A) from high paying secure jobs to temp low wage jobs. Actual income is being seriously eroded. Do not hide behind incomplete stats.vdubyah73 wrote:DJ I'm not coming around.
A) Unemployment is way down,
B) gov't tax revenue is way up despite tax cuts.
C) Inflation is nearly nonexistent.
D) the deficit was cut in half in the past year, despite the war on terror.
E) Libya gave up on WMD's and invited the UN in.
F) There is a gov't in Iraq elected by the people of Iraq.
G) If we cut and run, peace at any cost, chaos will rule
H) one more thing most of the deaths in Iraq are the Sunnis and Shi'ites killing each other.
B) revenue is up and spending is skyrocketing,
tax cuts in a time of war is immoral and obscene.
C) with the brunt of the control strategies landing on the middle lower classes, once again immoral.
D) the structural storm clouds, Bill, are ever more ominous. We have done no long-term shoring up on this watch. I am serious. This is analogous to the heady moment just before the stock market crash. We are in hock to other countries like never before in history AND our global talents and abilities are being swallowed up by the likes of China. Notice their new agreement with Africa? They are able to affect global strategies in ways WE SHOULD HAVE BEEN pursuing. Those assholes in Washington shot the bottom out of our lifeboat and are partying with the bail bucket.
E) meanwhile we are losing our own southern hemisphere to Chavez and his powerful and popular beliefs.
F) look at the divisions occurring right now with the indictment of Hussein. You are joining the Bush Delusion if you think that government has an ounce of effective legitimacy.
G) it is already here. . . and we are on the wrong side of it.
H) this is not about the relative "numbers of people" killed. I swear to God it does not matter who is being killed in greater numbers. That we are a part of this killing is immoral.
Colin
(come on Bill, come around to the side that values the lives of other PEOPLE regardless of which "side" they are on)
