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April 15th, 2004 Luckytown USA; One hundred sixty eight million Americans file their taxes and prepare their wish lists on how to spend their $1,000 dollar tax cut Dubya promised. The truth is that the bottom 60-% of America’s taxpayers will receive less than $100 dollars and the top 1-% will get $96,624.00. Buy the way, Dubya and the missus got $30,858.00. Folks, here’s the best part, the 257,000 millionaires in America will split up between themselves $30,000,000,000.00 Seems as though April Fools Day was fifteen days late this year. Forty nine million Americans who work every day don’t have any health insurance. Most can’t afford it, many can’t qualify for it (The insurance companies know they are sick or have a better than average chance of becoming sick. They think you might use it, so they won’t write the policy). Dubya’s answer, GET A JOB! THINKING ABOUT RETIRING AFTER 30 YEARS? The California supermarket strike is over and ten’s of thousands go back to work. Dubya counts these as if they were new jobs created. Millions of folks would like to have a job and are looking everywhere for one. Their household budget was biased on what they made on the job they had worked at for years. It’s gone now, overseas, a merger, foreign imports, layoffs, labor disputes (replaced by scab labor). Now they can’t find a job for half what their old job paid so, they loose the house, the car, their credit cards, sometimes their spouse and bankruptcy is the only option. Guess what, these folks are NOT IN THE PICTURE ANYMORE, THEY DON’T COUNT THEM AFTER SIX MONTHS IN THE UNEMPLOYED! Fuzzy math, YOU BET! What is VOODOO ECONOMICS? The first Dubya said that this was what Ronald Reagan’s “Trickle Down Theory” was. Here we are in a JOBLESS RECOVERY based on the very same theory thanks to little Dubya. Was Dubya #1 right? Is Dubya #2 wrong? Does Dubya #2 know the answer? The answers are Yes, Yes, and NO. They say Democrats are tax and spend but numbers don’t lie. When Dubya took office the projected surplus for America was 5.6 Trillion Dollars from 2002 to 2011. Voodoo Economics changed all that. According the Congressional Budget Office report on January 1, 2004 we now have a 4.3 Trillion Dollar projected deficit from 2002 to 2011. In spite of the recession, worldwide turmoil, terrorist, gigantic trade deficits, and our many wars, there will be a 9.9 Trillion-dollar deterioration of our budget. That very same the Congressional Budget Office report on January 1, 2004 said that of the 9.9 Trillions Dollars, 40% was the results of Dubya’s Tax Cut for the rich. What would Dubya’s 30 Billion Dollar tax cut buy for America if it went to Americans. It would buy health care for everyone, an education for our children, jobs for our unemployed, prescription drugs for our elderly (The MEDISCAM BILL FOR THE DRUG COMPANYIES IS A SCAM!), or a home for the homeless. Only then can we have the peace of mind that our children and grandchildren will not have a 9.9 Trillion-Dollar Millstone around their neck. That’s how I look at it, Bob Jones
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