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Edited on Sun Aug-01-04 08:36 PM by NightTrain
<<The Rich are Rich because of skills and merit!>>
George W. Bush was born on third base and thinks he hit a triple.
<<Welfare Reform is a success!>>
Is that why the average age of a homeless American is nine?
<<The Poor? They should just get a better job!>>
What jobs? Ten million of them have disappeared under Bush/Cheney!
<<Right to Work is better than Collective Bargaining because Unions are corrupt!>>
I'll tell Ken Lay you said that.
<<Income mobility negates Income Inequality!>>
So, the 3% raise I get each year at my $9-an-hour job negates the CEO that makes 400 times what his lowest-paid worker gets?
<<Deregulation promotes Competition thus it's a good thing!>>
Is that why three conglomerates now own about 90% of all the TV and radio stations, publishing houses, magazines and newspapers in the United States? It wasn't that way 20 years ago!
<<Privatized Government services almost always works better!>>
Is that why my homestate of Connecticut had to shut down its automobile emissions program because the private company that ran it fucked things up so badly?
<<Economic Growth is always good!>>
Depends on your definition of "economic growth."
<<Intelligent Design is a science!>>
I've never heard that one, so unfortunately I don't know how to reply to it. Frankly, I don't even know what "Intelligent Design" is! :shrug:
<<Anyone can succeed in America!>>
Technically, that's true. But it's a lot easier for somebody like George W. Bush to "succeed" than it is for some kid who was born in an economically depressed area, has an absentee father and an alcoholic mother, and whose schools are substandard.
<<Liberal Media!>>
Limbaugh, Hannity, Coulter, O'Reilly, Novak, Ingraham, Carlson, Miller, Malkin, Liddy, North, Charen, Scarborough, Noonan, Savage, Goldberg, Gigot, Krauthammer...!
<<Taxes are really THEFT!>>
Then you'd better tell the post office to stop delivering your mail. And you'd better stop using the roads and sidewalks. And you'd better toss out your library card. And don't expect the Public Works Department to plow your street during the next snowstorm. And you'd better put up an outhouse in your backyard so you don't have to use that paid-for-by-theft sewer system....
<<The US of A has the best medical care system in the world!>>
Those 36 million Americans with no health-care coverage will certainly be glad to hear it!
<<Vouchers will improve poor schools!>>
No, MONEY will improve poor schools. It always has and always will.
<<Racism is passe, it's been defeated, we should all just compete like the US is a color-blind society!>>
Must be why as recently as 1998, an African-American in Texas was tied to the back of a pick-up truck and dragged to his death--because racism is passe.
<<Give a helping hand, not a hand out!>>
And what have YOU done to help those less fortunate than you, Mr. Conservative?
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