On Wed, 6 Oct 2004, Matthew Carpenter wrote: > Net Llama! wrote: > > >> Clinton spends 77 billion on war in Serbia - good... Bush spends 87 > >> billion > >> in Iraq - bad... > > > > > > I'm not clear on how either is good or bad. Its the results that count. > > > And what result would that be? Are you speaking of the hundreds of > schools and hospitals reopened and many towns with never-before clean > water? Or the one woman from and undisclosed location whose TV quote > spoke for the whole nation (with no context) in saying "it is worse than > before". Most of us know that the TV Big-3 have a serious liberal bent, > reproved by the Bush military Word documents.
Serbia seems a hell of a lot more stable than Iraq these days. Serbia never had an average of 80+ roadside bombings/day. > >> Clinton refuses to take custody of Bin Laden - good... World Trade > >> Centers > >> fall under Bush - bad... > > > > > > http://www.9-11commission.gov/ > > > What is the point of that link? It points to the 9/11 commission site > as of September 20th. It's a pretty big site, would you care to explain > or make a more specific link? The 9/11 commission found equal blame for both the Clinton & Bush adminstrations. That was widely reported in most news oulets. Perhaps Fox News chose to ignore that tidbit in favor of more fabricated Kerry interviews. > >> Every year an independent tax watchdog group analyzes the average tax > >> burden > >> > >> on Americans, and then calculates the "Tax Freedom Day". This is the day > >> after which the money you earn goes to you, not the government. > >> > >> This year, tax freedom day was April 11th. That's the earliest it has > >> been > >> since 1991. It's latest day ever was May 2nd, which occurred in > >> 2000. Notice > >> anything special about those dates? > > > > > > Yea, because Bush put the country back into debt to provide that date. > > Let's see how long it takes to climb back out of that debt. > > > Again, numbers please? http://www.thedesertsun.com/news/stories2004/business/20041005211409.shtml http://www.mlive.com/news/kzgazette/index.ssf?/base/columns-1/1096989871119400.xml http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=503674 http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/10/05/politics/main647510.shtml > >> Recently, John Kerry gave a speech in which he claimed Americans are > >> actually > >> paying more taxes under Bush, despite the tax cuts. He gave no > >> explanation > >> and provided no data for this claim. > > > > > > I'm paying higher taxes now than i was 4 years ago. And no, i don't > > mean just more taxes, I mean a higher tax rate. And even if my salary > > was identical to what it was 4 years ago, I'd still be paying more. > > > Numbers? Source? Please tell me that you're not asking to know what my income is. Sorry, but that's none of your damn business. You can either choose to believe me, or not. > >> Bush paid $250,000 in taxes this year; Kerry paid $90,000. Does that > >> sound > >> right? The man who wants to raise your taxes obviously has figured > >> out a way to avoid paying his own. > > > > > > And its Kerry's fault that his accountants are smarter than Bush's? > > > > > Given the democratic way of getting away with whatever they can, yes. Right, and Bush & Co aren't trying to hide anything. http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2004/09/05/us_lawyers_say_secret_court_could_hear_patriot_act_challenges/ http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/politics/9847808.htm?1c -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo http://netllama.ipfox.com _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsub/Pause/Etc -> http://mail.linux-sxs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/general
