In Bush's speech today, he promised action on reforming the tax code and social security, listing them as his top domestic priorities. Of course it's far from certain until a bill is signed, but if Bush wasn't planning on doing anything I don't think he'd be talking about it so loudly after the election.
Sure he would.rustycoonNovember 4 2004, 13:30:40 UTC
He's hoping to pull popular support even more in his direction so people won't notice what all else he'll do. They'll be waiting and watching for a tax cut he can dazzle them with so he can get down to rewinding civil rights.
It's a clever move, and it worked for him for four years, why stop now? Example: He talked about having increased pell grants, etc. Why has my scholarship payment been cut in half?
Re: Sure he would.maniakesNovember 4 2004, 14:03:47 UTC
There are many things Bush says that I'm skeptical of, but he has a consistant track record of delivering promised tax cuts.
I don't know why your personal pell grant has fallen (I don't know enough about either the program or your personal situation to speculate), but this coming year's budget does increase both the maximum size of awards and the overall funding.
Aside from the paradox...rustycoonNovember 4 2004, 13:48:30 UTC
I have a different theory on why the shift towards the Republican party.
I believe voters, much like investors, were scared away from stocks and went for bonds.
Voters are, quite possibly, the single most cowardly entities on the face of the earth, as a rule. Fear motivates them to cast their vote, and both candidates - as is done in every election - tried to make the other guy look scarier.
The problem is, we've reached the point, where so many outright lies get thrown around in the mudslinging, that nothing that anyone says can be considered worth listening to anymore unless it's clearly and logically reasoned out; a process that takes so long to do that not even 1% of the voters would bother to sit through it
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Re: Aside from the paradox...maniakesNovember 4 2004, 14:28:14 UTC
Of course, he didn't mean you or I, he meant for millionares who are the Republican's real constituants, but in the sea of lies, no one can tell truth from fiction anymore, and they WANT to believe.
My taxes have been lower every year of the Bush administration that they would have been without his tax cut. Last I checked, I'm not a millionaire. Although I hope to be some day.
He further promised to make all those scary towelheads and gay people go away. Scary people dying and being persecuted and told to 'cure themselves' is the easiest, most natural thing for people who are suffering to do.On the "towelhead" front, Bush has said over and over again that only a small minority of the "towelheads" are "scary", and that minority is responsible for both the terrorist threat against the US and the poverty and oppression of much of the muslim world. His strategy has been based on the use of force to overthrow oppressive terrorist-sponsoring regimes and attempting to replace them with relatively free societies on the assumption that a
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Re: Aside from the paradox...rustycoonNovember 4 2004, 14:37:28 UTC
I wasn't suggesting Bush is homophobic and racist, or that Kerry is some kind of paladin, or even actually distinguishable from Bush in most respects. I believe all of the above, but I'm not so stupid as to actually use that as an argument.
What I was trying to say is that those stereotypes of the candidates represented the apparent and visible choice the two candidates had. I pointed to the specific aspects of each that their supporters grabbed on to and touted to each other. Bush isn't racist, but you better believe most of our country is. (Even Dems
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It's a clever move, and it worked for him for four years, why stop now? Example: He talked about having increased pell grants, etc. Why has my scholarship payment been cut in half?
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I don't know why your personal pell grant has fallen (I don't know enough about either the program or your personal situation to speculate), but this coming year's budget does increase both the maximum size of awards and the overall funding.
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I believe voters, much like investors, were scared away from stocks and went for bonds.
Voters are, quite possibly, the single most cowardly entities on the face of the earth, as a rule. Fear motivates them to cast their vote, and both candidates - as is done in every election - tried to make the other guy look scarier.
The problem is, we've reached the point, where so many outright lies get thrown around in the mudslinging, that nothing that anyone says can be considered worth listening to anymore unless it's clearly and logically reasoned out; a process that takes so long to do that not even 1% of the voters would bother to sit through it ( ... )
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My taxes have been lower every year of the Bush administration that they would have been without his tax cut. Last I checked, I'm not a millionaire. Although I hope to be some day.
He further promised to make all those scary towelheads and gay people go away. Scary people dying and being persecuted and told to 'cure themselves' is the easiest, most natural thing for people who are suffering to do.On the "towelhead" front, Bush has said over and over again that only a small minority of the "towelheads" are "scary", and that minority is responsible for both the terrorist threat against the US and the poverty and oppression of much of the muslim world. His strategy has been based on the use of force to overthrow oppressive terrorist-sponsoring regimes and attempting to replace them with relatively free societies on the assumption that a ( ... )
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What I was trying to say is that those stereotypes of the candidates represented the apparent and visible choice the two candidates had. I pointed to the specific aspects of each that their supporters grabbed on to and touted to each other. Bush isn't racist, but you better believe most of our country is. (Even Dems ( ... )
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The Welfare State: My Dad voted for Bush becuase Democrats know that you can't take care of yourself, while Republicans demand that you do so.
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