we know as George, is worthy of no-less than imprisonment!!! (perhaps he can share a cell with Karl Rove, and Dick Cheney)................got to: www.votetoimpeach.org Dave
- posted by Dave @ 1:11 PM