Re: 36 Reasons To Vote For Bush and Republicans In 2004

Wow, you've really highlighted how incredibly vacant you are when it comes
to public policy.

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> http://www.opednews.com/Boyne0903_reasons_to_vote_republican_and_f.htm
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> 36 Reasons To Vote For Bush and Republicans In 2004
> by James Boyne
> OpEdNews.com
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> Vote for President Bush and Republican Senators and Congressmen if:
>
>   You think $900/month ($10,800/year) is a fair price for a health
> insurance policy.
>
>         a..You believe drug companies should prevent you from buying
> Canadian drugs at half price.
>
>         b..You are a senior citizen and you think you are about to
> receive all your medication for free because President Bush has passed
> the "prescription drugs for seniors under Medicare" legislation.
>
>         c.. You think large tax breaks for CEO's making over $50
> million are good, but your own CEO may have to cut the company budget
> and eliminate your position.
>
>         d.. You never work or get paid for overtime so you don't care
> about the recent Bush bill that will eliminate overtime pay for 8
> million workers. You don't know any of the 9 million unemployed U.S.
> and don't know anyone in Iraq.
>
>         e.. Your state has a budget deficit of $2 billion but we
> should spend $600 billion in Iraq.
>
>         f.. You know Iraq has more oil than any other country in the
> world, but no one knows where it ends up after it comes out of the
> ground or who got the money for it.
>
>         g..You would like to see us attack Syria, Iran, and North
> Korea and Cuba at a cost of $1 trillion, because they are bad and are
> trying to get us and we better get them first. These rogue countries
> are sneaky and have tens of thousands of nuclear missiles and weapons
> of mass destruction pointed at us. You don't know how much $1 trillion
> is. (Answer: It's $1,000,000,000,000 or a million million dollars. $1
> trillion dollars could pay for 25 million jobs that would pay $40,000
> for a year. $1 trillion could employ all of the 9 million unemployed
> for the next three years. The United States could probably purchase
> peacefully all of North Korea for $1 trillion dollars.)
>
>         h..You are a woman and want abortion made illegal, and want
> women imprisoned for obtaining one, to teach them a lesson. You can
> afford to travel to Sweden.
>
>         i..You are a man and want to make sure that women having
> abortions is illegal, and that the men (also known at the "fathers")
> who impregnate the women are completely and totally blameless if such
> a crime is committed.
>
>         j..You like Pat Robertson, the TV evangelist. You send him
> contributions and you pray with him for the "passing" of three Supreme
> Court Justices.
>
>         k..You are 100% for the death penalty and its OK if a few
> hundred people get executed when they were actually totally innocent.
> It's the price we have to pay.
>
>         l..You think that 2 million people in jail is normal and we
> need to lock up even more people. You think we have won the war on
> drugs because no one ever talks about it anymore.
>
>         m..You think $15,000 to $30,000 a year to send your child away
> to college is just fine and it's a good buy.
>
>         n..You are a doctor and want doctors to be imprisoned for
> accidentally or purposely causing an abortion.
>
>         o..You are a doctor and like spending more time with insurance
> paper work, pharmaceutical sales reps, your office personnel, your
> lawyer, phone calls to insurance reps and drug stores, and you find
> your patients too time consuming and annoying.
>
>         p..You are planning to move to China or India and want a job
> with an American company there. (Working for 35 cents an hour with no
> benefits).
>
>         q..You never visited a National Park (Yellowstone, Yosemite,
> the White Mountains) and don't care about them. They look fine on the
> postcards you get from friends.
>
>         r..You are a teacher and think that our educational system is
> tops in the world.
>
>         s..Your town just rejected spending increases of $5 million
> for additional teachers and much needed reconstruction of the school
> buildings, and it's closing a local medical clinic but you think it's
> a good idea for President Bush to give $50 billion to a few warring
> countries in Africa that are in total chaos, so they can build
> schools, hire teachers, open clinics, and then destroy them as they
> continue to kill each other in never ending civil wars.
>
>         t..You keep getting Liberia mixed up with Lebanon so you don't
> really care who gets the $15 billion Bush earmarked of one of those
> countries.
>         u..You like paying $2.00 a gallon for gas because Exxon/Mobil
> must be hurting.
>
>         v..You don't mind transferring your computer technology skills
> to serving coffee in Dunkin' Donuts for $6.00 an hour with no health
> insurance.
>
>         w..You think Saddam Hussein attacked the World Trade Center
> and can't remember who Osama bin Laden is. You forgot who had the
> weapons of mass destruction; us or them.
>
>         x..
>           You believe that 40 million people without health insurance
> isn't all that bad. You think that the solution is that they just
> better not get sick.
>
>         y..You think that your company enjoys paying most of your
> health premiums and they probably have never thought about eliminating
> your position.
>
>         z..
>           You don't know what the Homeland Security Department does,
> how much it costs your State Government, and you can't name all the
> colors on the color-coded alert chart.
>
>         aa..You don't live in the Northeast so the electrical blackout
> didn't affect you but you think we should spend $18 billion on the
> electrical grid in Iraq.
>
>         ab..You think the 150,000 American troops are having fun in
> Iraq and we should send more to protect the Iraqi's from the Iraqi's.
>
>         ac..You think President Bush and the Republican Party deserves
> contributions from the pharmaceutical and health insurance industry
> and you don't mind paying $200 for a bottle of prescription drugs.
>
>         ad..You like seeing constant TV commercials for powerful,
> potentially dangerous prescription drugs because if you didn't you
> wouldn't know you were so sick and your doctor wouldn't tell you about
> the drugs without you asking him.
>
>         ae..You like President Bush's tough talk and get a kick out of
> the expressions "we're gonna smoke 'em out and bring 'em ta justice";
> "we're gonna get 'em dead or alive";  "bring 'em (the terrorists) on";
> and "we're gonna get 'dem folks who knocked down da buildings", and
> you think this eloquent speaking, (prepared and reviewed by 100
> Presidential speechwriters) enhances our stature in the world.
>
>         af..You like to see President Bush getting off the shiny green
> helicopter with his two dogs and he always smiles and waves and holds
> hands with his wife and that seems nice.
>
>         ag..Your main source of information is the Nightly News where
> you hear 20 minutes of short sound bites from any one Presidential
> candidate speaking for 15 seconds on the $600 billion being spent on
> Iraq, intermingled with 15 commercials for pharmaceutical products
> that "speak" for 30 seconds each. You especially like the chemotherapy
> and rheumatoid arthriti commercials that show healthy people walking
> their dogs on beautiful green grass with beautiful sunsets with
> soothing music; and the commercials where people have been cured of
> their diarrehea and constipation and can get to work on time.
>         ah..You voted for Bush's father when he won and you voted for
> Bush's father when he lost. And you voted for this current President
> Bush when he lost, but then you found out he won because of something
> in Florida. And it's easy to remember the name Bush, so you might as
> well vote for him again.
>
>         ai..You live in Florida and it doesn't matter so "let the
> chips (or the chads) fall where they may".
>
>
> I am a former staunch conservative Republican who will vote for Rep.
> Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) a progressive, populist in 2004 for his
> utmost honesty, integrity, common sense, and well thought out
> positions on all the important issues facing our country.
>
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> James Boyne [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> <address removed out of respect for the writer>
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>         James Boyne is a freelance satirical writer. He has a B.S., an
> MBA and a degree in Financial Planning. Mr. Boyne is former computer
> trainer and sales executive for several major corporations. He is an
> avid public speaker and has numerous public speaking awards. This
> article is copyright by James Boyne, originally published in
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