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ok so how will we be better off with kerry?

hamstershaver

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first off this is my first and definately last political thread becasue hammy is as unpolitical as you can be.
Ok with Bush we are at war, and its a war i think we shouldnt be in, his bad.
I have also noticed that my taxes are lower with Bush and dude gave me one of those refund checks a few years ago, and for hammy its all about the benjamins.

Now what is Kerry gonna do to make things better for me?
Wodin you love him so much but all i really see you do is talk about is how bad Bush is, tell me whats going to be good with Kerry
 
This is what Kerry will do to make things "better":

1) Higher tax rate
2) More government involvement
3) Military forces ridiculed and degraded
4) Theresa Heinz will be the first lady, what a babe!
5) The first day of duck hunting season will be a holiday

If that doesn't get your vote....nothing will!
 
help4john said:
This is what Kerry will do to make things "better":

1) Higher tax rate
2) More government involvement
3) Military forces ridiculed and degraded
4) Theresa Heinz will be the first lady, what a babe!
5) The first day of duck hunting season will be a holiday

If that doesn't get your vote....nothing will!
none of these will help get hammys vote, anyone else?
 
He's right on the nose about 1, 2 and 4.

3 is only a mild exaggeration.


more taxes and more government is a summary of 20 years of Kerry in the Senate.
 
soooooo you dont see getting rid of the guy who got you into a war you didnt need, that cost a few hundred billion that you could have used for something else, who alienated your allies, and made your country far more hated than it was 4 years ago, as a good thing?

if i was there, i would be thinking, hm, look how badly he fucked it up in 4 years from a starting point of it being ok...imagine what he is going to do if he gets another term!

-stay in iraq at a cost of mere billions, and american blood
-probably bring in a draft
-patriot act? lol youre backing a guy who brought that fucking monstrosity in?
-continue to look like an utter douche on television, cementing overseas ideas taht americans really are morons

if its all about the benjamins, maybe you should think of it this way:

bush - low tax - spends it on iraq and wars - you have to pay for your own healthcare
kerry - higher tax - spends it on AMERICANS - you pay less for your essential services since more will be supplied to you

i cant fucking stand bush, do it for me, hammy :)
 
how could we be any WORSE off????????????? :rolleyes:


seriously..............B/T the two, i don't see that many clear cut differences. i think President Bush shuld be punished for lying to the American people about WMD's and dragging us into ANOTHER useless foreign war that will take years to play out.

for this, he should NOT be re-elected.
 
GoldenDelicious said:
soooooo you dont see getting rid of the guy who got you into a war you didnt need, that cost a few hundred billion that you could have used for something else, who alienated your allies, and made your country far more hated than it was 4 years ago, as a good thing?

if i was there, i would be thinking, hm, look how badly he fucked it up in 4 years from a starting point of it being ok...imagine what he is going to do if he gets another term!

-stay in iraq at a cost of mere billions, and american blood
-probably bring in a draft
-patriot act? lol youre backing a guy who brought that fucking monstrosity in?
-continue to look like an utter douche on television, cementing overseas ideas taht americans really are morons

if its all about the benjamins, maybe you should think of it this way:

bush - low tax - spends it on iraq and wars - you have to pay for your own healthcare
kerry - higher tax - spends it on AMERICANS - you pay less for your essential services since more will be supplied to you

i cant fucking stand bush, do it for me, hammy :)

for that post, I'll try and vote for Bush a fwe times.

It's Florida, so, I should be able to. :)
 
GoldenDelicious said:
soooooo you dont see getting rid of the guy who got you into a war you didnt need, that cost a few hundred billion that you could have used for something else, who alienated your allies, and made your country far more hated than it was 4 years ago, as a good thing?

if i was there, i would be thinking, hm, look how badly he fucked it up in 4 years from a starting point of it being ok...imagine what he is going to do if he gets another term!

-stay in iraq at a cost of mere billions, and american blood
-probably bring in a draft
-patriot act? lol youre backing a guy who brought that fucking monstrosity in?
-continue to look like an utter douche on television, cementing overseas ideas taht americans really are morons

if its all about the benjamins, maybe you should think of it this way:

bush - low tax - spends it on iraq and wars - you have to pay for your own healthcare
kerry - higher tax - spends it on AMERICANS - you pay less for your essential services since more will be supplied to you

i cant fucking stand bush, do it for me, hammy :)
i dont pay for my healthcare its included free at my job
tell me what essential services i will pay less for?
 
rnch said:
how could we be any WORSE off????????????? :rolleyes:


seriously..............B/T the two, i don't see that many clear cut differences. i think President Bush shuld be punished for lying to the American people about WMD's and dragging us into ANOTHER useless foreign war that will take years to play out.

for this, he should NOT be re-elected.
this is what i am TIRED OF, look im not pro bush or kerry, i am anti political. my question is HOW WILL I BE BETTER OF WITH KERRY is that too difficult to understand, no one yet has answered it
 
hamstershaver said:
this is what i am TIRED OF, look im not pro bush or kerry, i am anti political. my question is HOW WILL I BE BETTER OF WITH KERRY is that too difficult to understand, no one yet has answered it
You personally? It's hard to tell, because I dont know that much about you. To be perfectly honest, if you make over 200k, dont have any kids, and your healthcare is paid for, Kerry probably won't be better for you personally.
But that doesnt apply to the majority of people in this country, which is why I would say he is better for pres.
 
"Now what is Kerry gonna do to make things better for me?
Wodin you love him so much but all i really see you do is talk about is how bad Bush is, tell me whats going to be good with Kerry" Posted by Hamster



GoldenDelicious said:
soooooo you dont see getting rid of the guy who got you into a war you didnt need, that cost a few hundred billion that you could have used for something else, who alienated your allies, and made your country far more hated than it was 4 years ago, as a good thing?

if i was there, i would be thinking, hm, look how badly he fucked it up in 4 years from a starting point of it being ok...imagine what he is going to do if he gets another term!

-stay in iraq at a cost of mere billions, and american blood
-probably bring in a draft
-patriot act? lol youre backing a guy who brought that fucking monstrosity in?
-continue to look like an utter douche on television, cementing overseas ideas taht americans really are morons

if its all about the benjamins, maybe you should think of it this way:

bush - low tax - spends it on iraq and wars - you have to pay for your own healthcare
kerry - higher tax - spends it on AMERICANS - you pay less for your essential services since more will be supplied to you

i cant fucking stand bush, do it for me, hammy :)


Thank you for closing the argument. There is no reason. It is based purely on hatred for Bush, that’s all. Kerry gets blasted by Bush on every single issue. Bush is so far superior I can't believe leftists are even supporting their candidate. Must be why Zell Miller is supporting Bush amongst many others.
Democrats say we must talk about the issues that matter whenever we dispute Kerry's war record in Nam, yet all they can talk about are half assed stories that are based on very little fact. Such as the Moore movie, this new explosives thing and many others. John Kerry stands for nothing; he changes with the wind. Why do you think they must talk bad about Bush instead of supporting their own candidate? Because they don't know where he stands on the issues. They instead based their opinion on, "Oh he can speak better then Bush, so therefore he must be smarter, so I’ll take him as my candidate". Well that plus they are bleeding heart liberals. Ask each one of these “Bush Haters” on here who they voted for in the 2000 elections. No one hates Bush based purely on his presidency.

Bush is not going to bring back the draft. That is purely democratic fear mongering. Kerry will outspend Bush by 3 some trillions dollars over the next 10 years and not “raise taxes on the middle class”. Either he is lying there or America’s economy is going down. Kerry supported this war 100% going in and now he is trying to back out of it. Well, that actually depends on what day you talk to him, sometimes he’s for the war and sometimes he’s not, but before we went in he was. And yet Bush lied when Kerry said the exact same stuff based on the same information and didn’t. Please explain that one to me. Kerry is so full of holes they need to take the attention off of him in order to make him appear halfway decent, which is why they make up stories about Bush.

We were hated before we went to war but we have never looked like idiots or "douches". In the Clinton administration we threw off the idea terrorism against our country would not be dealt with, which if John Kerry would be president that policy would once again be reinstated but that’s beside the point. We have always been disliked. Our relationship with France has always been on the rocks. The only reason they helped us in the revolution was because we were fighting the British who they hated. I remember going into chat rooms after 9/11 and hearing shit like, "You guys deserved it" "America had it coming" "Finally you guys got yours, first big attack and I don't feel the least bit sorry, its about time". etc. etc. This is coming from the Germans, the French, some brits, and Canadians, amongst many others. We are not hated because of our president and his policy on terrorism. We have been hated around the world for hundreds of years. Kerry is not going to fix in 4 years or even 8. If the French and German governments see a weak president they are going to try and pull more shit which as of now they are afraid to. If Kerry won, God forbid, he'll bend America over and we'll get fucked.

I've got alot more to say but I've spent to much time on this already, I have to study.
 
jestros said:
You personally? It's hard to tell, because I dont know that much about you. To be perfectly honest, if you make over 200k, dont have any kids, and your healthcare is paid for, Kerry probably won't be better for you personally.
But that doesnt apply to the majority of people in this country, which is why I would say he is better for pres.
SO true!!!!
 
We are talking about the lesser of two evils here folks. It should be pretty obvious. Kerry is no savior, but at least he's not a lunatic, and that's good enough for me.
 
hamstershaver said:
i dont pay for my healthcare its included free at my job

It's not free. That's your money. If they weren't spending it on your health insurance, it would be available for higher salaries.
 
Mr. dB said:
It's not free. That's your money. If they weren't spending it on your health insurance, it would be available for higher salaries.


You realize the same logic applies to govt. health care right?
 
Mr. dB said:
It's not free. That's your money. If they weren't spending it on your health insurance, it would be available for higher salaries.
i know its hard to believe but at my job thats not the case
 
Mr. dB said:
It's not free. That's your money. If they weren't spending it on your health insurance, it would be available for higher salaries.

it's not "his money", it;s the corporation's money. The corporation produced it, created the wealth.

Your reasoning of "it's not free" is exactly why government healthcare is doomed. That really IS his money. Governments do not create wealth, they seize it and redistribute it.
 
For me it's very simple: Bush has floundered as President and is what I consider very dangerous in the oval office. I disagree on almost everything he has done. The only option to change our leadership is to vote for Kerry, so that's what I am doing.

I don't particularly like Kerry, but I dislike Bush even more, so even though I am a Republican I am voting Democrat next week.
 
boyz can marry boyz and girls can marry girls
and perhaps then boyz can marry multiple girls
then I'll import a couple from eastern europe and russia,add in a couple from southeast asia,and two more from south america
 
4everhung said:
boyz can marry boyz and girls can marry girls
and perhaps then boyz can marry multiple girls
then I'll import a couple from eastern europe and russia,add in a couple from southeast asia,and two more from south america

Neither one supports gay marriage.
 
hamstershaver said:
cmon wodin im dissapointed in you, just tell me what kerry is going to do to make it better
Personally I like the 5k Tax credit on college tuition per year. That'd be sweet!!!!

I'm a grad school junky.
 
hamstershaver said:
i dont pay for my healthcare its included free at my job
tell me what essential services i will pay less for?
mr. shaver, money is not limitless. your government takes it from everybody who works, and spends it (ideally) to improve the country/society as a whole. clear?

now, tell me, do you think that your 300 billion dollars, which has been spent blowing shit up in iraq so far, was a good investment, or do you think that perhaps more money for schools/roads/infrastructure would have been a better thing to spend it on?

you dont have to be a genius to realise that money spent in america benefits americans. more people go to school, progress happens faster, technological advancements happen faster, quality of life improves for everyone.

its not rocket science. your money is literally going up in smoke half a world away.
 
GoldenDelicious said:
mr. shaver, money is not limitless. your government takes it from everybody who works, and spends it (ideally) to improve the country/society as a whole. clear?

now, tell me, do you think that your 300 billion dollars, which has been spent blowing shit up in iraq so far, was a good investment, or do you think that perhaps more money for schools/roads/infrastructure would have been a better thing to spend it on?

you dont have to be a genius to realise that money spent in america benefits americans. more people go to school, progress happens faster, technological advancements happen faster, quality of life improves for everyone.

its not rocket science. your money is literally going up in smoke half a world away.
that didnt answer my question at all
 
piece of mind that some f*ck up wont be starting anymore crusades, bringing his own faith into a system that should be free of bullshit.

Kerry and more government....yeah right, every single republican president has expanded the government, EVERY SINGLE one. Yet they stand behind the idea of limiting government? hypocrisy at its finest.

More social programs probably, but the US is fucked up, why shouldnt the government do something about education, poverty etc? Oh wait, we got these fucken towel heads that need to be democratized. Who cares if they werent the ones that attacked us in 9/11, they're all the same anyway.

Bush, if reinstated, will not have to worry about re-election, so basically he can do whatever the f*ck he wants.
 
Hamster,

Didn't you hear? Kerry promises that hot women (other than your SO/family?friends) give free blow-jobs. New law.

Is that what you want to hear?

But seriously - you shouldn't need anyone on RF to convince you who to vote for. Don't vote at all.
 
metzen said:
Thank you for closing the argument. There is no reason. It is based purely on hatred for Bush, that’s all.
well actually there is a reason, and that reason is that your president has failed miserably in his task. he was meant to guide america legislatively/economically etc and make life better, but really, all i have seen out of the bush camp is a series of collossal fuckups.

my choice would be based on the exclusion principle. vote for bush? fuck, i dont think he manages to piss without getting it on his shoes. NO way in hell should that guy be able to control my life. then theres that nader guy. well, lets be honest...he aint winning shit. so, that leaves kerry.

why is kerry better than bush? because he hasnt fucked up. he might fuck up, which sucks, but bush will fuck up, which sucks more.

clear enough?

metzen said:
Kerry gets blasted by Bush on every single issue. Bush is so far superior I can't believe leftists are even supporting their candidate. Must be why Zell Miller is supporting Bush amongst many others.
which is why bush got molested during the 3 presidential debates.

metzen said:
Democrats say we must talk about the issues that matter whenever we dispute Kerry's war record in Nam, yet all they can talk about are half assed stories that are based on very little fact. Such as the Moore movie, this new explosives thing and many others. John Kerry stands for nothing; he changes with the wind. Why do you think they must talk bad about Bush instead of supporting their own candidate? Because they don't know where he stands on the issues. They instead based their opinion on, "Oh he can speak better then Bush, so therefore he must be smarter, so I’ll take him as my candidate". Well that plus they are bleeding heart liberals. Ask each one of these “Bush Haters” on here who they voted for in the 2000 elections. No one hates Bush based purely on his presidency.
because the average american (and youre not average, obviously) is stupid, and its easier to talk about what a fuckup bush is, than it is to talk about why kerrys views are more useful for america.

somteimes i think some of you chimps would be confused by a bunch of people chanting "bush, bad, kerry, good" :rolleyes:

metzen said:
Bush is not going to bring back the draft. That is purely democratic fear mongering.
youre right. he just wanted the legislation in place, just in case. let me simplify it for you, using a line from one of the garbage movies used to pacify you and foster your present level of stupidity: "you dont put on a condom unless youre going to fuck". clear?

metzen said:
Kerry will outspend Bush by 3 some trillions dollars over the next 10 years and not “raise taxes on the middle class”. Either he is lying there or America’s economy is going down.
uh, spend it on what? bush spent 300 billion on killing people you guys had no business killing, and you love him. what do you think kerry is going to spend the money on? party poppers? balloons? if he actually is going to spend this supposed money (and you arent full of crap) then i daresay itll be on something better than blowing up a bunch of people living in another country, for no good reason.

metzen said:
Kerry supported this war 100% going in and now he is trying to back out of it. Well, that actually depends on what day you talk to him, sometimes he’s for the war and sometimes he’s not, but before we went in he was. And yet Bush lied when Kerry said the exact same stuff based on the same information and didn’t. Please explain that one to me. Kerry is so full of holes they need to take the attention off of him in order to make him appear halfway decent, which is why they make up stories about Bush.
metzen, please dont drink and post, its almost as dangerous as the vehicular equivalent (in terms of stupidity, anyway)
this whole kerry flip flop spin is weak, weak, weak. "he changed his mind on this issue" "he changed him mind on that issue" pfffffft fuck me drunk, bush totally FUBARED everything, how much convincing do you need?

"hi, my names george w bush, i took the nation to war for nothing, killed 1000 soldiers, wounded 7000, killed 100,000 iraqi civilians (all of whose families wont want retribution, im sure) spent 300 billion dollars on nothing, brought in the patriot act which essentially makes all you citizens my slaves, alienated my allies, turned world opinion against the usa, but hey, dont vote for kerry, because you dont know what he stands for"

if i had to choose between a wild card and a guy whose name is synonymous with the word "fuck up", id choose the wildcard. please.

metzen said:
We were hated before we went to war but we have never looked like idiots or "douches".We are not hated because of our president and his policy on terrorism. We have been hated around the world for hundreds of years. Kerry is not going to fix in 4 years or even 8.
look at it the other way. kerry mightnt fix it, but bush will make it worse.

metzen said:
I've got alot more to say but I've spent to much time on this already, I have to study.
first thing youve said that i agree with :)
 
Hammy, it really doesn't matter who you vote for. What people forget is that the president is a puppet. It is not like he has absolute control over the entire country. He can't just do shit because he wants to. You could put anyone, literally anyone in the office and shit is going to end up the same way. Bush's only downfall is the fact that he is a really shitty public speaker. He has no skills in this department. Other than that, he is no different from Kerry or anyone else.
 
GoldenDelicious said:
well actually there is a reason, and that reason is that your president has failed miserably in his task. he was meant to guide america legislatively/economically etc and make life better, but really, all i have seen out of the bush camp is a series of collossal fuckups.

my choice would be based on the exclusion principle. vote for bush? fuck, i dont think he manages to piss without getting it on his shoes. NO way in hell should that guy be able to control my life. then theres that nader guy. well, lets be honest...he aint winning shit. so, that leaves kerry.

why is kerry better than bush? because he hasnt fucked up. he might fuck up, which sucks, but bush will fuck up, which sucks more.

clear enough?


which is why bush got molested during the 3 presidential debates.

because the average american (and youre not average, obviously) is stupid, and its easier to talk about what a fuckup bush is, than it is to talk about why kerrys views are more useful for america.

somteimes i think some of you chimps would be confused by a bunch of people chanting "bush, bad, kerry, good" :rolleyes:


youre right. he just wanted the legislation in place, just in case. let me simplify it for you, using a line from one of the garbage movies used to pacify you and foster your present level of stupidity: "you dont put on a condom unless youre going to fuck". clear?


uh, spend it on what? bush spent 300 billion on killing people you guys had no business killing, and you love him. what do you think kerry is going to spend the money on? party poppers? balloons? if he actually is going to spend this supposed money (and you arent full of crap) then i daresay itll be on something better than blowing up a bunch of people living in another country, for no good reason.

metzen, please dont drink and post, its almost as dangerous as the vehicular equivalent (in terms of stupidity, anyway)
this whole kerry flip flop spin is weak, weak, weak. "he changed his mind on this issue" "he changed him mind on that issue" pfffffft fuck me drunk, bush totally FUBARED everything, how much convincing do you need?

"hi, my names george w bush, i took the nation to war for nothing, killed 1000 soldiers, wounded 7000, killed 100,000 iraqi civilians (all of whose families wont want retribution, im sure) spent 300 billion dollars on nothing, brought in the patriot act which essentially makes all you citizens my slaves, alienated my allies, turned world opinion against the usa, but hey, dont vote for kerry, because you dont know what he stands for"

if i had to choose between a wild card and a guy whose name is synonymous with the word "fuck up", id choose the wildcard. please.

look at it the other way. kerry mightnt fix it, but bush will make it worse.

first thing youve said that i agree with :)

Lol @ you. Please list the fuckups. And don't give me the same old shit that is everywhere.

Look at Kerry's voting record then tell me of a single accomplisment he has made. He hasn't fucked up?

He went to war and accomplished nothing? Damn we really do live in the Microwave nation. But of course human life is only important if its American.....

Please tell how we are in such bad shape.
 
gab9681 said:
Hammy, it really doesn't matter who you vote for. What people forget is that the president is a puppet. It is not like he has absolute control over the entire country. He can't just do shit because he wants to. You could put anyone, literally anyone in the office and shit is going to end up the same way. Bush's only downfall is the fact that he is a really shitty public speaker. He has no skills in this department. Other than that, he is no different from Kerry or anyone else.
your probably right
 
UA_Iron said:
More social programs probably, but the US is fucked up, why shouldnt the government do something about education, poverty etc?

Typical post from a college kid who earns little if any money.

Sheep.

I've created 100 jobs, I send millions of dollars to DC annually personally and via business...it never gets better.

You're still in school, you don't know any better....wake the fuck up.
 
GoldenDelicious said:
mr. shaver, money is not limitless. your government takes it from everybody who works, and spends it (ideally) to improve the country/society as a whole. clear?

spoken like a true welfare stater. :)

now, tell me, do you think that your 300 billion dollars, which has been spent blowing shit up in iraq so far, was a good investment, or do you think that perhaps more money for schools/roads/infrastructure would have been a better thing to spend it on?

The ONLY place that money would have made a difference is in the US private sector, which, unsurprisingly, you are not and have never advocated. Another $300B in the hands of the US government, spent inefficiently, is effectively wasted.

What social program has the government "gotten right"? Which one has not become a leviathan of waste?

The "it is better spent in America" line is the same bullshit as the criticism of the space program in the 80s.

you dont have to be a genius to realise that money spent in america benefits americans. more people go to school, progress happens faster, technological advancements happen faster, quality of life improves for everyone.

its not rocket science. your money is literally going up in smoke half a world away.

The money spent in iraq is going largely to American corporations and their Ameriocan employees who spend it HERE.

In a global economy, money never goes up in smoke - even if it is given to Iraqis, (which it is not) it is spent on consumer goods as Iraq's private sector strengthens. (by all accounts, it is strengthening).

These consumer goods are, like ours, largely imported, from Asian countries. As ti so happens, Asian countries own a shitload of US debt, meaning that the same dollars are re-invested here, since Asian debt holders need our (America's) GDP to continue to grow so that the debt can be serviced.

And so on.

I know it is hard for the welfare staters and Bush haters to grasp, but there is a sophisticated plan in place. There are strategic goals, and they are being accomplished. Even the weak dollar is part of it.

The charge that "the money is better spent in America" is just plain wrong, unless it is returned to the taxpayers directly. Money never goes "up in smoke"; it's fungible.

As usual, invincible ignorance rules the day. From almost all of you.
 
MattTheSkywalker said:
spoken like a true welfare stater. :)



The ONLY place that money would have made a difference is in the US private sector, which, unsurprisingly, you are not and have never advocated. Another $300B in the hands of the US government, spent inefficiently, is effectively wasted.

What social program has the government "gotten right"? Which one has not become a leviathan of waste?

The "it is better spent in America" line is the same bullshit as the criticism of the space program in the 80s.



The money spent in iraq is going largely to American corporations and their Ameriocan employees who spend it HERE.

In a global economy, money never goes up in smoke - even if it is given to Iraqis, (which it is not) it is spent on consumer goods as Iraq's private sector strengthens. (by all accounts, it is strengthening).

These consumer goods are, like ours, largely imported, from Asian countries. As ti so happens, Asian countries own a shitload of US debt, meaning that the same dollars are re-invested here, since Asian debt holders need our (America's) GDP to continue to grow so that the debt can be serviced.

And so on.

I know it is hard for the welfare staters and Bush haters to grasp, but there is a sophisticated plan in place. There are strategic goals, and they are being accomplished. Even the weak dollar is part of it.

The charge that "the money is better spent in America" is just plain wrong, unless it is returned to the taxpayers directly. Money never goes "up in smoke"; it's fungible.

As usual, invincible ignorance rules the day. From almost all of you.


Ahhh at last someone on here I can agree with. Money in the hands of the people does far better than in the hands of the goverment. I believe in making a person better themselves which in turn makes them more money, and supports the goverment that the democrats are so keen on giving money too. A country with a strong economy has a strong goverment and the only way to strengthen the economy is to let people keep their money and decide how to invest or spend it. That is the key reason the democratic way has never worked and never will.
 
metzen said:
Ahhh at last someone on here I can agree with. Money in the hands of the people does far better than in the hands of the goverment. I believe in making a person better themselves which in turn makes them more money, and supports the goverment that the democrats are so keen on giving money too. A country with a strong economy has a strong goverment and the only way to strengthen the economy is to let people keep their money and decide how to invest or spend it. That is the key reason the democratic way has never worked and never will.

Yes, the private sector is the economic engine, always has been, and always will be.

Kerry's campaign is just so dishonest; Bush's is too, to an extent, though not the same extent as Kerry's.

And Kerry is all about class warfare, American against Americans, hate the people you dream of being.

So destructive.

I really hope he doesn't win...not because Bush is so great, but because Kery will doom us.
 
MattTheSkywalker said:
Yes, the private sector is the economic engine, always has been, and always will be.

Kerry's campaign is just so dishonest; Bush's is too, to an extent, though not the same extent as Kerry's.

And Kerry is all about class warfare, American against Americans, hate the people you dream of being.

So destructive.

I really hope he doesn't win...not because Bush is so great, but because Kery will doom us.



Exellent post. I feel Kerry is all about politics and stands for nothing. Bush is one to, to an extent, but you have to in order to be in politics. However the key difference between the 2 is Bush stands for something and has morals while Kerry seems to change with the political tide which is why he would destroy this country. K to you
 
MattTheSkywalker said:
And Kerry is all about class warfare, American against Americans, hate the people you dream of being.
The only thing about Kerry that has scared me so far is that (my impression) he's about protectionism whereas Bush is a free-trader / outsourcer. Time waits on no man (or Prez), but it could wait a little longer if Kerry gets his way.
 
GoldenDelicious said:
well actually there is a reason, and that reason is that your president has failed miserably in his task. he was meant to guide america legislatively/economically etc and make life better, but really, all i have seen out of the bush camp is a series of collossal fuckups.

my choice would be based on the exclusion principle. vote for bush? fuck, i dont think he manages to piss without getting it on his shoes. NO way in hell should that guy be able to control my life. then theres that nader guy. well, lets be honest...he aint winning shit. so, that leaves kerry.

why is kerry better than bush? because he hasnt fucked up. he might fuck up, which sucks, but bush will fuck up, which sucks more.

clear enough?


which is why bush got molested during the 3 presidential debates.

because the average american (and youre not average, obviously) is stupid, and its easier to talk about what a fuckup bush is, than it is to talk about why kerrys views are more useful for america.

somteimes i think some of you chimps would be confused by a bunch of people chanting "bush, bad, kerry, good" :rolleyes:


youre right. he just wanted the legislation in place, just in case. let me simplify it for you, using a line from one of the garbage movies used to pacify you and foster your present level of stupidity: "you dont put on a condom unless youre going to fuck". clear?


uh, spend it on what? bush spent 300 billion on killing people you guys had no business killing, and you love him. what do you think kerry is going to spend the money on? party poppers? balloons? if he actually is going to spend this supposed money (and you arent full of crap) then i daresay itll be on something better than blowing up a bunch of people living in another country, for no good reason.

metzen, please dont drink and post, its almost as dangerous as the vehicular equivalent (in terms of stupidity, anyway)
this whole kerry flip flop spin is weak, weak, weak. "he changed his mind on this issue" "he changed him mind on that issue" pfffffft fuck me drunk, bush totally FUBARED everything, how much convincing do you need?

"hi, my names george w bush, i took the nation to war for nothing, killed 1000 soldiers, wounded 7000, killed 100,000 iraqi civilians (all of whose families wont want retribution, im sure) spent 300 billion dollars on nothing, brought in the patriot act which essentially makes all you citizens my slaves, alienated my allies, turned world opinion against the usa, but hey, dont vote for kerry, because you dont know what he stands for"

if i had to choose between a wild card and a guy whose name is synonymous with the word "fuck up", id choose the wildcard. please.

look at it the other way. kerry mightnt fix it, but bush will make it worse.

first thing youve said that i agree with :)


The lack of intelligence, illogical reasoning and the ignorance of the facts in this post astounds me. Please look into the patriot act. You obviously do not know what is in it but rather the spin. I was against it when I first heard of it and still believe in needs to be amended as it intrudes into privacy. The key idea behind it is to preemptively stop terrorist’s strikes and allow communication between the CIA, FBI, and the separate police departments. But you already knew that didn't you.... So when the terrorists struck the towers and we knew that it was going to happen we could have done nothing about it. Unless, of course, we had the exact day, time and just how it was going to happen. Justifiable reasoning to get a warrant includes all of that. Here is a little detailed segment of an easy to understand article.

"An [FBI] agent investigating the intelligence side of a terrorism case was barred from discussing the case with an agent across the hall who was working the criminal side of that same investigation. For instance, if a court-ordered criminal wiretap turned up intelligence information, the criminal investigator could not share that information with the intelligence investigator - he could not even suggest that the intelligence investigator should seek a wiretap to collect the information for himself." The Patriot Act was written to resolve these kinds of problems and provide law enforcement and intelligence agencies the new tools they need to fight a new adversary. Among other provisions, it streamlined the process for obtaining search warrants in multiple jurisdictions, making it easier to track suspects who are constantly on the move. And it raised criminal penalties for not only perpetrating, planning and otherwise abetting attacks, but also for hoaxes that can cause nearly as much economic damage".

Here’s the link for the full article.
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=13141799&BRD=1817&PAG=461&dept_id=222076&rfi=6

Please read it and maybe you can understand that the laws were outdated and were in dire need of changing.

But don't feel to bad, allot of democrats just believe what they hear without checking the facts. It’s really quite common amongst the liberals so I guess you fit right in.

I don't believe the patriot act is perfect and I believe in some cases its abused. But I do see the reason behind it and why it must be.

So you don't even know Kerry's plans for the country? Boy I sure thought you would because you seem ready to give your left nut to get this guy elected.

Here's a link to three different independent studies all saying the same thing. Please follow the links on the website if you don't believe what the site has to say.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1239540/posts

Basically Kerry will spend 3 dollars for every one he collects in higher taxes with the plan he lays out. You don't hear the media saying anything about that.... He may not be spending it on "balloons and party poppers" but he sure as hell isn't fixing the deficit.


Then here is a rebuttal against Kerry on just about everything he has attacked Bush on at home. All of them backed up with creditable sources, which you probably won't read.

http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-news/1219173/posts


The flip-flop is old republican propaganda? Well it may be a republican attack but it’s also the truth. Please explain this.


John Kerry Criticized The President For Realigning Our Troops.

"Finally, I want to say something about the plan that the President announced on Monday to withdraw 70,000 troops from Asia and Europe. Nobody wants to bring troops home more than those of us who have fought in foreign wars. But it needs to be done at the right time and in a sensible way. This is not that time or that way. Let's be clear. The President's vaguely stated plan does not strengthen our hand in the war on terror. It in no way relieves the strain on our overextended military personnel. It doesn't even begin until 2006, and it takes ten years to achieve." (Sen. John Kerry, Remarks At The Veterans Of Foreign Wars Convention, Cincinnati, OH, 8/18/04)

Kerry Is For Troop Realignment

In August 2004, Kerry Said: "I Think We Can Significantly Change The Deployment Of Troops, Not Just There But Elsewhere In The World. In The Korean Peninsula Perhaps, In Europe Perhaps." STEPHANOPOULOS: "Can you promise that American troops will be home by the end of your first term?" SENATOR JOHN F. KERRY: "I will have significant, enormous reduction in the level of troops. We will probably have a continued presence of some kind, certainly in the region. If the diplomacy that I believe can be put in place can work, I think we can significantly change the deployment of troops, not just there but elsewhere in the world. In the Korean peninsula perhaps, in Europe perhaps. There are great possibilities open to us. But this administration has had very little imagination, enormous sort of ideological fixation and, frankly, took its eye off the war against al Qaeda and the war on terror shifting it to Iraq at enormous cost to the American people and to the legitimacy of the war on terror." (John Kerry, ABC's "This Week," 8/1/04)

In a span of 2 weeks....

And here he does it in the debates
http://www.newsfly.org/kvsk.htm It’s done comically but all the same…..
Kerry's tax plan once again under attack. If you make fewer than 200,000 you taxes could very well still be raised. So much for standing up for the poor......


The final two presidential debates have given Americans a clear picture of John Kerry’s tax vision. It’s not pretty. For starters, Kerry’s statements and campaign manifesto undermine his pledge not to raise taxes on those who earn less than $200,000. This alone should warn voters that, for Kerry, tax hikes are not a last resort, but a first response.


In the St. Louis debate, Kerry replied to James Varner who asked him “to look directly into the camera and, using simple and unequivocal language,” pledge not to raise taxes on families who make less than $200,000 annually.

“Absolutely,” Kerry said. “Yes. Right into the camera. Yes. I am not going to raise taxes. I have a tax cut.”

Demonstrating yet again Kerry’s talent for self-contradiction, he added, “Now, for the people earning more than $200,000 a year, you’re going to see a rollback to the level we were at with Bill Clinton … ”

But, as veteran business journalist and Fox News contributor Stuart Varney reported on October 10, restoring the status-quo-Clinton will hurt taxpayers less affluent than those Kerry boasts are in his crosshairs.

Varney cited Johnkerry.com, which says that Kerry hopes to “restore the top two tax rates to their levels under President Clinton.”

“If you restore those top two tax levels,” Varney said, “lots of people who make well under $200,000 a year would, in fact, have their taxes raised under the John Kerry plan.”

For instance,

Varney calculates that for married couples filing jointly, the tax rate would rise from 33 to 35 percent above $178,651

For heads of households, the 33 percent rate would grow to 35 percent above $162,701

For married couples filing separately, the 35 percent rate increases to 39.6 percent above $159,550

Single filers would move from 33 to 35 percent above $146,751

And for married couples filing separately, the 33 percent rate would increase to 35 percent above $89,326.

Thanks to his words and website, Kerry’s week-old tax pledge already is ablaze. Americans who earn as little as $89,327 can expect federal tax hikes. This should surprise no one. Through his 20-year Senate career, Kerry has been one of the Tax Man’s best friends.

Kerry “voted to increase taxes 98 times. When they tried to reduce taxes, he voted against that 127 times,” said President Bush at Thursday’s Tempe, Arizona, debate. “He voted 277 times to waive the budget caps, which would have cost the taxpayers $4.2 trillion.”

While Kerry says he favors middle-class tax cuts, he skipped the Senate’s September 23 vote to extend family tax relief. It also is difficult to reconcile Kerry’s tax-reduction plans with his gilded expenditures.

Kerry proposes $2.2 trillion in new spending — including $700 billion for a 10-year catastrophic medical-payment program — plus kiddy health insurance, and more. Even squeezing those who earn $200,000 or more, President Bush argued, Kerry would generate $800 billion, at most. That leaves him $1.4 trillion short. Would you bet against paying part of that bill?

Even while denouncing Bush’s tax cuts, Kerry hypocritically enjoys them. As Club for Growth president Steve Moore explained in the Wall Street Journal on October 11, the Kerrys paid $704,227 in federal taxes on $5.51 million in income last year, a 12.8 percent effective tax rate. While typical middle-class families effectively paid 20 percent, the Bushes paid 30.4 percent. Had Kerry rejected Bush’s tax cuts and stuck with Clinton’s top rate, Moore estimates that Kerry would have paid $1.2 million in taxes, effectively 21.8 percent.

President Bush seeks re-election with sterling supply-side credentials. He has signed $1.9 trillion in tax relief, lowered the top rate from 39.6 to 35 percent and the bottom rate from 15 to 10 percent, and reduced levies in between. While his per-child tax credit and other targeted relief represent pro-family social engineering, these measures at least keep money in citizens’ pockets — and out of the Potomac.

Bush, alas, deserves brickbats on spending. If reelected, he should wield his untouched veto pen and draw a fiscally conservative path. Beyond national security, he should freeze spending, or at least tie it to inflation, rather than its 8.2 percent average annual ascent since 2001, as the Cato Institute calculates.

Nonetheless, Bush’s fiscal shortcomings pale beside those of John Kerry, a congenital spendaholic who yearns for higher taxes.

http://www.nationalreview.com/murdock/murdock200410150834.asp

Oops Kerry lied. Who's the liar again?
Have you even gone to Kerry's website and looked at his plan? He is not going to fix the deficit or win the war.

Ok, I’ll give you the first debate, the second I believe was even. However on the third Bush smashed Kerry.

Kerry won't release his grades from college but Bush has, I guess there is something to hide there. Bush also scored allot higher than Kerry on the military aptitude test. Kerry is just a better public speaker, that’s all.

Your lines of thinking
You support Kerry and you don’t know jack shit about him. I’m still waiting for a response to my earlier post…. Please don’t make political decisions and then spout shit without knowing the facts.

And please come up with something intelligent instead of just recycling insults you've heard from others.
 
Great job with the opinion papers. Now all someone has to do is post up Michael Moore's site and the Nation and we've got a hoe down.
 
MattTheSkywalker said:
spoken like a true welfare stater. :)



The ONLY place that money would have made a difference is in the US private sector, which, unsurprisingly, you are not and have never advocated. Another $300B in the hands of the US government, spent inefficiently, is effectively wasted.

What social program has the government "gotten right"? Which one has not become a leviathan of waste?

The "it is better spent in America" line is the same bullshit as the criticism of the space program in the 80s.



The money spent in iraq is going largely to American corporations and their Ameriocan employees who spend it HERE.

In a global economy, money never goes up in smoke - even if it is given to Iraqis, (which it is not) it is spent on consumer goods as Iraq's private sector strengthens. (by all accounts, it is strengthening).

These consumer goods are, like ours, largely imported, from Asian countries. As ti so happens, Asian countries own a shitload of US debt, meaning that the same dollars are re-invested here, since Asian debt holders need our (America's) GDP to continue to grow so that the debt can be serviced.

And so on.

I know it is hard for the welfare staters and Bush haters to grasp, but there is a sophisticated plan in place. There are strategic goals, and they are being accomplished. Even the weak dollar is part of it.

The charge that "the money is better spent in America" is just plain wrong, unless it is returned to the taxpayers directly. Money never goes "up in smoke"; it's fungible.

As usual, invincible ignorance rules the day. From almost all of you.

you mistake idealism for ignorance and naievety. i am quite aware that there is an agenda that is likely well on track, and the bloodloss in iraq (real and economic) has been factored into the equation, and deemed 'acceptable' in the long term.

most of the arguments i present on the forum in regards to this issue are superficial, and purposefully emotive - partly because im lazy and dont want to write 3000 words to get m a point i dont care about that much across, and also because i know that it would me mostly pointless to do so.

i will agree that i do favour welfare states, partly because i was born into one, and also because i have seen/been to other countries where a persons worth is parrallel to their net worth...and i find that sort of society intolerable. your present president, for example, is representative of the sort of substandard individual who can rise to prominence because of the financial feudalism you will inevitably get in purely capitalist economies. in my mind, the president of the united states should be an over achiever, not the reluctant, silver spoon mouthed almost-average that is presiding right now.

i was born into a middle class family (ok perhaps a tad more than that) but went to a public school, worked my ass off to achieve entry into university. i came into contact with private school kids, and knew right away taht i blew them away in terms of raw ability. it was a pattern i saw everytime you had a mix of private and public school undergrads. it disgusted me that these mental inferiors were so well placed because of their familial connections, and this was in australia, where a private school gives you better facilities and tutors, not the bought and sold backdoor passes that you would get in the US.

governments should be there to better the social collective, because people themselves are a resource to be used, and improved. when i say "spend the money at home" i dont mean increasing welfare payments so that grey america can buy extra lollipops for their grandkids, i mean using the money to fund and guide the private sector, and improve life for everybody.
 
Some of it may be opinion but that facts are the facts. Just because someone has an opinion about them doesn't make them change. The difference between the articles I've posted and Moore's stuff is mine are based on hard fact straight from Kerry's own tax plan while Moore tells outright lies based solely on circumstantial evidence that wouldn't hold up to anyone looking for the truth.
 
metzen said:
Lol @ you. Please list the fuckups. And don't give me the same old shit that is everywhere.

Look at Kerry's voting record then tell me of a single accomplisment he has made. He hasn't fucked up?

He went to war and accomplished nothing? Damn we really do live in the Microwave nation. But of course human life is only important if its American.....

Please tell how we are in such bad shape.
metzen, it must be nice to have such low expectations.

"please list the fuckups. and dont give me the same old shit taht is everywhere" indeed.

in my mind, even a few of the "same old shit" fuckups that you clearly dont care about is an offense worthy of precluding the president from reelection, and thats all there is to it, really.

your president lied to get you into a war that you didnt need. thats enough for me. its insulting to my intelligence. my president committing such things in my name is unforgivable.
 
MattTheSkywalker said:
The ONLY place that money would have made a difference is in the US private sector, which, unsurprisingly, you are not and have never advocated. Another $300B in the hands of the US government, spent inefficiently, is effectively wasted.


The biggest problem I have with Bush is his irresponsibility. He is spending money he does not have, and now we (the taxpayers) will have to pay it off. He has run his government on credit for the past 4 years, and like all credit you eventually have to pay it down. He is fiscally irresponsible, and I don't want to give him another 4 years to run our country further into the ground. Things may be improving now, but it won't last thanks to the quagmire Bush has gotten us into.

His lack of forward thinking is dangerous to our country, now more than ever. I don't know if Kerry can do any better, but I know what Bush can do and if I was CEO of the USofA Bush would have been fired years ago.
 
metzen said:
Some of it may be opinion but that facts are the facts. Just because someone has an opinion about them doesn't make them change. The difference between the articles I've posted and Moore's stuff is mine are based on hard fact straight from Kerry's own tax plan while Moore tells outright lies based solely on circumstantial evidence that wouldn't hold up to anyone looking for the truth.
True, but check the Nation's recent article about the 100 facts and 1 opinion about Bush.

Regarding Moore's stuff, not everythng is BS and most can withstand a deeper look.

Not trying to bust your balls though...
 
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EnderJE said:
True, but check the Nation's recent article about the 100 facts and 1 opinion about Bush.

Regarding Moore's stuff, not everythng is BS and most can withstand a deeper look.

Not trying to bust your balls through...

No Moore's stuff doesn't. For instance he says Bush took Afghanistan to put the oil pipe through. Well the plan Presidents Bush wrote up didn’t even go throughout Afghanistan but Moore won't inform you of that. Instead he makes it appear that Bush took the country solely for personal reasons using Bin Laden as an excuse. That’s just one thing, but the rest of the movie is just like it. I can’t believe you’re standing behind Moore’s stuff……
 
Forge said:
The biggest problem I have with Bush is his irresponsibility. He is spending money he does not have, and now we (the taxpayers) will have to pay it off. He has run his government on credit for the past 4 years, and like all credit you eventually have to pay it down. He is fiscally irresponsible, and I don't want to give him another 4 years to run our country further into the ground. Things may be improving now, but it won't last thanks to the quagmire Bush has gotten us into.

His lack of forward thinking is dangerous to our country, now more than ever. I don't know if Kerry can do any better, but I know what Bush can do and if I was CEO of the USofA Bush would have been fired years ago.

That is a fair criticism.

Kerry's plan of raising taxes will assuredly slow the economy; the top producers are the ones who create the jobs.

Do you want to tax and spend or borrow and spend, is the issue...
 
MattTheSkywalker said:
That is a fair criticism.

Kerry's plan of raising taxes will assuredly slow the economy; the top producers are the ones who create the jobs.

Do you want to tax and spend or borrow and spend, is the issue...


taxes were higher under clinton correct? was the economy slower back then?

I am not being a smartass, I just want to know.
 
UA_Iron said:
taxes were higher under clinton correct? was the economy slower back then?

I am not being a smartass, I just want to know.

Your thought process is merely identifying two events and basically assuming the existence of a connection. The economy of the 1990s would be considered by most indexes to have been stronger, yes.

I will try to explain briefly the engine behind the economy of the late 1990s.

In October 1994, the Internet was turned over to the private sector, by the government. The world wide web was qucikly established, and private industry took advantage of this new connectivity.

Shortly after that, the dot-com explosion happened. Trillions of dollars were invested in selling over the Internet: toys, pet food, etc. Most of them failed. However, the injection of all of this investment money into the market created a few things

(1) the stock market surged, meaning people had more money, more for retirement etc. They bought more houses, cars and all that good stuff. This helped the economy.

(2) Unemployment went very very low.

(3) IT salaries surged. People with minimal skills got hired at high salaries, as venture investors had no way to price the market for these jobs. These newly high income people bought all kinds of shit.

In summary, the economy was growing on all fronts. That's what usually happens when a few trillion dollars show up. :)

This was the principal, indeed the only, reason the economy was so good in the 1990s. it had little to do with Presidential polices, or taxes, though, with better legislation the economy could have been still stronger.

When this happened, the tax base grew. Governments had more tax revenue. new programs were budgeted for.

You often hear people talk about a "surplus" of several trillion dollars. That surplus was based on projections of growth continuing at the same spped it did from 1996-1999.

There is no surplus. there never was. It was a projected surplus, and the projections were incorrect; the dot com bubble burst and the economy staggered. It is not as if there was $5 trillion locked away somewhere. It was like being "rich on paper". That's all.

I didn;t think you were being a smart-ass. You'd have to be smart first. :)

Vote Bush.
 
metzen said:
No Moore's stuff doesn't. For instance he says Bush took Afghanistan to put the oil pipe through. Well the plan Presidents Bush wrote up didn?t even go throughout Afghanistan but Moore won't inform you of that. Instead he makes it appear that Bush took the country solely for personal reasons using Bin Laden as an excuse. That?s just one thing, but the rest of the movie is just like it. I can?t believe you?re standing behind Moore?s stuff??
If I didn't stand for Moore, then we wouldn't be having a fun conversation. I like Moore. He makes me laugh. Just like Fox news makes me laugh.

Regarding your points, tell you what, go to his site and find the errors and omissions.

While your at it, go to the Nation and do the same thing.
 
MattTheSkywalker said:
Shortly after that, the dot-com explosion happened. Trillions of dollars were invested in selling over the Internet: toys, pet food, etc. Most of them failed.
I thought that this was the best part of the 90s. I can still remember talking to one of my friends about the dot.com that he joined.

"What do you mean there's no business plan?!"

"Its the Internet, EJE. People will use it."

"Did you do your market research into your service?"

"No, too expensive."

"But, you thought the marble statue of your logo in your office was a good buy?"

"Yep, shows presence to investors."

Gawd, I miss that guy.
 
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