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Originally Posted by Joshua May
Massive debt, many areas ravaged by unemployment, sounds like economic problems to me.?
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The National debt under Clinton rose from ~32T dollars to ~58T dollars, almost doubled. The deficit spending did end in his final year or so, but that contributed to a spike of 4T under Bush because essential spending had been gutted. The aftermath of nine-eleven accounts for much of the rest.
The U.S. unemployment rate has dropped to 5.6 percent, lower than the average during the 1990s. Growth is a robust 4 percent; inflation is low (partly because trade depresses prices). The Manufacturing Index is at its highest level since 1983.
Kerry claims he’ll reward corporations who keep jobs here, or return them from overseas. His family should get in line first for that bonus; H.J. Heinz Co. operates 22 factories in the United States and 57 in foreign countries.
Research estimates are that outsourced jobs will rise to 600,000 by 2005 -- out of a total of 140 million. Most all of those jobs are the ones that Americans find “dead end”. The companies save money, which they use to create more of the kinds of jobs that Americans will lower themselves to work.
Back to deficit spending: If the Democrats get their European style national health care, then you ain’t seen nothing yet! And, as educated persons with the high-end jobs, they won’t care much to stand in line behind the crack heads. The Republicanism of tort reform is the only logical solution (sorry Jeffery Figer, etal) to our health care dilemma. My wife has worked at a hospital for over 30 years, and has never seen them turn anyone away. No, they don’t have right to get in first-come-first served, but they do get in.
As for the rest: If someone thinks we can negotiate with terrorists, then they can do so at their front door. If they think the Europeans will assist us without exacting way more than a pound of economic flesh, then they have no sense of history. If they think the Syrians, Saudis, Iranians, and Afghans who poured over the borders to disrupt the democratization of Iraq would otherwise be asleep in their comfy little beds, then I remind them of the 19 who were in sleeper cells until they day they went to Paradise.
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Originally Posted by Joshua May
Osama hates all Americans. He wants all of America to leave the Middle East. I believe you are under the assumption that Osama would vote for Kerry, and even if so, does that make Kerry a bad man? Does that make Kerry unfit for the presidency.
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On the contrary, I believe that Osama would vote for Bush - because Osama wants a fight. I believe he should get that fight, because his ultimate goal is not for us to leave the Middle East, but to leave the planet.
We could leave the Middle East - sit back and watch them tear themselves to pieces - where Osama goes, Muslims die. Then, with but one tribe left standing, we could settle it for once and for all. But that would mean the death of Islam, or the death all the other faiths. I'd rather see us attack the cancer than erradicate the afflicted.