Dear Friend Skeptic,
Obviously I disagree, but then again that's why you posted this word monster isn't it?
The Bush administration and Secretary Evans, chose not to correct the undercount of more than 3 million Americans in the 2000 Census
If they're not counted, how do you know there are more than 3 million of them?
The Democrats believe that every person, like every vote should be counted
No, the democrats believe every BALLOT should be counted, spoiled, disqualified or illegal. "Vote Early and Often" (how offensive)
The Republicans clearly do not..A disproportionate percentage of people of color, children and the urban poor are not included in this count
Of course they do, but COUNTED not estimated. If they can't be bothered to come forward and be counted, then THEY DON'T EXIST!
3-14-01 Bush's senate Republicans defeated a measure yesterday that would have kept medicare surplus from being spent on anything other than Medicare, or Debt reduction
Good, that means the working stiffs will be getting a tax cut.
3-14-01 "You can't say one thing and do amother" GWBUSH, Orlando Sentinel 10-31-00 Bush broke his Explicit Promise to reduce harmful emmissions
A mother? (Ahem, I mean) You mean that horrible harmful toxin CO2?
The impact of floods, droughts and deadly heatwaves and crop failures will have crippling consequences on the US, the world and the economy
Yes, it snowed here today (8 Apr), we still have several feet of snow standing on the lawn (it's so damn hot). Plants turn CO2 into Oxygen (which can kill you if you get too much). Plants (crops)like WARM TEMPERATURES, WATER AND CO2!
CO2 is a non-issue!
3-16-01 Bush takes his "dispassionate neglet" to America's public housing.(The Public Housing Drug Elimination Program) His decision to decrease funding (only half of the 310M for security, hightr utilities and other operational costs) in order to get Religious groups involved in neighborhoods, is another example of Republicans longterm insensitivity toward persons living in public housing
No, it's an example of Republican insensitivity to duplicate programs that don't work except to provide jobs to the do-nothing arrogant bureaucrats that staff them.
Since it's been tried and failed BIG TIME, the Liberal's way, I don't see how letting a little religion (of any kind) could hurt.
3-23-01 Bush Breaks Another Promise: Plans Cuts in Child Care and Child abuse Prevention.Bush's promise "to leave no child behind" now sounds like other notable Bush betrayals, like the promise to reduce greenhouse gas emmissions. He plans to cut grants that help low income families afford child care by 200 million: child abuse prevention by over $15 million, and completely eliminate the $20 million "early learning fund" Also, considerating large cuts in the $235 Million programs that train pediatricians and other doctors in childrens hospitals. About 900,000 children suffer from abuse or neglect each year.
Like I said....failed redundant programs and "nonessential" union thug bureaucrats.
Remember when clinton shut down the government and blamed the Republicans? NOTHING HAPPENED!!!
This is exactly the kind of anti-GOP demonization propaganda I got in trouble for describing early on in my Mudcat "career". "Starve school children, throw old people out of nursing homes, kill more people" (algor et al)
Did it ever occur to you that Republicans have children, love their parents and grandparents, like clean air and drinking water?
*apparently Bush and the Republicans believe that EVERY CHILD SHOULD BE BORN, but once they enter this world, they will have to find some other way to survive, that they won't get any help from the federal government!
I'd take one, maybe two.
Ask Jerry Falwell, he puts his money where his mouth is. We don't think the answer is to just kill them.
3-15-01 Bush announced that National Monuments have potential for drilling. He said the administration will look at ALL PUBLIC LANDS for energy
More land was confiscated under the clinton administration than ever before in US history. You don't really think there will be mining and drilling in National Parks do you? Another bit of scare propaganda.
3-17-01 Bush administration filed a motion today, to postpone the date when one-third of our national forests would become off limits to developement. The move opend the door for negotiations between the Bush Administration and TIMBER INTERESTS.* big surprise! This act would overrule Clintons Roadless Forests Designations
Guess what, they grow back. The government shouldn't own huge tracts of land anyway, that really is socialism.
If they are going to allow land use, they should charge handsomely for it (to reduce the citizen's tax burden). However it should either be in private ownership or given back to the Indians.
3-20-01 Bush announces he will block new rules limiting ARSENIC LEVELS in water. The new rules would have slashed acceptable levels of arsenic by 80% bringing into complience with codes already agreed upon by both the World Health Organization and the European Union and would have upgraded the arsenic standard for the first time in 60 years
How many cases of arsenic poisoning from drinking water have been documented (or even estimated) in the last 60 years?
Municipal waste treatment practices are a MAJOR contributing source of the problem in the first place.
The 5 to 10 parts per billion arsenic standard may be financially or virtually IMPOSSIBLE to achieve! Meaning NO WATER!
I wouldn't drink that crap anyway. Do you consider government water to be fit for human consumption?
It's a stupid goal in the first place to provide "pure" municipal water for purposes which largely do not affect health and mostly go on the lawn or DOWN THE TOILET!!!
3-22-01 Bush's Federal agencies blocked today, an initiative to help save the Pacific Salmon, a Clinton initiative.
Simply because it's a clinton initiative, it should be opposed.
1-22-01 "I expect every member of this administration to stay well within the boundries that define legal and ethical conduct. This means avoiding EVEN THE APPEARENCE of problems" President G.W.Bush
Bush-appointed Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, has decided NOT to divest himself of $100 Million in holdings of ALCOA (aluminum) a company he used to run. Bush is taking the economy into another Bush Resession, but his appointee's unusual stock arrangement, has unlimited growth potential. Last year alone, O'Neill made $50 Million in pay and stock options from Alcoa. As Treasury Secretary, O'Neill will be called on to set policy on a wide range of vital issues, including taxes, trade, and the strength of the dollar, that can influence Alcoa's and his own Profits. No matter how honest O'Neill is, the credibility of US economic policy is at stake, and there exists the appearence of a conflict of interests. *it is imposible to not consider his own personal position when setting policy.
3-22-01 Bush Says No to Bipartisan Patients' Rights Bill Because it's too Costly-
It's also not a federal function. Had I mentioned that bipartisan *BLEEPS*?
In his zeal to pay back his donors and oppose ANYTHING John McCain supports, GWB would rather let the bill die than to do anything truely beneficial for the American people
I think you have that backwards, democrat McCain would rather pursue his own anti-Bush agenda than do anything truely beneficial for the American people.
3-20-01 Continuing his Texas record, Bush will carry on with Judicial appointments that do not reflect the make up of America
I think we already have enough LSC judges to represent the political makeup of the former USSR and the CHI-COMS!
and has gone so far as to RECIND 10 apointees for judgeship that Clinton submitted.
That's not enough, there must be some more!
Bush rejected Judge Gregory, a African American, the first to sit on the bench on the 4th US court of Appeals
I'm sure he was a staunch conservative. (I don't care what color he is)
and BOTH Virginia REPUBLICAN senators approved his appointment on a permenent basis
He's just less PC than they are. You can do that when you are the President.
Continuing with his TEXAS policy of appointments , the breakdown was 77% White 13%Hispanic and 9% Black, although Texas population is broken down 57% White 28%Hispanic and 11% African American
There's that skin color thing again, maybe he couldn't find enough conservatives among those ethnic groups. You know he has one or two represented in his cabinet.
He doesn't believe in quotas anyway.
"It is important that Bush use his Power od Judicial Appointments as a chance to create EQUAL JUSTICE UNDER THE LAW, and not to turn the judiciary into another conservative think tank"
I don't know who said that, but I prefer the constitutionalist judges to those criminal loving LSC types.
3-21-01 Bush Blows Off Electoral Reform. Bush returns to Florida as Administration refuses Extra Money for Federal Elections Committee. He refused a request fot 5.5 Million over two years for its office of election administration, the only federal office with power to address how elections are run. "George W Bush , Jeb Bush and the Republican party are at it again with their double talk, two step strategy. On the one hand, they send out K Harris, to say they are in favor of reform
It's not a federal issue since there is no such thing as a federal election.
but on the other hand they refuse to fund REAL efforts to reform the system on a State or National level.
It is at the very most a STATE issue, but that is between the states and the various local political districts. You can't tell me that Palm Beach County and Miami are too poor to fund a better system.
Even SOCIALIST Canada had better elections than Miami/Dade, Broward and Palm Beach with PAPER BALLOTS!
What's wrong with that improvement???
They not only turned down the request, but it also askes the FEC to CUT $1.4 Million from the $42.8 Million budget
Good! They should kill it. That's another expense that the working poor should not be expected to shoulder, funding political campaigns.
Although Bush called for a repairing the tattered system that PUT him in the whitehouse, he rejected its first FORMAL opportunity to help fix the problems
Bush did his campaign exactly right. Full disclosure on the internet. You can look it up and see that it was mostly small contributors.
Those who agree with you should be able to GIVE you money, no limits. If nobody likes you....no money (see Elizabeth Dole). That's the first cut before the primaries.
2-9-01 Bush to close Office of AIDS national Policy and the Office on the presidents ONE AMERICA, and transfer their responsibilities somewhere else.
The key phrase here is "transfer their responsibilities somewhere else". More redundancy.
Closing the Whitehouse offices created by President Clinton, specifically to fight the spread of AIDS
The "spread of AIDS" is spawned by deliberate irresponsible behavior; promiscuity and intervenous drug use. Unless you engage in such activities you are very UNLIKELY to get AIDS.
If I know that (due to public service announcements) everybody knows it.
"Discrimination continues to be a serious problem in America
I dispute that premise and suggest that discrimination is against the law and can result in prosecution or lawsuits.
2-26-01 Bush tax plan: Cut Homeless aid and Cops to pay for tax cut for the Wealthy.Proposed cuts of $1 Billion to the Justice Dept. Will impact drug inforcement, and law enforcement hiring community police officers. The plan calls for cuts in the 50 programs for the homeless
Good, good, good! Those are not federal government responsibilities.
Bush also wants to abolish COPS program and turn it into block grants
It could only be better if it was returned to the taxpayers.
regards,
mav out