Posted by jordanlund on 09/26/05 08:45

"Well, you just gave the seal of approval to Bush's war since
Iraq was overflowing with mass graves.."

Nope. Because the Iraqi mass graves were in place before the 1991 war.
At the end of the first Gulf War we gave Saddam a pass on anything he
did prior. As long as he kept his nose clean we would leave him alone.

It was only after an Iranian agent (Amhed Chalabi, you remember him,
right?) started passing bogus info to the Bush administration that it
all of a sudden became necessary to take Saddam out. The Bushies were
too stupid to tell good intelligence from bad intelligence.

How does it feel to be a tool of the Iranian government?

"Then you top it off by saying that if I make less then 200 grand (it
was
100 grand before) I'm a moron for being a Republican because they don't
care about me.

Get this straight, I DON'T WANT government caring for me. I want
government to stay the fuck out of my way and out of my life and out of
my pocket."

The Republicans are actively hostile to anyone who isn't in their
little group. There's a great book on the subject called "Perfectly
Legal". I suggest you check it out. You want to be left alone? Great.
Start voting Libertarian because it's not going to happen if you keep
supporting the Republicans.

"Let me tell you what moronic is? Voting for people that have a vested
interest in keeping you poor and needy. Voting for a bunch of Limousine
Liberals that live it up big on tax payers money but that's okay
because
they are for raising the monthly food stamp limit."

You think the Republicans DONT do this? Man, you really are deluded.

"Perfect example: They want to raise the minimum wage even though they
know that when they do, most companies have a set amount of money to
pay
employees and when the minimum wage is raised most companies just end
up
cutting both hours and employees."

Doesn't happen. I'm fortunate to live in a state with one of the
highest minimum wages in the country. Know what that means? It means't
that more people have more money to spend. The Republican notion of
trickle down economics does not work, has never worked and will never
work. The only way to build a strong economy is to get money into the
hands of those most likely to spend it, i.e. the lower and lower middle
class.

"Keep feeding the monster Jordon, it's all you can really do. Or is it?
"

Keep on repeating the party line, seig heil! Meanwhile, reality is
laughing at you:

http://www.epinet.org/content.cfm/webfeatures_econindicators_income20050831

The real income of the typical household has fallen five years in a
row, despite the fact that the last three of those years-2002, 2003,
and 2004-have been years of economic expansion. Over these years,
our workforce has become a great deal more productive, as output per
hour is up 15% from 2000 to 2004. Yet, as shown in Figure 1, these
productivity gains have failed to reach the typical household.

The number and share of persons in poverty also increased last year,
from 12.5% to 12.7%, the fourth consecutive increase since poverty hit
11.3% in 2000 (the end of the last expansion). Since that year, 5.4
million more persons, including 1.4 million children, have been added
to the poverty rolls.

The key factor behind the deterioration of real household income and
increase in poverty is the prolonged labor market slump that began in
2001. Although the job market expanded consistently in 2004-the
Census report shows the addition of 1.5 million workers in 2004 over
2003-this addition was not faster than the growth of total households
and not enough to absorb the labor market slack left over from the
longest jobless recovery on record. These conditions are constraining
the bargaining power of many in the workforce, such that the benefits
of overall growth are failing to reach working families.

In another example of the diminished bargaining power of working
Americans, the greatest declines in health insurance coverage occurred
in employment-based insurance, which has dropped every year since 2000.
In 2000, 63.6% of the population had employment-based coverage. By
2004, this rate had dropped to 59.8%. Though some workers picked up
health coverage through public sources or from another family member's
coverage, nearly 800,000 more workers were uninsured in 2004 compared
to 2003. A full 19.0% of all workers were uninsured in 2004.

- Jordan

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