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pan6467 · 04-07-2004, 07:51 AM

Actually to be honest Bush's ad hurts Bush in my eyes.

Every other country out there pays more in gas than the US. Most tax gas far higher than we do because they have better environmental policies. My worry is that we are supposedly the greatest nation on Earth and we are showing people having a hard time affording gas because of a tax? Tells me more about the wages paid in this country and the economic situation as a whole.

What should be called into question, more than any gas tax is, why can corporations ship jobs overseas and still be allowed tax breaks? Why are we showing that paying less than everybody else for gas is such an economic burden on us? If Bush wants to play the economy card then he should answer why he refuses to raise minimum wage from $5.25 an hour to a liveable wage, he should answer why in these days of "patriotism" he allows jobs to be shipped overseas while he gives massive tax breaks to those very corporations, and he should answer why he chooses to spend more and more on military but cuts veterans benefits drastically.

To those that say Bush has to go by what Congress votes and therefore it is not all his fault, are blind and ignorant to the fact that Congress is controlled by the right and he has pretty much a blank check right now to do whatever he pleases. Which make no mistake, he does get whatever he wants, but for his own gain not for the gain of the country and the citizens and certainly not for future generations.

04-07-2004, 07:51 AM	#19 (permalink)
pan6467 Lennonite Priest Location: Mansfield, Ohio USA	Actually to be honest Bush's ad hurts Bush in my eyes. Every other country out there pays more in gas than the US. Most tax gas far higher than we do because they have better environmental policies. My worry is that we are supposedly the greatest nation on Earth and we are showing people having a hard time affording gas because of a tax? Tells me more about the wages paid in this country and the economic situation as a whole. What should be called into question, more than any gas tax is, why can corporations ship jobs overseas and still be allowed tax breaks? Why are we showing that paying less than everybody else for gas is such an economic burden on us? If Bush wants to play the economy card then he should answer why he refuses to raise minimum wage from $5.25 an hour to a liveable wage, he should answer why in these days of "patriotism" he allows jobs to be shipped overseas while he gives massive tax breaks to those very corporations, and he should answer why he chooses to spend more and more on military but cuts veterans benefits drastically. To those that say Bush has to go by what Congress votes and therefore it is not all his fault, are blind and ignorant to the fact that Congress is controlled by the right and he has pretty much a blank check right now to do whatever he pleases. Which make no mistake, he does get whatever he wants, but for his own gain not for the gain of the country and the citizens and certainly not for future generations. __________________ I just love people who use the excuse "I use/do this because I LOVE the feeling/joy/happiness it brings me" and expect you to be ok with that as you watch them destroy their life blindly following. My response is, "I like to put forks in an eletrical socket, just LOVE that feeling, can't ever get enough of it, so will you let me put this copper fork in that electric socket?"