  Here is a list of issues you can find at the urlLink Democrat website which they put forth as their talking-points against the current administration. I took a look at their issues and I come up with the same thing as always; does anybody really pay attention to the facts and the issues anymore? By this I include both majors, btw, but in this episode just the Dems. This, I think, is the consequence of dumbing-down the issues for people.
Why do we allow our politicians to make like we're extra-dumb every 4 years? The democrat titles are bulleted. My replies follow. • The Bush 2005 Budget: A Deficit Disaster The dems lead off with a home run. No question about it. This is the great stinking mess in the republican closet. But the argument they present here is strictly quotes from urlLink Cato and urlLink The Heritage Foundation . As if the democrats can't come up with reasons against deficits on their own I suppose - they have to use conservative think tanks to make their argument? But hold on - this use will be important later. Of course it may be because they were just as surprised about the budget surpluses under President Clinton as anyone. I mean - are the democrats any better at fiscal conservatism than the current republican bunch? Ya think? • Bush Tax Cuts Help the Rich Get Richer There's been ample data showing this to be a ridiculous claim based on the class war mentality of the democrats. An entire new tax bracket (10%) was created by the Bush administration, lowering 40,000,000 people out of the 15% tax bracket. The average family bringing in something like $40,000 a year before taxes is now keeping an extra $1000+.
Of course they miss the real problem - or don't have the wit to mention it because their policies over the last 40 years make them just as complicit - but the REAL concern about this is related to the above issue; read this from the urlLink Brookings Institute ; "tax cuts are not simply a matter of returning unneeded or unused funds to taxpayers, but rather a choice to require other, future taxpayers to cover the long-term deficit, which the tax cut significantly exacerbates.
" Meaning... when you build deficits and lower the revenue you are taking a gamble. It is a calculated gamble in that if the economy does start to fly higher because of it all the revenues increase you made it ok - but if it doesn't, you blew it. Theoretically you should make it - that's stricty supply side. But the deal is - you are shooting crap with it to some degree. It is a matter of timing. Anyway point being the democrats missed the issue altogether to pander their usual whine.
• The Bush Record on Manufacturing Jobs This is a real funny one because they cite data collected by people who were shown to be insane or something by a review of their work in urlLink this article . An excerpt reads; "Unfortunately, it looks as though indefensible assertions about the supposed long-term disappearance of U.S. manufacturing are going to become a familiar political complaint over the coming year (as well as a promising source of special interest campaign funds). This rerun of the old "downsizing" story will again bore us with many more efforts by bumbling business writers and their slumbering editors to trump up some sort of "public agitation.
" If the rhetoric gets too annoying, ask the authors for a few facts. They just hate that. Indeed - what the democrats present here is just a complete bald faced lie. And one wonders how they can use the folks at Cato for part of their argument (on deficits) but forget this part. Well... no... one doesn't really wonder... • The Bush Record on Labor An extension of the above, this is basically a complaint about the diminishing role of trade unions and organized labor.
Doesn't say anything about the union head's enforcing affinity on their rank and file for democrat contributions though. I think the real record of abuse of "labor" comes from the left. They're the ones with a vested interest in their being a permanent working-class. How else do they maintain a voting base? • Health Care Costs Skyrocket Under Bush What bothers me about this is its disingenuous. The real issue here is they are still sniping about the Clintons' health plan being scuttled a few years ago. But two thing I never hear mentioned is if healthcare costs went up without a tax-supported plan, what the hell difference would it have made if we pay more now or pay more first as the money was taken on the front end through taxes to support the plan?
Hello?? Besides which, nobody has bothered to show how a policy from the White House DIRECTLY made health costs go up. This is like sour grapes or something. • Another Bush Ripoff: Health Savings Accounts Democrats use a code language that encompasses Health Savings Accounts, Personal Social Security Accounts and School Vouchers. To them, the real thing that bothers them about privatizing certain aspects of the government is they'll have their bureaucrat cronies losing jobs to independent investment advisors - who are usually republicans.
Don't fool yourself - this is why they're opposed to these kinds of plans and for no other reason. • The Bush Record on Energy This is one that rankles me. They block exploration in the western hemisphere and then moan about not enough self-reliance. They moan about an over-spent budget but they want to throw millions into research projects for wind turbine cars and such. Don't even get me started... • The Hazards of Halliburton This amounts to a poitical cheap shot. But to be honest, both web sites have their own little cheap shot sections, but what differentiates the democrats is they've elevated theirs to POLICY. man... i gotta get a life... urlLink MORE… 
