Post by HStorm on Feb 10, 2005 17:39:11 GMT
Dubya has announced a typically ruthless and very pro-rich program of funding cuts in his rush to cover the enormous deficit in the US economy.
This involves reductions in spending on healthcare and education, and cut investments in infrastructure and welfare.
Bizarrely in this urgent battle to balance the books, Bush has still found room for a cut in taxes for the top bracket earners (which of course include people such as himself, Cheney and Rumsfeld), and massive reductions in inheritance tax - apparently the right of dead people to their money is more important than the needs of people who are still alive (nothing to do with the fact that Bush will inherit billions when his 80-odd year old Daddybush passes on of course...)
How typical of the Republicans to make sure that, once again, the burden of repairing the damage caused by the irresponsible rich is heaped on the shoulders of the helpless poor. All of these things were accurately predicted, even with a fair degree of statistical detail, by left-wing commentators such as Al Franken, Noam Chomsky and Michael Moore over the last two to three years, and they were dismissed by the neocons as "typical scare-mongering Liberal liars".
So much for looney left propoganda eh? How can anyone still trust the people on the American far right after all this?
This involves reductions in spending on healthcare and education, and cut investments in infrastructure and welfare.
Bizarrely in this urgent battle to balance the books, Bush has still found room for a cut in taxes for the top bracket earners (which of course include people such as himself, Cheney and Rumsfeld), and massive reductions in inheritance tax - apparently the right of dead people to their money is more important than the needs of people who are still alive (nothing to do with the fact that Bush will inherit billions when his 80-odd year old Daddybush passes on of course...)
How typical of the Republicans to make sure that, once again, the burden of repairing the damage caused by the irresponsible rich is heaped on the shoulders of the helpless poor. All of these things were accurately predicted, even with a fair degree of statistical detail, by left-wing commentators such as Al Franken, Noam Chomsky and Michael Moore over the last two to three years, and they were dismissed by the neocons as "typical scare-mongering Liberal liars".
So much for looney left propoganda eh? How can anyone still trust the people on the American far right after all this?
