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athelind ([personal profile] athelind) wrote2004-07-26 10:14 pm

Cards On The Table

I'm gonna lay it all right out here:

After all that's been said and done, all the things they've inflicted on America, the American people, and the world, anyone who supports the Bush "Administration" falls into one of these categories:
  1. Stupid
  2. Delusional
  3. Corrupt

[identity profile] paka.livejournal.com 2004-07-27 10:03 am (UTC)(link)
Nothing against you personally, but do you know how absolutely frustrating it is to grow up in rural Georgia, which is sort of the ideal GWB seems to seek out?

Do you know how absolutely frustrating it is to be in a country where;

1. Your leaders - theoretically a democratic government responsive to your input as a citizen - decide to drag your country into war despite overwhelming international and domestic disapproval - including protests that you personally participated in?

2. Your leaders, intentionally or no, underestimate the cost of said war? Traditionally, the definition of conservative included asking the important question, "well, that's nice, but how are we going to pay for it?"

3. Your leaders are caught with their pants down, having apparently planned to use an unrelated event as the launching point for a first strike war, and having intentionally or unintentionally lied before the UN, God, and the world, in order to start one?

4. Your leaders use the capture of a widely-hated enemy to cover for returning a contract to a company known to be ripping of our own military, for offering up public lands for detruction, and perhaps many other things?

5. Your leaders are on record as saying that neo-pagan traditions are not valid religions, and have supported a Constitutional Ammendment actively barring a proposed right for Queers? Who have instigated faith-based initiatives that mysteriously have funded no Jewish nor Moslem organizations? And seem quite bent on pushing a very specific brand of religious agenda?

And I could go on, but my point is, being an American citizen is really frustrating right now. I beg you to please, please reconsider your support for our current Administration.

[identity profile] pathia.livejournal.com 2004-07-27 10:18 am (UTC)(link)
I've grown up in rural Virginia, not entirely that different.

As has been said by others, I suppose I'd qualify for reason 2.

Despite the fact that even I will admit much of what you said is at least partially true if not fully. I still believe Kerry would be even worse for this country than this Bush.

[identity profile] kynn.livejournal.com 2004-07-27 11:07 am (UTC)(link)
Why? What would Kerry do?

--Kynn

[identity profile] pathia.livejournal.com 2004-07-27 11:11 am (UTC)(link)
I would lose the current minimum wage job that I have. The fellow was only able to expand his hiring because of the Bush tax-cuts, which Kerry has said he will repeal.
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[personal profile] richardf8 2004-07-27 07:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Actually, unless your boss is quite wealthy, it is unlikely that his tax-cuts would be repealed under Kerry.

[identity profile] pathia.livejournal.com 2004-07-27 07:45 pm (UTC)(link)
He is quite rich and the business is a sole proprietorship, the tax cuts are the very reason he hired me.

As I do have a degree in economics, he now and then has me look over things and pays a consultant's fee. I can't really say much beyond that, as it is a private company other than I'm pretty sure he's speaking the truth unless he's cooking the books outside my knowledge.

If the tax-cuts go away, it's much more economical for him to just lock his money away from the into his overseas investments.

[identity profile] kynn.livejournal.com 2004-07-27 08:45 pm (UTC)(link)
So he got a big tax break and used it to create a bunch of shitty jobs below a living wage with no health care.

Yeah, that sounds like what Bush intended.

You really don't see how much you're getting assraped, do you?

--Kynn

[identity profile] tombfyre.livejournal.com 2004-07-27 10:24 am (UTC)(link)
Every day that all this crap has been going on, I've honestly felt sorry for you american folk caught in the middle. Isn't it your duty and right to rise up against a corrupt govt?

I've honestly been wondering lately when us folk north of your borders are going to see a second revolution.

[identity profile] araquan.livejournal.com 2004-07-27 10:39 am (UTC)(link)
Give it time. It's becoming more clear that NEITHER major party has the best interests (or even necessarily the selfish desires) of the general public in mind- you vote more for which special interests you want ruining your life than for the best representative anymore. But in the event there's any attempt to hold up elections in November... I think you'll see things come to a head pretty fast.