A Guy I Know Challenges My Anti W Slogan, Want to help with a response??

[WLKjr]

"Four more years of what???"


This is the email I got:

It's hard to tell where to start with the many inaccuracies and misconseptions within that page.


First, current economy status - Clinton, media, stupidity. Mostly Clinton though.


Poverty, Poverty? In this country, almost 80% of people living in poverty have at least two cars. between 60 and 70% have a vcr and color tv. at least half have DVD players. The majority have at least one car. Need I go on? - our definition of poverty is hundreds of times higeher that that of wealth in most nations.


While democrats mention jobs lost, the compoind stats, don't take into acount many variables (including temporary seasional and global issues) and completly ignore the record-setting job returns thanks to bush policy.


Oh, and he did double education spending.


But I blabber on, so I'll stop here for now.


And as for 4 more years of what, if you would like a long list, let me know.


-rhe Rev.



I am so going to send an ENORMOUS EMAIL BACK TO THIS FUCKING BUSHBOT, anyone want to contribute links, Facts to my soon to be huge couple of mb email?

[NMDemDist2]

1. a picture's worth a thousand words

[mikehiggins]

2. What a waste of bandwidth

Just send him a polite "go fuck yourself" and save yourself the effort. There is NO talking to these people, NO pursuading, NO educating. Spend the time you'd spend on your email and use it to do phone banking for the local Democratic Party.

Some people just don't get it.

[WLKjr]

6. I am giving the philisopical FUCK OFF

[Cronus Protagonist]

3. Here ya go - Bush's first year's accomplishments

STATE OF THE PRESIDENT
In George W. Bush's First year in office he:
1. Significantly eased field-testing controls of genetically engineered crops. 2. Cut federal spending on libraries by $39 million. 3. Cut $35 million in funding for doctors to get advanced pediatric training. 4. Cut by 50% funding for research into renewable energy sources. 5. Revoked rules that reduced the acceptable levels of arsenic in drinking water. 6. Blocked rules that would require federal agencies to offer bilingual assistance to non-English speaking persons. This, from a candidate who would readily fire-up his Spanish-speaking skills in front of would-be Hispanic voters. 7. Proposed to eliminate new marine protections for the Channel Islands and the coral reefs of northwest Hawaii (San Francisco Chronicle, April 6, 2001). 8. Cut funding by 28% for research into cleaner, more efficient cars and trucks. 9. Suspended rules that would have strengthened the government's ability to deny contracts to companies that violated workplace safety, environmental and other federal laws. 10. OK'd Interior Department appointee Gale Norton to send out letters to state officials soliciting suggestions for opening up national monuments for oil and gas drilling, coal mining, and logging. 11. Appointed John Negroponte - an un-indicted high-level Iran Contra figure-to the post of United Nations Ambassador. 12. Abandoned a campaign pledge to invest $100 million for rain forest conservation. 13. Reduced by 86% the Community Access Program for public hospitals, clinics and providers of care for people without insurance. 14. Rescinded a proposal to increase public access to information about the potential consequences resulting from chemical plant accidents. 15. Suspended rules that would require hard rock miners to clean up sites on Western public lands. 16. Cut $60 million from a Boy's and Girl's Clubs of America program for public housing. 17. Proposed to eliminate a federal program, designed and successfully used in Seattle, to help communities prepare for natural disasters. 18. Pulled out of the 1997 Kyoto Treaty global warming agreement. 19. Cut $200 million of work force training for dislocated workers. 20. Eliminated funding for the Wetlands Reserve Program, which encourages farmers to maintain wetlands habitat on their property. 21. Cut program to provide childcare to low-income families as they move from welfare to work. 22. Cut a program that provided prescription contraceptive coverage to federal employees (though it still pays for Viagra). 23. Cut $700 million in capital funds for repairs in public housing. 24. Appointed Otto Reich - an un-indicted high-level Iran Contra figure - to Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs. 25. Cut Environmental Protection Agency budget by $500 million. 26. Proposed to curtail the ability of groups to sue in order to get an animal placed on the Endangered Species List. 27. Rescinded the rule that mandated increased energy-saving efficiency regulations for central air conditioners and heat pumps. 28. Repealed workplace ergonomic rules designed to improve worker health and safety. 29. Abandoned campaign pledge to regulate carbon dioxide, the waste gas that contributes to global warming. 30. Banned federal aid to international family planning programs that offer abortion counseling with other independent funds. 31. Closed White House Office for Women's Health Initiatives and Outreach. 32. Nominated David Lauriski - ex-mining company executive - to post of Assistant Secretary of Labor for Mine Safety and Health. 33. OK'd Interior Secretary Gale Norton to go forth with a controversial plan to auction oil and gas development tracts off the coast of eastern Florida. 34. Announced intention to open up Montana's Lewis and Clark National Forest to oil and drilling. 35. Proposes to re-draw boundaries of nation's monuments, which would technically allow oil and gas drilling "outside" of national monuments. 36. Gutted White House AIDS Office. 37. Renegotiating free trade agreement with Jordan to eliminate workers' rights and safeguards for the environment. 38. Will no longer seek guidance from The American Bar Association in recommendations for the federal judiciary appointments. 39. Appointed recycling foe Lynn Scarlett as Undersecretary of the Interior. 40. Took steps to abolish the White House Council on Environmental Quality. 41. Cut the Community Oriented Policing Services program. 42. Allowed Interior Secretary Gale Norton to shelve citizen-led grizzly bear reintroduction plan scheduled for Idaho and Montana wilderness. 43. Continues to hold up federal funding for stem cell research projects. 44. Makes sure convicted misdemeanor drug users cannot get financial aid for college, though convicted murderers can. 45. Refused to fund continued cleanup of uranium-slag heap in Utah. 46. Refused to fund continued litigation of the government's tobacco company lawsuit. 47. Proposed a $2 trillion tax cut, of which 43% will go to the wealthiest 1% of Americans. 48. Signed a bill making it harder for poor and middle-class Americans to file for bankruptcy, even in the case of daunting medical bills. 49. Appointed a Vice President quoted as saying "If you want to do something about carbon dioxide emissions, then you ought to build nuclear power plants." (Vice President Dick Cheney on "Meet the Press.") 50. Appointed Diana "There is no gender gap in pay" Roth to the Council of Economic Advisers. (Boston Globe, March 28, 2001.) 51. Appointed Kay Cole James - an opponent of affirmative action - to direct the Office of Personnel Management. 52. Cut $15.7 million earmarked for states to investigate cases of child abuse and neglect. 53. Helped kill a law designed to make it tougher for teenagers to get credit cards. 54. Proposed elimination of the "Reading is Fundamental" program that gives free books to poor children. 55. Is pushing for development of small nuclear arm to attack deeply buried targets and weapons, which would violate the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. 56. Proposes to nominate Jeffrey Sutton - attorney responsible for the recent case weakening the Americans with Disabilities Act- to federal appeals court judgeship. 57. Proposes to reverse regulation protecting 60 million acres of national forest from logging and road building. 58. Eliminated funding for the "We the People" education program which taught School children about the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and citizenship. 59. Appointed John Bolton - who opposes nonproliferation treaties and the U.N. - to Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security. 60. Nominated Linda Fisher - an executive with Monsanto - for the number-two job at the Environmental Protection Agency. 61. Nominated Michael McConnell - leading critic of the separation of church and state - to a federal judgeship. 62. Nominated Terrence Boyle - ardent opponent of civil rights - to a federal judgeship. 63. Canceled 2004 deadline for automakers to develop prototype high mileage cars. 64. Nominated Harvey Pitts - lawyer for teen sex video distributor - to head SEC. 65. Nominated John Walters - strong opponent of prison drug treatment programs - for Drug Czar. (Washington Post, May 16, 2001.) 66. Nominated J. Steven Giles - an oil and coal lobbyist - for Deputy Secretary of the Interior. 67. Nominated Bennett Raley - who advocates repealing the Endangered Species Act - for Assistant Secretary for Water and Science 68. Is seeking the dismissal of class-action lawsuit filed in the U. S. against Japan by Asian women forced to work as sex slaves during WWII. 69. Earmarked $4 million in new federal grant money for HIV and drug abuse prevention programs to go only to religious groups and not secular equivalents. 70. Reduced by 40% the Low Income Home Assistance Program for low-income individuals who need assistance paying energy bills. 71. Nominated Ted Olson - who has repeatedly lied about his involvement with the Scaiffe-funded "Arkansas Project" to bring down Bill Clinton - for Solicitor General. 72. Proposes to ease permit process - including environmental considerations - for refinery, nuclear and hydroelectric dam construction. (Washington Post, May 18, 2001.) 73. Proposes to give government the authority to take private property through eminent domain for power lines and gas pipelines. 74. Proposes that $1.2 billion in funding for alternative renewable energy come from selling oil and gas lease tracts in the Alaska National Wildlife Reserve. 75. Plans on serving genetically engineered foods at all official government functions. 76. Forced out Forest Service chief Mike Dombeck and appointed a timber industry lobbyist as his replacement. 77. He refused to release the Reagan papers 78. He refused to release his own Governor papers - they had to threaten legal action in Texas to get them released 79. He refused to release Cheney meeting notes - now it's gone to the courts 80. His tax bill favors corporations, wealthy minority - not the common person 81. He's pulling every political trick in the book - so much for being a Washington outsider 82. He has an illegal shadow government, and hides behind executive privilege. 83. He lied about knowing Ken Lay, the CEO of ENRON. 84. He directed the FBI to “back off” their investigation of the bin Laden family. 85. He pledged $43 million to the Taliban less than six months before 9/11 86. He reneged on a campaign promise to prohibit storage of additional radioactive waste at the Yucca Mountain facility. 87. He promised $20 billion to assist New York City with cleanup, relief and rebuilding efforts, and later shorted the city by $9 Billion. 88. He pledged to get bin Laden “Dead or alive,” and failed.

[WLKjr]

4. That is what I am talking about

Thanks for that huge ass list. :D

[in_cog_ni_to]

8. Here's more.

Accomplishments of President George W. Bush:

I spent the U.S. surplus and effectively bankrupted the U.S. Treasury.

I shattered the record for the largest annual deficit in U.S. history.

I set an economic record for most private bankruptcies filed in any
12-month
period.

I set the all-time record for the biggest drop in the history of the U.S.
stock market.

I am the first president in U.S. history to enter office with a criminal
record.

I set the all-time record for most days on vacation in any one year
period.

After taking-off the entire month of August 2001, I then presided over the
worst security failure in U.S. history.

I attacked and overtook two countries, promised to rebuild them and have
not
yet done so.

I am supporting development of a "Tactical Bunker Buster" nuke, a WMD.

I am getting our troops killed, under the lie of WMD components, then
blaming the lie on our British friends and the CIA, where, coincidentally,
my daddy used to lead.

I set the record for most campaign fund-raising trips by a U.S. president.

In my first year in office over 2-million Americans lost their jobs and
that
trend continues every month, leaving us in higher than ever unemployment.

I set the all-time record for most foreclosures in a 12-month period.

I appointed more convicted criminals to administration than any president
in
U.S. history.

I set the record for least amount of press conferences than any president
since the advent of television.

I signed more laws and executive orders effectively amending or ignoring
the
Constitution than any president in history.

I presided over the biggest energy crisis in U.S. history and refused to
intervene when corruption involving the oil industry was revealed.

I presided over the highest gasoline prices in U.S. history and refused to
use national reserves as past presidents have done.

I have cut health care benefits for war veterans and support a cut in duty
benefits for active duty troops and their families -- in war time.

I allowed non-compete oil contracts to go to my VP's company (where he is
still employed, but on "deferred compensation") and won't answer to anyone
about it.

I have set the all-time record for most people worldwide to simultaneously
protest me in public venues (15 million people) shattering the record for
protest against any person in the history of humankind.

I've dissolved more international treaties than any president in U.S.
history.

I've made my presidency the most secretive and unaccountable of any in
U.S.
history.

I'm proud that the members of my cabinet are the richest of any
administration in U.S. history. My "poorest millionaire," Condoleeza Rice,
has a Chevron oil tanker named after her.

I am the first president in U.S. history to have almost all 50 states

of the Union simultaneously suffer massive financial crisis.

I presided over the biggest corporate stock market fraud of any market in
any country in history.

I am the first president in U.S. history to order a pre-emptive attack and
the military occupation of a sovereign nation, and I did so against the
will
of the United Nations and the world community.

I created the largest governmental department bureaucracy in the history
of
the United States.

I set the all-time record for biggest annual budget spending increases,
more
than any president in history.

I am the first president in U.S. history to have the United Nations remove
the U.S. from the Human Rights Commission.

I am the first president in U.S. history to have the United Nations remove
the U.S. from the Elections Monitoring Board.

I removed more checks and balances, and have the least amount of
congressional oversight, than any presidential administration in U.S.
history.

I rendered the entire United Nations viewpoints irrelevant.

I withdrew the U.S. from the World Court of Law.

I refused to allow inspectors access to U.S. "prisoners of war"
(detainees)
and thereby have refused to abide by the Geneva Convention.

I am the first president in history to refuse United Nations election
inspectors (during the 2002 U.S. election).

I am the all-time U.S. and world record-holder for receiving the most
corporate campaign donations.

My largest lifetime campaign contributor, and one of my best friends,
(Kenneth Lay, former CEO of Enron Corporation) presided over the largest
corporate bankruptcy fraud in U.S. history. My political party used the
Enron private jets and corporate attorneys to assure my success with the
U.S. Supreme Court during my 2000 election decision.

I have spent more money on polls and focus groups than any president in
U.S.
history.

I garnered the most sympathy for the U.S. after the World Trade Center
attacks and less than a year later made the U.S. the most resented country
in the world, possibly the largest failure of diplomacy in world history.

I am actively working on a policy of "disengagement" creating the most
hostile of Israel-Palestine relations in at least 30 years.

I am the first to have a majority of Europeans (71%) view my presidency as
the biggest threat to world peace and security.

I am the first president in history to have the people of South Korea more
threatened by the U.S. than by their immediate neighbor, North Korea.

I changed U.S. policy to allow convicted criminals to be awarded
government
contracts.

I set an all-time record for the number of administration appointees who
violated U.S. law by not selling their huge personal investments in
corporations bidding for U.S. contracts.

I failed to fulfill my pledge to capture Osama Bin Laden, dead or alive.

I failed to capture Saddam Hussein.

My family is very close with the Saudi Royal family, and have been for
years, so I kept the pages out of the report on 9-11 that may put the
Saudi's in a bad light.

I failed to capture the anthrax killer who tried to murder the leaders of
our country at the U.S. Capitol Building. I have no leads and no credible
suspects.

Following the World Trade Center attack I have successfully prevented any
PUBLIC investigation into the biggest security failure in the history of
the
United States.

I removed more freedoms and civil liberties for Americans than any
president
in U.S. history.

In a little over two years, I created the most divided country in decades,
possibly the most divided since the Civil War.

I entered my office with the strongest economy in U.S. history and have
turned every single economic category downward -- all in less than two
years.

Records and References:

I have at least one conviction for drunk driving in Maine. My Texas
driving
record has been erased and is not available.

I was AWOL from the National Guard.

I refuse to take a drug test or even answer any questions about drug use.

All records of my tenure as Governor of Texas are now in my father's
library, sealed, and unavailable for public view.

All records of SEC investigations into insider trading or bankrupt
companies
are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public view.

All records or minutes from meetings that I, or my Vice-President,
attended
regarding public energy policy are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for
public review.

~ Please consider my experience when voting in 2004. ~






Clinton Policies

Tried to get Universal Health Care
National Health Care Costs rising at 10% per annum. Cut to 3%
Deficit Reduction Package
Crime Bill
100,000 cops on street—crime down down down
Welfare Reform-- Mend do not end. GOP helped bit time
80% increase in child welfare payments
Job Growth-Record 236,000 per month. (Reagan/Bush 167,000)
Largest percentage of Americans working in history
Largest Home Ownership in history
Record number of small business formations
Tax Cut for 15 million working families
Family and Medical Leave Act
Defense Reinvest and Conversion—Bush enjoying weapons created by Clinton
Direct loan programs for students
Guts to put promises in a book "Putting People First"-58 promises in book. Took action on 56 in first two years.
Second best record in history for getting legislation through Congress in first to years. LBJ number one.
Reinvented Government—cut payroll
Fewest number of civilians on federal payroll in 36 years
Attacked cop killing nasty rifle association.
Attacked the cancer inducing tobacco industry
Promoted a global effort to ban abusive forms of child labor
Loan 12.8 Billion to Mexico. Made 800 Million profit. Kept Mexico afloat.
Wash. Post kept list of campaign promises. 162. Took action on 96% in first two years.
Took on prejudice toward other Americans in military
Took on his own Southern Baptist Church
Hard smart work in Middle East and Bosnia-Kosovo
Honored with all of the following:
Dove of Peace Award
Rabin-Peres Peace Award
Gandhi Peace Award
Order of Good Hope Award
Nominated for Nobel Peace Award
Northern Ireland Peace Agreement
Lifeaholics of America Award for Quarter Century "Working for a Life Not Just A Living".
First President to visit Northern Ireland
Cleanup of Toxic sites. Record
Increasing weekly earnings
Shoo Shoo Saddam get away from Kuwait
Stopping Haitians from drowning enroute to freedom
First to visit South Africa
First to make a determined effort to help the African continent come together and grow together
Taxing top 1.2% of very wealthy to get Zoom Zoom Boom economy
Stopping Republicans in the House from raiding Medicare of 181 Billion
Stopping Republicans raid on Medicaid
Stopping Republicans raid on education
Stopping Republicans attack on environment
Largest increase in Education funding since GI Bill
Increased funding for Head Start
Nafta.. A success until the Peso went south
Submitting 8 budgets close to rate of inflation
Brady Bill
Gaat
Assault Weapons Ban
Telling Japan "You take our auto parts or we will apply tariffs on you
California Desert Protection
Forest Management Plan for Northwest
Restoration of Florida Everglades
Preservation of land in Utah
Major increase in funding for homeless
Motor Voter Act
Lobbying Reform Effort. Handshake with Newt who reneged
Pressure to get Campaign Finance Reform.
National Export Strategy. Unbelievable success.
Over 250 Trade pacts
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Pact
Summit of Americas
Super 301
Chemical Weapons Ban Treaty.
Bottom Up Review of Military
Agreement with Cuba to stop flow of immigrants to USA.
Ameri-Corps
Reduced Nuclear Threat Around the World
Community Banking Act
FEMA used as an active participant and a leader in disaster relief
Tax on well off social security beneficiaries
100,000 new teachers effort
5,000 new classroom effort
50% of classes thru K-12 on internet
Fourth Graders improvement on world tests
Lifetime Learning Opportunity Program
Controls on Spending and Borrowing
Pension Protection Act of 1994
Record high consumer confidence
Very, very, very low Misery Index
National Agenda on Racial Prejudices
First to get African-American unemployment under 10%
Balanced Budget
Record Corporate profits
Record Bank profits
Record Savings and Loan profits
Never whining despite non-sop smears and attacks
Not having a Mean Bone in his body per Historian David Maraniss
Not knowing how to hate
Classing others as "opponents" not "enemies"
Inviting your attackers to the White House functions
Inviting your defeated opponent Bob Dole to visit troops at Christmas
A national attack on hate crimes
Fighting to protect "legal" immigrants from Republicans in the House.
Fighting hard for Fast Track legislation
Kennedy and Kassenbaum Portability of Insurance
Lowest interest rates in 30 years
Allowing millions of homeowners to refinance home loans at lower (much) rates
Lowest unemployment in 25 years
Lowest inflation in 25 years
Lowest welfare rolls in 27 years
Lowest crime Rates in 25 years
First balanced budget sent to Congress in 29 years
Protecting worker pensions (repeat?)
Opposed ban on "Late Term Abortions"
A stock market which passed a 1,000 mark six times
Greatest growth in federal revenues in history
Played Saxophone and Smoked Peace Pipe, instead of beating War Drums like____.
One of History's all time workers for Peace
President in a year when Fortune Magazine classified it as "Greatest Economy in the History of the world"
Popularity jump in the midst of a scandal.
President with highest peacetime popularity in Asia, Africa, Russia and Europe.
Highest popularity of any president at end of fifth year in office
One of the most highly regarded First Lady in History.
One of the most highly regarded Vice-President in History

[PeteC]

5. What kind of jobs?

The increase in the number of people living in povery is a direct reflection of the type of jobs that have been created under *'s recovery.

[0rganism]

7. As he says, it's hard to tell where to start, with all the bullshit

Blaming the current economy on Clinton... well, tell him to get over it. In early 2001, the republicans were predicting a surplus. They justified their tax cuts on the basis of Clinton's economic boom. Then, when the revenue cuts had their obvious effect, they blame everything but their own economic policies. The irony is, once the surplus disappeared and the government declared itself incapable of assisting displaced workers in the recession, the tax cuts for the very wealthiest people in America remained untouched.

Quite pathetic.

Poverty in this country... his excuse is that poor people have two cars and a VCR? What a crock. I can buy a used car for $200, but at that price I'd better have two because chances are only one of them is going to be running at any given time. Hell, sometimes it's cheaper to buy a used car then fix an old one. There are few assets that depreciate as fast as cars and consumer electronics.

As for the jobs, well, he's blowing smoke up your ass. The ABSOLUTE NUMBERS, based on the PAYROLL SURVEY the BLS uses to get its data, show a net loss of over a Million jobs since bush took over. Is he ready to tell a displaced tech worker to take one of those "seasonal jobs"? Salaries and benefits are down, as the labor market is forced to equalize with the impoverished conditions of the nations with the worst labor and environmental standards possible. Thanks to subsidized outsourcing, the American worker is closer than its ever been in my lifetime to the poverty conditions of "wealth in most nations". bush's touted 144000 jobs in August is barely enough to break even with the new workers entering the jobs market!

Check out the jobs reports and economic data at http://www.epinet.org/ for mountains of data to refute this tweaker.

[cmd]

9. Check out this series from the Plain Dealer

Part 1 - reporter takes job at Bob Evans to see how the other side lives. Part 2 comes up tomorrow

http://www.cleveland.com/ohio/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/news/1094473814326240.xml

[yardwork]

10. His "facts" are wrong - he probably got them at freeper central

Ask him to back up his "facts." You'll find he can't.

[Red Fox]

11. And as final glove slap French style

Let him suck on this

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2004/0409.sirota.html

Two decades ago, the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) was a highly respected financial titan. In 1987, when its subsidiary helped finance a deal involving Texas oilman George W. Bush, the bank appeared to be a reputable institution, with attractive branch offices, a traveler's check business, and a solid reputation for financing international trade. It had high-powered allies in Washington and boasted relationships with respected figures around the world.
All that changed in early 1988, when John Kerry, then a young senator from Massachusetts, decided to probe the finances of Latin American drug cartels. Over the next three years, Kerry fought against intense opposition from vested interests at home and abroad, from senior members of his own party; and from the Reagan and Bush administrations, none of whom were eager to see him succeed.

By the end, Kerry had helped dismantle a massive criminal enterprise and exposed the infrastructure of BCCI and its affiliated institutions, a web that law enforcement officials today acknowledge would become a model for international terrorist financing. As Kerry's investigation revealed in the late 1980s and early 1990s, BCCI was interested in more than just enriching its clients--it had a fundamentally anti-Western mission. Among the stated goals of its Pakistani founder were to "fight the evil influence of the West," and finance Muslim terrorist organizations. In retrospect, Kerry's investigation had uncovered an institution at the fulcrum of America's first great post-Cold War security challenge.

Tell him to take his worthless corrupted ass and shove it.

MORE

However, his facts are not entirely incorrect. He exaggerated, but they come decently close, according to this site: http://www.heritage.org/Research/Welfare/bg1713.cfm

Still, I can't imagine any of those listed as belongings are expensive when they're secondhand. You can get secondhand cars for 1k dollars. It obviously sounds a lot nicer than they make it out to be.

[gollygee]

15. Isn't the Heritage Foundation a conservative think-tank? (m)

Dunno if I'd trust their info.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

12. Why poor people have cars

Most cities in this country are so backward that they don't provide public transit. Grocery stores avoid poor neighborhoods, and these same poor neighborhoods have few or no jobs. If poor people want to work, they need cars in most places.

DUH!

Whenever anyone tells me how good poor people have it, I ask them to quit their current job and try living on minimum wage.

[WLKjr]

13. Well he is an only child

and is VERY VERY VERY wierd. Dresses in all black all the time and acts like he is smart. He is, but arrogance has claimed him and his way of thinking.

[kayell]

14. The person is full of BS. The statistics ownership you need are here,

although only through 2000. http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/wealth/1998_2000/wealth98_00.html

I hope the tables render ok in your browser. They look like garbage in mozilla. You can probably call the census bureau and get them to help you. A reference librarian likely has the figures on disk at your local library. A good librarian can help you with some of the rest of the statistics. These are all things that the census and the GAO track.

[midwayer]

16. Here is a good few

I SHARE IN THE GOALS OF PRESIDENT BUSH
I'M FOR $100 A BARREL OIL

I SHARE IN THE GOALS OF PRESIDENT BUSH
I'M FOR HIGHER GASOLINE PRICES

I SHARE IN THE GOALS OF PRESIDENT BUSH
I'M FOR HIGHER HEATING OIL PRICES

I SHARE IN THE GOALS OF PRESIDENT BUSH
I'M FOR HALLIBURTON

I SHARE IN THE GOALS OF PRESIDENT BUSH
I'M FOR HIGHER DRUG COSTS

I SHARE IN THE GOALS OF PRESIDENT BUSH
I'M SENDING MY SON TO INDIA TO FIND WORK IN THE COMPUTER FIELD

I SHARE IN THE GOALS OF PRESIDENT BUSH
OUTSOURCING MAKES FOR A STRONGER AMERICA

I SHARE IN THE GOALS OF PRESIDENT BUSH
LEAVE KEN LAY ALONE

I SHARE IN THE GOALS OF PRESIDENT BUSH
THE ABUSES AT ABU GHRAIB SHOW THE WORLD NOT TO MESS WITH AMERICA

I SHARE IN THE GOALS OF PRESIDENT BUSH
THOSE WHO SUPPORT THE BUSH/CHENEY TICKET HAVE NOTHING TO FEAR FROM THEIR GOVERNMENT

I SHARE IN THE GOALS OF PRESIDENT BUSH
THOSE WHO SUPPORT THE BUSH/CHENEY TICKET HAVE NOTHING TO FEAR FROM THE PATRIOT ACT

I SHARE IN THE GOALS OF PRESIDENT BUSH
IF THE CONSTITUTION GETS IN THE WAY OF THE PRESIDENT'S NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGY, THEN CHUCK IT

I SHARE IN THE GOALS OF PRESIDENT BUSH
THOSE OPPOSING THE BUSH/CHENEY TICKET SHOULD BE DESIGNATED ENEMY COMBATANTS

I SHARE IN THE GOALS OF PRESIDENT BUSH
THOSE EXPOSING U.S. WAR CRIMES HELP THE ENEMY AND JOHN KERRY THEREFORE IS AN ENEMY COMBATANT

I SHARE THE GOALS OF PRESIDENT BUSH
THOSE SUPPORTING THE BUSH/CHENEY TICKET WILL NOT BE DENIED DUE PROCESS, AT LEAST FOR NOW.

http://www.senderberl.com/

[AP]

17. Poverty isn't measured by what material possessions you have, but what

choices you have.

The average wealth of the bottom quintile (1 in five Americans) is NEGATIVE $10,000 dollars.

They might have gone into debt to buy a car or a VCR, but the fact remains that your options are REDUCED when you go into debt, even if you have a bunch of quickly devalued possessions to show for your debt.

People should be able to buy those things without going into incredible debt. But wages are stagnating and lenders and health care companies (eating up 20-25% of teh GNP) rule the roost in America, thanks to Republicans.

So, what happens when there are so many people in debt? You have fewer choices. Your kids can't go to the best schools. You can't change your job for a better job or open a small business if the downside risk is too great. That's VERY bad for America. But that's what Republicans want. It protects them.

And this isn't just a problem for the bottom. It's a huge problem for the middle. Bush is transferring HUGE amounts of wealth from the people creating it in the middle -- the people who are working and who have a little bit of money -- to the people at the top who aren't working all that hard to get it. Their work is basically lobbying the government for a tax break or a government contract financed by taxpayer money.