His 'education' focus has changed to High Schools, gangs and increasing Pell Grants. They are all great ideas, but, where are the tax increases?
Oh, wait, the funding must be coming from $2 trillion dollar windfall on SSI Reform.
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Rhetoric about the USA '...has the strongest economy in the world.'
Yep, this is it the embellishment of lies.
"We must add to these achievements ... and we will keep America the economic leader of the world."
Exchange Rate of One USA Dollar to Euros in 2004.
August 1.21914 USD (22 days average)
September 1.2224 USD (21 days average)
October 1.25074 USD (20 days average)
November 1.29945 USD (19 days average)
December 1.34065 USD (23 days average)
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Bush pressed 'Clear Skies' - It's insufficient and I would love to hear what Christy Whitman has to say about it.
Is Bush talking about an effective energy program that replaces 'fossil fuels?'
LIKE the 'Clear Skies' of Britian perhaps. Clear Skies, funded by DTI and managed by BRE, aims to give householders and communities a chance to realise the benefits of renewable energy by providing grants and access to sources of advice. Householders can obtain grants between £400 to £5000 whilst not-for-profit community organisations can receive up to £100,000 for grants.
http://www.clear-skies.org/Introduction.aspx
THAT opposed to Bush's "Clear Skies"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/opinion/tolestom/?name=Toles&date=20050131
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Social Security Reform
Not on my watch !!
This is a good beginning...
https://www.cato.org/events/ssconf05/register.html
... as long it is not funded by a Bush grant or organized by a paid journalist.
I suppose there has to be some effort to 'save' Social Security but I am not convinced that is so. Now is a good time to explore that possibility, but, to jump into $2 trillion debt when all Bush has done is promise to reduce the deficit by 50%, RATHER THAN A DOLLAR figure, by the year 2010 is irresponsible. But, to date nothing this administration has done is responsible. If Bush is to resolve the deficit he has to raise taxes. He mentioned nothing about raising taxes.
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Bush coins the 'Cult of Life' from religious leaders. He doesn't mind killing large numbers of people for the sake of oil though. 100 Iraqis dead for every USA soldier killed. The number in Iraq wounded, maimed is significant. The USA sustains 15,000 soldiers disabled.
"Culture of Life"
Overcoming Disabilities = Double the funding of the NIH. "Not to take advantage of one life to enhance others...no embryos will be produced for genetic..." Actor Fox sees embryonic research in action
http://www.madison.com/tct/news/index.php?ntid=2 [...]
Wisconsin Stem Cell Research Battle Heats Up With Michael J. Fox Visit by Steven Ertelt February 2, 2005 Madison, WI (LifeNews.com) -- Actor Michael J. Fox visited a stem cell research facility in Wisconsin Tuesday, drawing attention to a plan by Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle to spend $750 million on the controversial research. Meanwhile, Wisconsin Right to Life is working overtime to educate legislators and the public about the ethics involved and effectiveness of adult versus embryonic stem cells.
http://www.lifenews.com/bio671.html
Michael J. Fox looks at research his foundation funds Michael J. Fox said it was high time he stopped by to "kick the tires" on the research institution putting to use more than $1 million of his foundation's money.
http://www.madison.com/wsj/home/local/index.php?ntid=26885&ntpid=1
Missouri Lawmakers Holding Hearing on Human Cloning Ban Bill by Steven Ertelt February 1, 2005 Jefferson City, MO (LifeNews.com) -- Missouri lawmakers held the first of two hearings Monday night on a bill that would ban all forms of human cloning in Missouri. Pro-life groups support the measure because it would also prohibit cloning used in research.
http://www.lifenews.com/bio665.html
Connecticut Lawmakers Weigh Bill to Spend $20M on Stem Cell Research by Steven Ertelt February 1, 2005 Hartford, CT (LifeNews.com) -- Spending money on stem cell research is a great idea, pro-life advocates in Connecticut say. But, they're opposing a bill to use $20 million on the controversial research because some of the money will fund studies that involve the destruction of human life.
http://www.lifenews.com/bio666.html
BUSH'S statement is already defeated. More "Pro Life" grandstanding. He has decided to stop at 'embryonic stem cells' rather than a promise about abortion he can't and morally should not keep.
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Promoting war by stating
"A No Fear Agenda"
"...defeat the dangers of our time." Bush is a danger of our time.
Bush uses the Politics of Fear to maintain his support, by reclaiming the word 'fear' he attempts to mask his own use of it. I believe when he mentioned this issue he projected it onto women in a characterization of a young girl. He is a predator of the fears of women. When those fears are rational or irrational. It is an abuse of women emotionally.
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"Replace Hatred with Hope"
"Is the force of human freedom"
Here we go with Zarqawi again. "
Ending tyranny in our world."
Does that include every monarchy in the Middle East? Because. IF it does. That includes nearly every country in the Middle East. "Community of Independant Nations...that answer to their people..." He is talking about Global War against every country that does not practice democracy. Bush doesn't even answer to the people of his own country. He victimizes them.
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Israel and Palestine Peace is within reach...
...AND AMERICA IS NOT NEEDED to achieve that goal. Egypt, Jordan expected to declare return of envoys By Aluf Benn and Amos Harel, Haaretz Correspondents, and Agencies Jordan and Egypt are expected to announce the return of their ambassadors to Israel at an upcoming summit hosted by Egyptian President Husni Mubarak, official sources in Jerusalem said Wednesday.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/534966.html
BUSH and Rice are a day late and DOLLARS short.
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Bush's Declaration of War on Iran
Iran...
...he just declared war. He is promising liberty to Iran without regard to International Order.
This is from the "Iran Daily"
It sounds like a solution to me.
ElBaradei Challenges Leaders To Beef Up NPT
LONDON, Feb. 2--The chief UN nuclear inspector challenged world leaders Wednesday to show the political will to beef up the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty at an upcoming international conference. Writing in the Financial Times newspaper, Mohammed ElBaradei, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, set out a number of steps to enhance the NPT without having to rewrite it, AFP reported. The NPT prohibits the transfer of nuclear weapons and the technology to make them, between the 188 nations which have put their names to the treaty since 1968. Signatory nations include the five main nuclear powers--Britain, France, China, Russia and the United States--but not emerging nuclear states India, Pakistan or Israel, while North Korea pulled out of the NPT in 2003.
http://www.iran-daily.com/1383/2206/html/
THIS IS THE ONLY answer the world needs to pursue. Bush is peddling momentum for war. My, my, Cheney must be all about the Caspian lately.
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''We are not abandoning .... Freedom in Iraq will make the USA safer for generations."
Didn't Iraq have elections?
Is Bush actually saying Iraq WAS/IS a threat to the USA?
He is compounding his lies then.
Bush didn't mention Tsunami Aid.
I wonder why?
Clinton U.N.'s Tsunami Envoy http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/02/02/world/m [...] (AP) Former U.S. President Bill Clinton became the U.N. point man for post-tsunami reconstruction as Australia's leader headed Wednesday to Indonesia's battered region of Aceh for a first-hand glimpse of the disaster.
