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You opined, "Bush doesn't want to raise the gas tax because he claims it will hurt the economy. What he ignores is that he's the president that's RAISED THE DEFICIT MORE THAN ALL OTHER PRESIDENT'S COMBINED!!! This has hurt the economy more than any type of tax increase ever could."
I guess you haven't been following the news, such little as the lamestreamers have mentioned, about how rapidly that deficit is being paid off thanks to record tax revenues generated by the economy you belittle. See the story at http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2007/8/11/90140.shtml?s=mo for the latest - it's been reduced to $157.3 billion, a 34% reduction in a year's time - and my commentary at http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/General/EditPost.aspx?post=482039.
To summarize my analysis of the story, would not the deficit be paid off even faster if the Democrats reduced their record spending as he has asked them to do?
Basic economics - raise the taxes, slow the economy. Lower the taxes, stimulate the economy. The recession that helped produce the deficit you criticize was brought on in no small part by Bubba's massive tax increases, ending years of economic growth traceable to the Reagan tax cuts that remedied Mr. Peanut's national malaise. Bubba and Mr. Peanut? Democrats. Reagan and Bush? Republicans.
posted by
WriterofLight
on August 12, 2007 at 6:48 PM
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Re: please tell me what you think of this poem I wrote
It's awkward, but with some editing you can improve it.
posted by
WriterofLight
on August 12, 2007 at 6:41 PM
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please tell me what you think of this poem I wrote
Oh twisted heart and perilous spine
from what depths have you come
with a tainted grin, intentions, un-divine
Engrossing everything you touch
Conscience wiped out and replaced by evil and such
Eyes of glass and feelings of a manequin
making decisions not only for yourself
but also for the masses.
Have you really thought it out, or just following your gut?
Have you a plan to get them out, or are you stuck?
Oh, wretched heart and being of no humility
has the pride overtaken the true meaning of your duty
Can you not hear the souls marching to a resting place, 6 feet under?
Are you that mute and blind or are you just waiting to duck and cover?
We may not be there, but the cries and the tears are too salty to bare,
and the absence of youth, sting us in this uncommitted affair.
So many people cannot be wrong, please find a way,
if not for the right reason...
...at least so that your judgement can be on hold for just one more day!
posted by
JMO_
on August 12, 2007 at 5:20 PM
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Right On Brother
posted by
Shams-i-Heartsong
on August 12, 2007 at 12:11 AM
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