---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment In a message dated 10/29/04 4:23:09 PM Eastern Daylight Time, sarah@graphic-fusion.com writes: Larry, >I wouldn't put a lot of money on that if I were you. We already have lots of money riding on it, whether we like it or not! This conflict in Iraq has cost every citizen nearly $1000 in DOD expenditures and lots more money in fuel costs. Another four years will cost us much more. And where do you close *your* purse strings in defending the country, Sarah? Meanwhile, the stock market crash, following from widespread corporate fraud, such as committed by Cheney's Enron, has sapped the more fiscally responsible people of their hard-earned savings and their old age security. Stock market crash? That's a new one. Cheney had nothing to do with Enron either. This is what happens when one soaks their brain in liberal hogwash - they can't keep all the talking points straight. The stock market hasn't crashed, Sarah. The latest figures on our economy shows 3.7% growth rate, strong consumer spending and the lowest inflation rate in decades. Gross domestic product was up 3.3% in the second quarter. The proposed tax cuts that will go mostly to the wealthy will create a revenue shortfall that must eventually be reconciled. Who will eventually pay the piper? See above. Over 2 million jobs have been created, replacing the jobs lost from the technology bubble that burst losing so many jobs, which had nothing to do with Bush. Recently over 320 of the nation's top economists signed onto a report saying the tax cuts are behind the boom in the economy. No one ever taxed their way out of debt, Sarah. The only way the deficit has *ever* been reduced has been through tax cuts which moved the economy to growth. Deficits are reduced by generating more tax, but you generate more tax by stimulating the economy, not by penalizing it. History proves this to be the case, you don't have to take my word for it. I suspect it will be the little guy, who will have to suffer deep cuts in Social Security and Medicare, into which he/she has invested a lifetime of payments. Meanwhile, corporate America will have reaped most of the savings. This is yet another hidden way that tax cuts can be used to screw the lower and middle classes, while duping them into thinkiing they've gotten something for nothing. Again, you connect two dots that have nothing to do with each other. Corporate America does not run the Social Security program. No offense, but if you're going to discuss issues such as this, at least take the time to learn about them, and how they function. So yes, we all have a LOT of money on the line -- tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars for most common folks. Peace, Sarah And if you end up wearing a burkha, and we all are forced to bow toward Mecca, what price limit will you put on getting out of *that* little mess? ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/a7/9d/75/55/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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