Where is the money for all that going to come from? Remember, the guy was the mayor of Cleveland... and the city went into default. What would he do to the whole friggin' country?
Kucinich rah rahlytabentenJanuary 8 2008, 12:09:48 UTC
He was vindicated for that by the city council and the US Senate. The city was forced into default by First Energy as a ploy to strong arm him into selling a local power plant that had been preventing them from price gouging. His resolve eventually saved the city several million dollars.
Between repealing some of the ridiculous tax cuts from 2001 and cutting way back on the projected 137 billion+ we're spending on just the Iraq war (not including additional requested funds that amount to something like 45 billion, but don't quote me until I download adobe and the budget overview on this comp), and quite possibly modest tax increases (hell, I'd be willing to pay an immodest tax increase for universal health care and free education), I think he could build something great.
To clarify, First Energy leaned on several major banks to not forgive the city's short term loans in a bid to force him to sell the plant. They didn't, like, cut his brake lines or kidnap his family and then send him threatening notes. Officially. Dude did have the mafia on him though, and tin hats tell stories.
Oh, I know about the whole First Energy thing. I think the reasonable thing to do would've been to sell the friggin' plant. As for tax increases and cutting the spending on the "war"... I think we (the general population) are already being taxed too much and, oh God, don't even get me started on Iraq and why immediate withdrawl is a horrible idea. Yeah, we need to get out, but there are some problems with just up and leaving... although I'll agree with you that cutting spending there would be pretty rad. :)
Oh, man, I would be so into to Kucinich if I thought any of that was possible during one modern presidential term, but as it stands, I'm a cynic, so I would really wait until a president had all of Congress and the Court behind before he was going to go for that stuff. It's a nice dream, though, and the guy has balls for taking those platforms, to be sure.
I am a horrible idealist sometimes. I know he doesn't really stand a chance, and I'll be voting Obama when the elections come round. But oh god if Kucinich doesn't have my total devotion for any other position he wants to try for.
I would marry Kucinich. He rocks that hard. I wish I could have had a 100%, but he has a pretty hard stance on guns and I'm all, "But what about zoooombies?" so we don't mesh completely.
I loved that! I saw it a few days ago and made a desktop out of it. A prudent use of twenty minutes of my life letmetellyou.
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Between repealing some of the ridiculous tax cuts from 2001 and cutting way back on the projected 137 billion+ we're spending on just the Iraq war (not including additional requested funds that amount to something like 45 billion, but don't quote me until I download adobe and the budget overview on this comp), and quite possibly modest tax increases (hell, I'd be willing to pay an immodest tax increase for universal health care and free education), I think he could build something great.
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Oh. And I figured you'd appreciate this:
http://www.cogitamusblog.com/2008/01/the-gop-primary.html
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I loved that! I saw it a few days ago and made a desktop out of it. A prudent use of twenty minutes of my life letmetellyou.
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