Congress is so horrible that..........

............they will run an advertisement to bolster themselves. I don't know whether to laugh or cry.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/fn/5024646.html


1. Raising the minimum wage. Result: Employers lay off the least productive workers...the very group the increase is supposed to help. Also, it puts pressure on inflation.
2. Expanded health care. Result: No real plan in place. If passed, your taxes will increase to pay for it. The Wisconsin Plan suggests over $500 per month in higher payroll taxes. Also expect decreased quality and longer waits like the experience in Canada. Hillary has already promised a tax increase.
3. End the war. Result: They haven't done a damn thing, other than help our enemies.
4. Immigration. Result: They don't even want to talk about this one.

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i opt for crying, because you know this won't end here. The repubs will be doing a countering ad soon. This is a new trend.

I think anyone that partakes in this should be voted out of office. Its an outrage.

[bradclark1]

You are kidding right. You are against lower-income children having health care?
You are for tax breaks for the rich, but against the poor having a pay raise since a decade. Surely a dollar isn't the same as ten years ago?

3. End the war. Result: They haven't done a damn thing, other than help our enemies.

What have we accomplished in Iraq so far after five years?

Originally Posted by bradclark1

You are kidding right. You are against lower-income children having health care?
You are for tax breaks for the rich, but against the poor having a pay raise since a decade. Surely a dollar isn't the same as ten years ago?

What have we accomplished in Iraq so far after five years?

I'm not at all against lower-income people (children included) having health care, and it is available for them. Priorities of those low-income families are the subject, not availability.

Tax cuts aren't just for the rich. That is the big lie. The middle class bears the greatest tax burden and the class which receive the greatest cuts. The 'poor' don't pay income tax. Perhaps a national sales tax iso income tax would be more fair.

National democratic elections is certainly progress, especially after a dictatorship going back to 1979.

[bradclark1]

Tax cuts aren't just for the rich. That is the big lie. The middle class bears the greatest tax burden and the class which receive the greatest cuts. The 'poor' don't pay income tax. Perhaps a national sales tax iso income tax would be more fair.

Over the ten-year period, the richest Americans—the best-off one percent—are slated to receive tax cuts totaling almost half a trillion dollars. The $477 billion in tax breaks the Bush administration has targeted to this elite group will average $342,000 each over the decade.
By 2010, when (and if) the Bush tax reductions are fully in place, an astonishing 52 percent of the total tax cuts will go to the richest one percent—whose average 2010 income will be $1.5 million. Their tax-cut windfall in that year alone will average $85,000 each. Put another way, of the estimated $234 billion in tax cuts scheduled for the year 2010, $121 billion will go just 1.4 million taxpayers.
http://www.ctj.org/html/gwb0602.htm

I'm not at all against lower-income people (children included) having health care, and it is available for them. Priorities of those low-income families are the subject, not availability.

Thats not what you said in item 2 of your opening comments in regards to that ad.

Originally Posted by waste gate

National democratic elections is certainly progress, especially after a dictatorship going back to 1979.

This subject has been beat to death so I'll leave it alone.

[bradclark1]

4. Immigration. Result: They don't even want to talk about this one.

Forgot this one.
Yes, I do agree with you on this one.

[August]

Originally Posted by bradclark1

Put another way, of the estimated $234 billion in tax cuts scheduled for the year 2010, $121 billion will go just 1.4 million taxpayers.

You're talking amounts. What's the percentage of tax cut?

[Dowly]

[quote=waste gate]

Originally Posted by bradclark1

What have we accomplished in Iraq so far after five years?

Amen.

[SUBMAN1]

[quote=Dowly]

Originally Posted by waste gate

Amen.

Even so, wait 1 year after we leave and see what we will accomplish - No one likes to talk about all the dead iraqies if we leave, but mass muder and mass deaths will be the result. That is why we are still there - hoping they can eventually get a grip and an arm around their own country.

If we leave now, we will be responsible for one of the greatest mass murders in the aftermath in history.

Amazing how no one looks at that side when they talk of pulling out. It is our duty to help them for 10 years even if it takes them that long to be able to control the situation themselves.

-S