What will you do if Bush wins?

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Registered: 08-20-2004
What will you do if Bush wins?
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Fri, 08-20-2004 - 12:02pm
I would like to know what you all will do if Bush wins? I don't know if I can handle another 4 years. Any ideas of how to reclaim our country and restore democracy and freedom? I'm worried that another 4 years will increase the authoritariansm and absolute power that Bush has come to claim and further trample on our constitution and individual liberties. I'm truly frightened.

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Registered: 08-21-2004
Tue, 08-31-2004 - 1:43pm
Dear Irish Eyes:

For starters, you shoot your own credibility in the foot by admitting you lied and tried to spin the truth when it comes to job creation. Secondly, your facts are all wrong at almost every step of the way.

1. Fact...we have 1.2 million fewer jobs now than when Bush took office. Cannot dispute that reality. You can not refute either the fact that said negative job creation numbers are the worst of a president in SEVENTY FIVE YEARS!

2. The fact that corporate bottom lines are better off due to downsizing of the American work force, and out sourcing of our industrial/manufacturing base to offshore countries offering a cheaper labor pool does not a good economy make. Furhter more, what appeared to be a turning of the corner early this year has died out, and all the figures being release in the last three months show a STAGNANT economy. Again, you cannot refute that fact, or those governmental figures.

3. Fact, the stock market has been FLAT since Bush took office, again one of the worse market trends since the Great Depression.

4. Fact, more middle class Americans have slid into poverty during President Bush's term in office than any other time in history since the Great Depression.

I could go on, and could further dispell the myths you try to pass off in facts in your post, but I can tell by your post that you are not willing to intellectually listen and debate facts, but instead want to rant, jump up and down and ignore the reality I am placing right in front of you to see. I did not make up the fact that our troops right now are defacto under the control of the Iraqi Interim Government, I pulled that bit of information off of the Reuters site. I did not make up my statistics, I pulled them right out of reports released by our Federal Government. The fact that you might not like to hear what I have to say does not negate the truthfulness of it.

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Registered: 06-17-2004
Tue, 08-31-2004 - 1:55pm
Welcome deco2000!

Renee ~~~

Renee ~~~

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Registered: 04-18-2004
Tue, 08-31-2004 - 2:07pm

I think both candidates stink, and wish we had better ones.

Miffy - Co-CL For The Politics Today Board

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Registered: 06-17-2004
Tue, 08-31-2004 - 2:09pm

Renee ~~~

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Registered: 08-31-2004
Tue, 08-31-2004 - 2:23pm
There are pros and cons to both candidates and parties to be sure. But maybe the question shouldn't be "What do I do if Bush wins?" or "What do I do if Kerry wins?" but simply: "What do I do?"

If you don't like Bush's policies or Kerry's policies or the way things are now, instead of sitting around and worrying and complaining about them, get out there and do something. Whatever your passion or concern: Health care, civil liberties, education...get out there and do something. Volunteer, educate yourself and others, protest, praise, write to your local, state and federal leaders...take action.

Should the outcome of the election effect what "you're going to do?"

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Registered: 04-18-2004
Tue, 08-31-2004 - 2:25pm

Hello scarletscorpio!


Welcome to the board!

Miffy - Co-CL For The Politics Today Board

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Registered: 08-21-2004
Tue, 08-31-2004 - 2:28pm
Do I wish we had other horses in the field as it were...absolutely. However, we live in a world now where Democracy to a large degree is a sham, politicians long bought and paid months if not years before we have our chance to give them a yea or nay at the ballot box.

Watching millionaires and Billionaires buying their way into a political office has become commonplace, New York City's Mayor Bloomberg a perfect example there of.

In day to day life, probably would not want either canidate coming over to my house to break bread, as neither of them seem to embrace and hold near and dear those things I seek to find in people I wish to call friend. But, we have to make choices, and weighing the two men, weighing their positions, looking at the path we have been traveling down these past four years, I in being truthful to my heart and soul cannot and would not vote for George Bush.

Thanks for the gratitude in regards to my service.

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Registered: 04-18-2004
Tue, 08-31-2004 - 2:35pm

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Exactly, and looking at John Kerry and what he has said and done during his career and life, I cannot and would not vote for him.

Miffy - Co-CL For The Politics Today Board

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Tue, 08-31-2004 - 2:40pm
never watched the guy...never make assumptions
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Registered: 06-17-2004
Tue, 08-31-2004 - 2:48pm

Decreasing personal income tax does not reduce jobs. There is no linkage.


Which corporate taxes did Bush cut?


Renee ~~~

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