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- SheilaNoya, on 10/10/2007, -8/+182Bush has incurred $3 TRILLION in new National Debt since he's been in office (more than ALL other presidents combined). What the hell do we have to show for it? It's time to start taking care of AMERICA now.
- notque, on 10/10/2007, -11/+147We are not important. We are "special interests". We are not the "national interest".
The national interest is corporations and profit. The special interest is just us. Of course we cannot compare to these tacit assumptions. - rjn17960, on 10/10/2007, -5/+93Bush isn't for the $22B because it doesn't directly flow to the corporate interests that put him in office.
- hawkeye17, on 10/10/2007, -5/+75I used to just think that Bush was stupid and a puppet of Cheney and the Neocons. More and more I am starting to think that he's just an evil man who's trying to do as much damage to America as he can before he leaves office.
- dmmorrison, on 10/10/2007, -6/+66Is this guy serious? He won't spend money for kids' health because we "can't afford" to raise the cost of a pack of cigs by 61 cents? Heck, we're not even talking about rolling back those tax cuts for the rich. Does he have no heart?
- Zarokima, on 10/10/2007, -3/+54"What the hell do we have to show for it?"
Vastly improved security and a world without terrorists, of course!
/sarcasm - treelovinhippie, on 10/10/2007, -5/+38FFS America, stage a coup or something!
Sure this douchebage Bush only has a year left, but he can easily drive the country into a bottomless pit and bring the rest of the world with it. - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -4/+36As a liberal tree-hugging *****, I resent being labeled as a Democrat. Those corporate ass sucking bastards aren't with me.
- InetRoadkill, on 10/10/2007, -2/+29Taking care of corporations as a matter of public policy at the expense of the general public at large is the very definition of fascism.
- physphd, on 10/10/2007, -2/+281) Not according to the World Health Organization and any other ranking you wish to look at. http://www.photius.com/rankings/healthranks.html
2) Not according to the National Education Association whom, as the ones doing the teaching, I trust more than our current president when it comes to education. http://www.nea.org/index.html
3) There are just too many sources to cite, but the broadest indicators like the Dow average just last year returned to PRE-Bush levels. That's a 6.5 year lull. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dow_Jones_Industrial_ ... As for unemployment, you need to check your facts. It is only now returning to PRE-Bush levels, and is not a historic low. http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:dVlihJbnRa8J: ... Let's also not forget that this administration has redefined how unemployment is calculated.
I can say I am not surprised that an administrataion supporter would offer only rhetoric and not check any facts. Commence with the namecalling, sir. - siszam, on 10/10/2007, -4/+27Bush is the biggest terrorist and traitor this country has ever seen.
- Brian48216, on 10/10/2007, -3/+24Makes me wonder if the people who voted for GW regret casting that vote....
- kevinosborne, on 10/10/2007, -2/+23"Wha? Our health care is among the best in the world."
50 million without care. Thats like the population of the UK
"A. Education is the responsibility of STATE government"
Suddenly leadership and aspiration rhetoric can be sidestepped for fingerpointing. 'No Child Left Behind' was a missed oppurtunity of poorly planned and implemented policy.
"RECORD LOW UNEMPLOYMENT"
Pretty much every single western country you whish to name has this. Its due to decreased birthrate and immgration not keeping up with demand. China has been posting 10%+ GDP grwoth for two decades, Australia hasn't had a downtick since 1994, most western governments have record budget surpluses. There is a reason the international market values your dollar less than the canadian one.
China and Russia will soon be back to challenging your superpower status. The expanded EU will be over 500 million consumers. Way to step on your own dick America - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -5/+26I so want to move to canada right now........just a few hundred miles away...........must......go.
- insomniac8400, on 10/10/2007, -0/+19Shouldn't veterans health care be already included in military budgets. The military shouldn't be getting extra money just because they forgot to plan for veterans health care.
- InetRoadkill, on 10/10/2007, -2/+20The program covers kids who are not eligible for medicaid. Bush's veto threat is really cold-blooded for someone who used to brag about "compassionate conservatism".
- spyd3rweb, on 10/10/2007, -1/+18probably because 'candidate bush' was vastly different than he is today. humble foreign policy, no nation building anyone?
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -18/+35I still can't decide whether I hate Democrats more or Repuplicans. Both wish to pick my pocket for different reasons and both expect me to embrace them for doing it. I'd rather empty my chamber into their respective heads and be done with both.
"give me liberty or give me death". Not a hard concept to understand, even for you liberal tree hugging ***** and you conservative war loving *****. - olik, on 10/10/2007, -5/+21I would digg it a hundred times if I could, wake up conservatives!
- iainc, on 10/10/2007, -0/+15Last time Americans got maltreated this badly, they had a revolution. But I suppose Americans were made of sterner stuff way back then.
Look guys and gals. Stop being so comfortably numb and take some action, any action (as long as it isn't on Digg). You need to organise civil disobedience on a massive scale to disrupt the system. Eventually you will need to have another revolution to replace the system.
The old Democrats/Republican dichotomy is a farce. They're two sides of the same coin. Democracy as you know it needs to be changed. - hierophantus, on 10/10/2007, -1/+15Really? What would that be? You "shudder to think" of it, so what is it you think of? Don't just hint darkly about it; what do you realistically think Gore would have done, bearing in mind he probably would have had a Republican Congress or a divided Congress to contend with for most or all of his (let's assume) two terms? I'm honestly interested in your speculation on this.
- playuhh, on 10/10/2007, -1/+15one DAMN good reason why nothing has happened to THEM? because we can sit here and say we're *****. What happened to the "***** THAT, NOT ON MY TAX DOLLAR" AmeriCAN.
***** being politically correct, humorous and witty to bring out these flaws in politicians, what happened to a good old political ass-kicking and de-facing? .If it boils in your blood like it does in mine every time you hear this man and your insides scream WHERE THE ***** IS THE HUMANITY? I can't ***** stand these michael moore style jabs at politicians anymore! (don't get me wrong... moore is the *****)
IT'S ABOUT TIME WE GOT LOUD AND ANGRY.
Seriously, conservatives you can say whatever ***** you want about LIBERAL THIS, LIBERALS THAT, but NO PERSON WITH A TRUE HEART CAN DENY, that the extreme-right is ***** EVIL BEYOND COMPARISON and their AGENDA is HEAVILY BASED on WHITE/CHRISTIAN SUPREMACY. You all ***** KNOW how many lives this war has destroyed and FOR WHAT? For your ***** CRUSADE because that's what is IMPORTANT to you. Deny it? TAKE A ***** LIE-DETECTOR TEST, find out what they REALLY REALIZE, BECAUSE THESE ***** ARE SMART, so it's NO QUESTION THAT THEY DON'T REALIZE WHAT THEY'RE DOING. And those evil men Bush and Cheney will be filthy rich upon exit from office.
The reason NEO-CON's don't give a ***** about spending billions on the war? because they'd rather spend their money cleansing the middle east, GETTING A RETURN ON THEIR INVESTMENTS, than on fellow americans. NEO-CON's are also the corporate sumbitchez that have money to burn and don't rely on any of said proposed "government spending"
You can all say, we're *****, but as unrealistic as it may seem (and surprisingly how ***** POSSIBLE it actually is)...
We could ***** band together and take back our country. But no one's with me huh... YEA you say "you've got passion! get involved!" ***** OFF...
THE ONLY ONES MAKING A DIFFERENCE ARE THE ONE'S SITTING AROUND DOING NOTHING.
4AM vent... not bad, huh? - unfairunbalance, on 10/10/2007, -1/+15Yea record gains on market. Too bad the value of the gains means nil. Don't you know the value of the American Dollar is less than the Canadian Dollar now. Bush has destroyed our currency!
- nblsavage, on 10/10/2007, -2/+16who started this damm war? Note: congress did not formally declare war. As far as I'm concerned Bush should be paying for it out of his pocketbook.
- hierophantus, on 10/10/2007, -1/+14Good idea. Then the roads and schools should improve all by themselves.
- Frnnkdlxx, on 10/10/2007, -1/+14Is anybody really surprised at what this crook does, anymore? I gave up after the Nigeria-like stealing of the election, which proved America was no better than a wartorn developing dictatorship.
- InetRoadkill, on 10/10/2007, -2/+15While congress controls the purse strings, the white house directs the budget.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -3/+15Did you look into your crystal ball and see that, *****?
Ironic though, that you support the war and yet you bleat about over-spending. - Mardala, on 10/10/2007, -1/+12Oh and I forgot p0s3r, this money you seem so proud to spend in Iraq is being held in a deficit to a COMMUNIST country. Just thought I would say that since I notice a lot of neo-con anti-american dumbasses keep refering to Liberals as communists. Well your fiscally responsible leader sold your soul to the commies. So chew on that apple.
- Rahodeb, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11He has to update his blog about it first.
- Mardala, on 10/10/2007, -2/+13You don't have any problem then spending $600 billion on the war? Which will return didly to the average american.
But domestic spending, if its not pork belly projects, tends to increase 1. Jobs, 2. Better infrastructure. Now isn't it the American thing to make sure Americans are taken care of? Would you rather have your taxes raised to pay off a substantial war debt or have them raised to make those pot holes go away and maybe get more work for your business? People talk as if the government shouldn't spend a dime on American and Americans. WTF? You already pay taxes dumbass. Where would you like to see that money go?
I hope you are smart enough to realize that we still owe this money in Iraq. Thanks to some careful political planning and really bad accounting practices, the US now has a massive debt that you and I will sometime have to start paying off. And trust me it won't come from a cigarette tax. It will come from your job paying less, your benefits being decreased, your job security in question, the dollar decreasing in value and rising inflation. So p0s3r I have one sentence for you: "Wake the ***** up!" - mithrasinvictus, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11Why not fund it with a tax on the companies that profit from the war?
- sirbeta, on 10/10/2007, -2/+12Money to help War ($200 Billion) vs. Money to help the inhabitance of our Nation ($22 Billion) - Tough choice...
- cathpah, on 10/10/2007, -3/+13no, he does have a heart.....it's just cold, black and evil.
- hierophantus, on 10/10/2007, -3/+13Yes, poor brainless submissive underclass, so unlike the world-weary and aware conservative rich-wannabes (none of whom have ever lived in a trailer or a rented room). So easy to keep them down, while it's nearly impossible to lead red-staters around by the nose and get their votes just by, say, controlling them with fear and stoking their hate for their enemies.
- Rahodeb, on 10/10/2007, -1/+11Uhm, Ron Paul is a republican. If he was running against a democrat, that would mean he won the primary and wouldn't be stealing votes from anyone.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -2/+12Lets vote for a revolutionary idea, like freedom this time. Lets not just have another changing of the guard with a new member of the Washington political nobility sitting on the throne for four years.
- wtfpwned98, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10You all deserve the kind of backwards country you would have if there were no periodic gains made by progressives. We work to save you from yourselves.
"As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their hearts desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron." - H. L. Mencken, 1920 - StatiK69, on 10/10/2007, -5/+14Bush can make baby jesus cry.
- samxmas888, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9Unbelievable.
When are the citizens of the US going to stand up to this ***** moron? - insomniac8400, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8Because those are the same companies that would find a loophole to get out of it.
- j0keR, on 10/10/2007, -2/+10You know, if the country is hemmoraging that much money it might as well be domestic spending, but you should know that simply redistributing wealth somewhere else isn't going to solve any problems. That kind of ***** just polarizes the country even further. Every time I point that out on Digg I get dugg down by party fanatics, but it's true. One side wants their boondoggles, the other wants theirs too. One war, the other welfare. The answer is neither. We need to let citizens keep their money, because it's better off in their hands than as some political football. Cry like a little bitch for 8 years, and then you get your way for 8 years before you have to cry like a little bitch all over again. Why do I get the feeling nobody's going to get the point until the empire collapses?
- syroncoda, on 10/10/2007, -2/+10i wonder when the country will wake up to these sick ***** we "voted" in ?
- OHaloThar, on 10/10/2007, -4/+12OK, all you democrats. How about you stop bitching and actually do something?
- etnu, on 10/10/2007, -2/+10Bitching about this on Digg is probably going to fix everything.
Why not, I don't know, actually do something about it? At least write your representatives or something. - brufleth, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9Really. I'd be very interested to know what people thought was so bad about them. So they didn't prance around in a cowboy hat pretending to be the Marlboro man. Bush went to school in MA and CT and is as much a Texan as the Queen of England. What problems would they have totally screwed up and how?
- brufleth, on 10/10/2007, -2/+9@NonLeftistDiggr
Please site examples where your theories have worked. - brufleth, on 10/10/2007, -2/+9Wow. I see two others have beat me to the direct response so I'll just ask, where DID you come up with the justification of your statements? I'd like to know how you managed to analyze the state of our employment, health care, etc and came up with the conclusions you stated. I'm just interested in where such delusions are coming from.
- zanzzz, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8I've mostly been frustrated with Democrats and never more so than now. Having said that there is a far great threat to this country and its name is Republican. Can any intelligent and informed American that voted for a Republican not hang their head in shame at what you have unleashed upon this world? There are few if any "conservatives" in that malignant party. By their words and actions we see reactionary fascists intent on creating an anti Constitutional surveillance war machine with no accountability. The cynical manipulation of media and government under secrecy and "psych ops", sowing fear and divisiveness to further a corporatist ideology is nearing fruition. All that is left for them to reach their goal is another terroristic display of sufficient gravity within the country to render all Constitutional legalisms as quaint. On the "right" we see the batch of new emperor wannabes stoking the hate machine yet again. Wake up!
- Bdog2g2, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8Guys Guys,
Please no more facts and truths....they just get in the way of the one man Bush circle jerk. -
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