Hey, who took two days off?? Not it! Here's a new one for today, an editorial from the Iconoclast, Bush's hometown paper, endorsing Kerry. It's a great read: "Few Americans would have voted for George W. Bush four years ago if he had promised that, as President, he would:
� Empty the Social Security trust fund by $507 billion to help offset fiscal irresponsibility and at the same time slash Social Security benefits.
� Cut Medicare by 17 percent and reduce veterans� benefits and military pay.
� Eliminate overtime pay for millions of Americans and raise oil prices by 50 percent.
� Give tax cuts to businesses that sent American jobs overseas, and, in fact, by policy encourage their departure.
� Give away billions of tax dollars in government contracts without competitive bids.
� Involve this country in a deadly and highly questionable war, and
� Take a budget surplus and turn it into the worst deficit in the history of the United States, creating a debt in just four years that will take generations to repay.
These were elements of a hidden agenda that surfaced only after he took office." Go read! Go vote! |