I will NOT vote for BUSH!
I have serious concerns about George Bush, most of which stem from his religious zeal:
· Like a Crusader, Bush invaded Iraq despite worldwide opposition. The results of that hubris are profound. He’s stirred a hornet’s nest of terrorists who are now swarming around us hell bent on our destruction. Meanwhile, he has ignored the more significant threats such as the tons of unaccounted for nuclear material making their way around the world’s black market. In addition, there’s the opportunity cost of the $200 billion Iraqi invasion. To think, how much improvement in health care, education, child care, elder care, and scientific research could have been bought with that $200 billion?
· Bush opposes government funding of embryonic stem cell research despite near universal agreement among the scientific community of its importance. More broadly, more than 4,000 scientists including 48 Nobel laureates, 62 National Medal of Science recipients, and 127 members of the National Academy of Sciences have signed a statement, Restoring Scientific Integrity in Policymaking, accusing the Bush administration of widespread and unprecedented "manipulation of the process through which science enters into its decisions."
· Bush opposes a woman’s right to choose.
· At least in the bites the media chooses to show us, Bush appears frighteningly unintelligent.
· Bush is too beholding to corporate interests, which results in policies contrary to the national interest. His energy policy was precisely what the energy companies wanted. No surprise—the biggest donor to his 2000 campaign was Enron.
Bush’s tax policies transfer wealth from the poor and middle class to the rich, an acceleration of a long trend. Since 1960, the wealth gap between the top 20% and the bottom 20% was 30 fold. Four decades later, it is 75 fold. Taxes generated from payroll taxes have tripled while those from corporate income taxes have fallen 60 percent. This is causing increased pain for the already overburdened middle class family, in which two incomes may or may not cover basic expenses and leaves little time for key quality-of-life enhancers such as family time, recreation, and voluntarism. For many, skyrocketing housing and college costs have been backbreakers.
In addition, it is unclear whether transferring wealth to the wealthy yields sufficient trickle-down to justify the pain imposed on the middle class. Yes, adding capital to corporations stimulates investment, which in turn, creates improved products and more jobs, but much of that wealth simply gets socked away in personal stock and bond holdings that redistribute even more capital to wealthy individuals, exacerbating “The Two Americas” John Edwards talks about. In contrast, a tax cut for the middle class would largely get pumped right back in the economy—they buy the many things they otherwise could not afford to buy.
I cannot vote for George Bush.
http://www.johnkerry.com/index.html
· Like a Crusader, Bush invaded Iraq despite worldwide opposition. The results of that hubris are profound. He’s stirred a hornet’s nest of terrorists who are now swarming around us hell bent on our destruction. Meanwhile, he has ignored the more significant threats such as the tons of unaccounted for nuclear material making their way around the world’s black market. In addition, there’s the opportunity cost of the $200 billion Iraqi invasion. To think, how much improvement in health care, education, child care, elder care, and scientific research could have been bought with that $200 billion?
· Bush opposes government funding of embryonic stem cell research despite near universal agreement among the scientific community of its importance. More broadly, more than 4,000 scientists including 48 Nobel laureates, 62 National Medal of Science recipients, and 127 members of the National Academy of Sciences have signed a statement, Restoring Scientific Integrity in Policymaking, accusing the Bush administration of widespread and unprecedented "manipulation of the process through which science enters into its decisions."
· Bush opposes a woman’s right to choose.
· At least in the bites the media chooses to show us, Bush appears frighteningly unintelligent.
· Bush is too beholding to corporate interests, which results in policies contrary to the national interest. His energy policy was precisely what the energy companies wanted. No surprise—the biggest donor to his 2000 campaign was Enron.
Bush’s tax policies transfer wealth from the poor and middle class to the rich, an acceleration of a long trend. Since 1960, the wealth gap between the top 20% and the bottom 20% was 30 fold. Four decades later, it is 75 fold. Taxes generated from payroll taxes have tripled while those from corporate income taxes have fallen 60 percent. This is causing increased pain for the already overburdened middle class family, in which two incomes may or may not cover basic expenses and leaves little time for key quality-of-life enhancers such as family time, recreation, and voluntarism. For many, skyrocketing housing and college costs have been backbreakers.
In addition, it is unclear whether transferring wealth to the wealthy yields sufficient trickle-down to justify the pain imposed on the middle class. Yes, adding capital to corporations stimulates investment, which in turn, creates improved products and more jobs, but much of that wealth simply gets socked away in personal stock and bond holdings that redistribute even more capital to wealthy individuals, exacerbating “The Two Americas” John Edwards talks about. In contrast, a tax cut for the middle class would largely get pumped right back in the economy—they buy the many things they otherwise could not afford to buy.
I cannot vote for George Bush.
http://www.johnkerry.com/index.html
posted by Gary at 9:41 PM
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