"Four More Years of Bush" means unlimited corporate power; the end of a woman’s right to choose, and civil unions denied gays. Even passage of continuation of the tax-cuts, which were broadcast as mainly affecting the middle class, will cost $145 billion over ten years and over 80% of it is for corporate tax breaks. Apparently it would take an exorcist to remove from the conservative mind the “trickle-down” theory.
Over and over again we are reminded on JU and the media that Kerry’s proposal to restore the tax bracket on the rich will affect 900,000 small business people who otherwise benevolently would be creating jobs; yet one is compelled to ask, where are all these jobs? It is sheer tommyrot to claim that these small business, with the exception of a few are in the top tax bracket. The hair and nails salons, the neighboring auto mechanic, the local handyman, the garbage collectors, the 7/11, Dairy Farm, and Pizza Hut franchisees hardly fit into this bracket. Flea market and mall vendors and their ilk all over the nation are barely making ends meet, surely do not qualify for an increase in their taxes under Kerry’s plan.
"Four More Years of Bush" means a continuation of global alienation. We are told time and again that it is patriotic to hate France, Germany, Russia for not coöperating with our efforts in Iraq. According to O’Reilly the hatred is mutual because we cannot expect “secular socialists” to understand our godly, pristine values.
Included in these values is the Might of God to rectify the world through the divine right of Bush, the crusader. Here, is no room for enlightened diplomacy or simple straight talk with other leaders of the world — it’s either, or, the tongue bereft of the ear. Spain, for instance, cut and ran from Iraq, but gets no credit for continuing vigorously to track down al Qaeda; Mexico is no longer a friendly nation because it refused to go along with the war; Germany and France resent us only because we took from them their scandalous oil interests as though our own multinationals were not engaged in the same scandal. They are, in addition, excoriated for not increasing their military quotas in Afghanistan while we diverted ours. Putin no longer has a soul to look into because he resents us for interfering with Chechen terrorism, which somehow is not to be considered global. Moreover, Russia, on the brink of bankruptcy, is supposed to be the good Samaritan and forgive Iraqi loans consisting of billions. A UN that does not bend to our will is irrelevant. U.S. moral leadership of the globe will totally dissolve in four more years under the incumbent.
Copyright © 2004 Richard R. Kennedy All rights reserved. Revised: October 4, 2004.
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