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So, Bush tells us we have to make tough spending cuts here at home, but he wants to spend $100 million On Someone Else's Military?!
posted by timault at 12:21 P.M. EST on Thu Feb 10, 2005 #
Bush's has led the U.S. into a $600 Billion deficit. So, what's another $100 million? The man has no regard at all for the needs of poor and working-class people. But he works very hard to help big business and wealthy Americans keep their money out of tax doles. He's a reverse Robin Hood.
posted by Chaz at 03:14 P.M. EST on Thu Feb 10, 2005 #
AT LEAST HE DIDN'T FORGET POLAND!
posted by Guest at 02:17 A.M. EST on Fri Feb 11, 2005 #
100 million dollars isn't a lot of money to the U.S. government. its nothing, Poland may actually be insulted because 100 million is enough to sound like a lot to citizens who don't know any better but it can't help them very much when it comes down to it yet it looks like we helped. I mean come on do you think 100 million dollars is something to the U.S., Really?
posted by Guest at 04:09 A.M. EST on Fri Feb 11, 2005 #
Would the 100 million dollars be a pay off for Poland’s support of the ill advised war in Iraq?
posted by mike2004 at 06:20 A.M. EST on Fri Feb 11, 2005 #
It would have purchased a lot of meals for homeless Americans.
posted by Chaz at 11:43 A.M. EST on Fri Feb 11, 2005 #
How many students could have been helped afford college? How many schools could have been repaired/replaced/refurbished for the digital age for $100 million? How many more police officers could have been put on the street for $100 million?
And our White House proposes giving this money to foreigners?!? Whose side are they on?
posted by timault at 12:21 P.M. EST on Fri Feb 11, 2005 #
Bush's economic-globalist views are enough in line with Clinton's culture-globalist views, as it concerns giving away American wealth to other nations for very specific purposes that revolve around whatever class of elitist that subscribes to the viewpoint at the time. As an American working man, I consider myself to have been under significant attack since the 1980s. The brand of elitism practiced by Bush and his pack of Neo-Cons is just more of the same.
The $100 million isn't much, considering Bush and his tame Congress put us another $400+ billion in the hole last year from the federal budget. The projection for 2005 is about $500 billion. The medicare-drug projection has now climbed to over $700 billion over a 10-year period. The 2004 trade deficit is about $600 billion.
Wheeeee! The more we treat the American dollar as "play money", the more like play money it will become. It's essentially true that (as Cheney allegedly said) "deficits don't matter" ... they DON'T matter if there's no stable future planned for most American taxpayers. In this view, American corporations can be seen to be globalizing out of sheer self-defense when the American dollar finally undergoes a wholesale devaluation. Too bad for the rest of us. Perhaps in 2008, we'll stop voting in Pro-Corporation Stooge #1 (i.e. a Republican) or Pro-Corporation Stooge #2 (i.e. a Democrat), and instead put in men of character who actually know our problems, admit to them, and then will use executive power to fix them.
posted by Guest at 04:23 A.M. EST on Sun Feb 13, 2005 #
C'mom folks, Let's give President Bush a chance to be president before nitpicking everything he's doing.
I for one believe that he's on a roll.
posted by Hooda_Thunkit at 07:10 P.M. EST on Fri Feb 18, 2005 #
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