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Six
Major Reasons
Why We Must Fight Four More Years
(Information taken from MoveOn.Org)
- It appears that the
Bush Administration has consistently
misled the American public about
Iraq, most significantly regarding
Saddam Hussein's possession of weapons
of mass destruction and his ties
to al Queda and Osama bin Laden.
More recently, the failure of Secratery
of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to address
abuse of Iraqi detainees has generated
international outrage, threatening
to further destabilize the region
and prolong fighting.
- 2. The Bush Administration's
regressive environmental policies
have lowered cleanliness standards
for our air and water while allowing
utility companies (many of whom
are Bush campaign contributors)
to profit off of the weakened regulations.
In 2002, the head of the EPA's Office
of Regulatory Enforcement resigned,
complaining that the agency was
“fighting a White House that
seems determined to weaken the rules
we are trying to enforce."
(CNN, Aug. 22, 2002)
The
Bush Record on the Environment for
2004
- Bush is under funding
education. The President cut $200
million from his own No Child Left
Behind Act, eliminating crucial
educational programs for lower income
children and cutting professional
training for more than 20,000 teachers.
Flawed from its very foundation,
No Child Left Behind is based on
then-Governor Bush's late-‘90s
“Texas Miracle,”—a
program of standardized testing
designed to increase performance
and reduce dropout rates--now recognized
as a scandalous failure. More
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- The Bush Administration's
Patriot Act threatens our constitutional
rights and civil liberties. Passed
by a post 9/11 Congress, the Patriot
act expands the ability of law enforcement
to conduct secret searches, and
engage various forms of surveillance,
including internet monitoring and
wiretapping. It gives the FBI access
to American citizens' highly personal
medical, financial, mental health,
and student records without notification
or permission, and allows them to
investigate individuals without
probable cause of a crime. Finally,
it permits non-citizens to be jailed
based on mere suspicion and held
indefinitely in six month increments
without meaningful judicial review.
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- Bush's Tax Cuts
only benefit the rich. Bush claimed
that his tax cut would “reduce
tax rates for everyone who pays
income tax.” He failed to
mention that this “relief”
program would put half of the tax
cut's dividends into the hands of
our nation's wealthiest 5%, while
8.1 million citizens in the bottom
half of the income bracket receive
approximately $300 a year. Reducing
tax revenues while doubling the
growth rate of federal spending
has caused the federal budget deficit
to balloon to a projected $4 trillion
over the next 10 years.
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- 3.3 million
jobs (93,000 in August of 2003 alone)
have been lost since Bush took office--more
than the last 11 Presidents combined.
(Bureau of Labor Statistics, June
2001-August 2003) Bush is likely
to be the first president since
Herbert Hoover to show a net loss
of jobs at the end of his first
term. Meanwhile, huge corporations
are paying fewer taxes than ever.
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