--- The Fool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > <http://www.misleader.org> > A daily chonicle of W's distortions and lies.
I found the commentary on the domestic portion of the State of The Union Address...grim: http://www.misleader.org/in_the_spotlight/ "...His "first goal," he said, is "an economy that grows fast enough to employ every man and woman who seeks job," but his own economic advisors project that his economic plan - if everything goes well - will create fewer jobs this year than were lost in the last. In fact, George Bush is the first president since Herbert Hoover to preside over an economy that has lost jobs, not created them - more than 2.9 million lost since 2001. "In selling his tax breaks, the president was at his most disingenuous. "This tax relief is for everyone who pays income taxes�Ninety-two million Americans will keep this year an average of almost $1,100 more of their own money." This is a perfect example of the old caution about "lies, damn lies and statistics." As Citizens for Tax Justice reported, 80% of Americans get less than the president's "average." More than half of all taxpayers get less than $100. Almost a third get nothing at all. Millionaires will enjoy tax breaks averaging $90,000 a year, while middle income Americans will pocket an average of $256. Together they make up the president's "average." ..." "...On environmental issues, the president became simply Orwellian in his inversion of the truth. "I have sent you Clear Skies legislation that mandates a 70 percent cut in air pollution from power plants over the next 15 years," he declared to applause. In fact, his plan does nothing to regulate carbon emissions, allows 50% more sulfur emissions and five times more mercury emissions than enforcement of current law. Compared to alternative legislation developed by the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Resources Defense Council estimates that the Bush "clear skies" legislation will result in 100,000 additional premature deaths by 2020. "Similarly, his "healthy forests" initiative used the recognized need to clear out flammable underbrush as an excuse for giving timber companies the writ to cut down wide swaths of protected forest..." I don't know about that figure for premature deaths, but there are plenty of studies that link air pollution to both morbidity and mortality; I posted quite a few not too long ago. That "Healthy Forests Initiative" is as oxymoronic as they come -- cutting down hundreds-of-years-old sequioias (sp!) and redwoods will only increase the logging companies profits. Debbi GSV Disgusted __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
