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pan6467 · 09-16-2005, 12:31 PM

All I can say is Bush calls for the country to act together, yet he keeps driving partisanship into the heart, and destroys any chance of working together in a "best for the country" scenario.

Instead he propogates a totally one-sided view and expects everyone to get along with only his way. It's wrong, it's divisive and it's far more destructive than constructive.

A great example is if Rove is put in charge of rebuilding N.O. Excuse me but is there anyone more partisan in this country, more divisive, more one-sided?

Another curious thing is that Bush doesn't explain how we are going to pay for this. $200 Billion but where is the money coming from? We are in a war, he is cutting taxes for the rich, while the middle class people pay more and see wages shrink (due to the price of gas and utilities).

So in the end, Bush does exactly what the supposed conservatives and Neo-Cons say they hate about the Dems. He throws sick amounts of money at the problem. The difference is however, as we saw with Clinton, the Dems may tax a bit more, but we were on the road to balanced budgets and a lower deficit.

With Bush, we have a rich minority paying less of their net worth, a huge majority paying theirs, and a defiict that is growing into deadly territory that people and countries who do not like us are buying up faster and faster. Bush's deficit spending will someday come due and we'll be paying for this in ways that we can't imagine today.

What N.O. needs and what we all need as a country is fairness and a bipartisan, independant study of how to effectively clean this tragedy up, in the best but least expensive ways. The jobs will be there, the economy will boom in that area.... so the local and state taxes should increase and thus eventually take more of the burden on the nation as a whole. However, when the president is throwing figures out already and in government "proposed" spending figures are almost always lower and true spending is more costlier.

Another point of interest will be who gets the jobs. Will they all have GOP connections, will it be open bidding, closed bidding, will unionized labor be allowed, quota companies, minimums on minority employee %ages etc.?

I am not trying to turn this into partisanship or even ploitical.... neither belongs in this, however, how can anyone who is political not be partisan when the president himslef, is making this extremely partisan and thumbing his nose at half the country, by his actions?

09-16-2005, 12:31 PM	#6 (permalink)
pan6467 Lennonite Priest Location: Mansfield, Ohio USA	All I can say is Bush calls for the country to act together, yet he keeps driving partisanship into the heart, and destroys any chance of working together in a "best for the country" scenario. Instead he propogates a totally one-sided view and expects everyone to get along with only his way. It's wrong, it's divisive and it's far more destructive than constructive. A great example is if Rove is put in charge of rebuilding N.O. Excuse me but is there anyone more partisan in this country, more divisive, more one-sided? Another curious thing is that Bush doesn't explain how we are going to pay for this. $200 Billion but where is the money coming from? We are in a war, he is cutting taxes for the rich, while the middle class people pay more and see wages shrink (due to the price of gas and utilities). So in the end, Bush does exactly what the supposed conservatives and Neo-Cons say they hate about the Dems. He throws sick amounts of money at the problem. The difference is however, as we saw with Clinton, the Dems may tax a bit more, but we were on the road to balanced budgets and a lower deficit. With Bush, we have a rich minority paying less of their net worth, a huge majority paying theirs, and a defiict that is growing into deadly territory that people and countries who do not like us are buying up faster and faster. Bush's deficit spending will someday come due and we'll be paying for this in ways that we can't imagine today. What N.O. needs and what we all need as a country is fairness and a bipartisan, independant study of how to effectively clean this tragedy up, in the best but least expensive ways. The jobs will be there, the economy will boom in that area.... so the local and state taxes should increase and thus eventually take more of the burden on the nation as a whole. However, when the president is throwing figures out already and in government "proposed" spending figures are almost always lower and true spending is more costlier. Another point of interest will be who gets the jobs. Will they all have GOP connections, will it be open bidding, closed bidding, will unionized labor be allowed, quota companies, minimums on minority employee %ages etc.? I am not trying to turn this into partisanship or even ploitical.... neither belongs in this, however, how can anyone who is political not be partisan when the president himslef, is making this extremely partisan and thumbing his nose at half the country, by his actions? __________________ 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?"