Dear Highest Good,

[mdpm99]

Dear Highest Good,

Make him our X president.

please, please, please.

Thank you.

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d.

Ps.

The following is EXCERPTED. I URGE YOU TO ACCESS IT AND READ THE ENTIRE HORRIFYING TRUE STORY.

d.

Exclusive Report: Tax Cut Impact
Working poor suffer under Bush tax cuts
Cash crunch: loss of services outweighs tax gains for millions.

By Melvin Claxton, and Ronald J. Hansen / The Detroit News

http://www.detnews.com/2004/specialr...a01-284666.htm

DETROIT The Bush administration and Congress have scaled back programs that aid the poor to help pay for $600 billion in tax breaks that went primarily to those who earn more than $288,800 a year.
To offset the loss of the tax revenue, the administration has amassed record federal deficits and trimmed social spending.
The affected programs job training, housing, higher education and an array of social services provide safety nets for the poor. Many programs are critical elements in welfare-to-work initiatives and were already badly underfunded.
A six-month Detroit News investigation showed that as a result of the withering government assistance, working poor and destitute Americans are increasingly likely to be placed on waiting lists for help, receive reduced services, or be denied service entirely.
To help pay for federal tax cuts, many programs that served the working poor were reduced or eliminated as the deficit grew. This report shows that the amount of money millions of Americans now pay to cover such expenses as child care, housing and college education is greater than the amount they saved through the tax cuts.
Hundreds of thousands of people across the nation who qualify for assistance are on waiting lists or get turned away when they apply for help with child care, meals and utility bills.
A housing program that replaces dilapidated buildings has been cut, rent subsidies frozen and a public housing crime prevention program eliminated, leaving thousands of poor living in squalor, unsafe conditions or homeless.
Even as the country lost jobs during the past two years, $600 million was cut from job-training programs designed to provide skills for the unskilled or unemployed. Federal financial aid grants have been frozen even as tuition has spiked at U.S. colleges.

[ October 22, 2004, 01:15 AM: Message edited by: david mancuso ]

[darrow]

Thanks for posting this.

Bush is yet another believer in the degrading fiscal approach once called trickle-down economics. Tax cuts for the rich will somehow stimulate the economy and the affects and benefits will be felt all the way down to the poverty line. Yeah right.

Whenever I hear the term trickle down economics, I can't help but picture a bunch of poor, ragged, thirsty people running around outside, looking up at the cloudy sky, mouths open, tongues poked out...waiting and hoping for a few drops of rain to fall.

[Tee Cee 13]

Greetings David,

Bush made all those cuts, with that amount of money that was cut was all that used for military purposes? Where did all that money go? [img]graemlins/conf44.gif[/img]

[C hristian]

i'm right down on my knees with you for this one David! I am SOOO NERVOUS these days!

[i.be.me]

GO RED SOX! err, I mean GO KERRY!

:D

[mdpm99]

Originally posted by darrow_v1.7:
Thanks for posting this.

Bush is yet another believer in the degrading fiscal approach once called trickle-down economics. Tax cuts for the rich will somehow stimulate the economy and the affects and benefits will be felt all the way down to the poverty line. Yeah right.

Whenever I hear the term trickle down economics, I can't help but picture a bunch of poor, ragged, thirsty people running around outside, looking up at the cloudy sky, mouths open, tongues poked out...waiting and hoping for a few drops of rain to fall.

Greetings darrow_v1.7 [img]smile.gif[/img]

...the trickle "up" (if one could call it that).

Have a great day!

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d.

[t.honey]

DEAR SPIRIT,

please take care of those who have not the strength to see the light over the horizon

thank you for giving americans a chance to
rise up against the way things are .. we are
saddened that it took such horrific acts of
corruption to awaken our apathetic eyes and
we now understand that voting does count .. it may be that a 100 progressive/heart votes may be needed to cancel out the votes that want to keep us in the hell of the past ... no more excuses .. my vote may count alot less but .. together ... we can create a revolution of our minds ... by speaking, marching, emailing, learning, becoming politicaly aware and active .. the revolution will not be televised it will take over the internet a place that was created to communicate while at war ... well we are at war .. with ourselves .. get up .. stand up ... vote with your children, neighbors, family, make it as normal and absulotely neccessary as christmas and new years eve .. for a new day .. a stronger day

we are fighting for our children and loved ones
so that they may know the freedom and possibility
of being a human being ... after all we are soul before citizen ...

[mdpm99]

Originally posted by TinaI:
DEAR SPIRIT,

please take care of those who have not the strength to see the light over the horizon

thank you for giving americans a chance to
rise up against the way things are .. we are
saddened that it took such horrific acts of
corruption to awaken our apathetic eyes and
we now understand that voting does count .. it may be that a 100 progressive/heart votes may be needed to cancel out the votes that want to keep us in the hell of the past ... no more excuses .. my vote may count alot less but .. together ... we can create a revolution of our minds ... by speaking, marching, emailing, learning, becoming politicaly aware and active .. the revolution will not be televised it will take over the internet a place that was created to communicate while at war ... well we are at war .. with ourselves .. get up .. stand up ... vote with your children, neighbors, family, make it as normal and absulotely neccessary as christmas and new years eve .. for a new day .. a stronger day

we are fighting for our children and loved ones
so that they may know the freedom and possibility
of being a human being ... after all we are soul before citizen ...

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d.