THE Case against Dubya

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Bill Gallagher: 'Playing politics with national security: Bush-Cheney specialty'
Posted on Tuesday, August 10 @ 10:17:14 EDT
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By Bill Gallagher, Niagara Falls Reporter


The economy continues to sputter. Second quarter growth slowed abruptly and the stock market is weak.

Instead of the 200,000 new jobs predicated for July, only 32,000 emerged.

Bush doesn't seem to notice, declaring on the campaign trail that "growth is strong and getting stronger," as he's set to become the first president since Herbert Hoover to preside over a net loss of American jobs.

A direct fiscal stimulus for the economy is out of the question, since Bush squandered the Clinton surpluses and we're now looking at a record $450 billion deficit this year. Bush's radical program to give tax breaks to the wealthiest Americans, and to do so by creating unconscionable debt for the working middle class, is causing terrible harm and is a monumental fraud.

Forty-three million Americans are without health insurance, and Bush's policies are causing more to fall into that difficult status. The Center for Studying Health System Change, a nonpartisan research group, finds that, since 2001, nine million American workers have lost their health coverage. During Bush's watch, the proportion of people under 65 with employer coverage fell from 67 percent in 2001 to 63 percent in 2003.

That is a national disgrace, and more evidence of the harm Bush is causing.

People of every political stripe must mobilize to stop the radical wildmen in the White House who never stop plotting "new ways to harm our country and our people."