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January 24, 2003

AOL Bush Poll Results

First, I'm just gonna come out and say it: I was on AOL today. Not just IM but AOL itself, the seething overpriced lowest common denominator of ISPs, all awkward with too many modal popup windows and all.

Anyhoo, they had an interesting poll up asking your rating of Bush on four issues. Here are the results as of 1:30am, when I placed my less-than-stellar review:

Rate President Bush on Iraq:
48% · Poor 203,823
38% · Good 164,033
14% · Fair 60,021
Total votes: 427,877
Rate Bush on the war on terror:
44% · Good 186,266
31% · Poor 132,378
25% · Fair 108,938
Total votes: 427,582
Rate Bush on the economy:
53% · Poor 224,093
26% · Good 112,696
21% · Fair 88,865
Total votes: 425,654
Rate Bush overall:
45% · Poor 190,481
38% · Good 161,483
18% · Fair 74,946
Total votes: 426,910

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George W. Bush wants your vote. He wants it so badly that he is willing to put the educations of the children of America at risk in order to impress you with his concern for their education. He also wants the votes and money of the super-wealthy, so he will help them save more money in one year than the average American makes in two. He also wants the votes and money of people who stand to gain by damaging and destroying our environment, so he is willing to pass laws allowing them to do so. Today, I am going to focus on these three things: education, taxes, and environment. There are many reasons to remove Bush from the White House. I chose these specific reasons because I believe that they are symptomatic of his decision and policy making, and because they are not as well-know as some of his more spectacular mistakes.
To the president’s credit, I will admit that he and his administration have done some good things. No one was excluded from the tax cuts, and I think that it’s possible that they had good intentions in reforming the education system. I have stopped short of calling the president a liar, and a sneak. However, there is an overwhelming body of evidence that does just that, available to anyone who cares to research it. The purpose of this speech is to inform you of a few of his questionable actions. Hopefully, this speech will contribute to your deciding to vote against Bush. If it does not, I hope that it at least inspires you to do some research of your own before voting this man back into office.
The Citizens for Tax Justice and the Children’s Defense Fund did a study on the tax cuts that President Bush has put into effect. It is from this study that I got the following information. It is true that these tax cuts give money back to everyone in the United States; It is likely that you have already saved money because of them. For the next 6 years, all Americans will continue to have lower taxes than they did before President Bush came into office. In 2001, the top 1% most wealthy Americans received 7.3% of our nation’s tax cut. It is strange that the richest people get a disproportionately large cut, but not surprising. What I find surprising is that, by the year 2010, the top 1% will be receiving 51.8% of our tax cuts. During the course of the Bush tax cut plans, 99% of our country will experience a 44% cut in our tax cuts, so that the top 1% can save an extra 82 thousand dollars a year. To put this in perspective: in 2001, the top 1% saved an average of about $3,000 in taxes, which is more than the other 99% saved, combined. In 2010, the top 1% will save an average of about $85,000, while the other 99% will save about $6,000. I realize that in portraying this as a bad thing, I am advocating a flat tax, which our country has not had for quite some time. Do you really think it is fair that the richest people pay a smaller percentage of their money to taxes than the other 99% of us?
Included in these statistics is the Estate Tax, or Death Tax. You may have heard of this tax before. If so, it is likely that you’ve heard a slanted description of it. Those who stand to loose fund negative advertisements portraying the estate tax as a simple tax that is applied to everyone who dies. They strike fear into the hearts of family-run business owners, and people who hope to leave something for their loved ones when they pass. In this way, they have rallied a good number of easily fooled people to protect their wealth. I remember hearing commercials that said things like, ‘it is not right to tax someone for dying’, or ‘why should those people who inherit their family’s wealth have to pay more taxes on it’. In truth, only 2% of the United States is affected by this tax. Specifically, this tax applies only to estates worth more than one million dollars. Bush’s tax cuts phase the estate tax out by the year 2010. Currently, it is set to be reinstated once the tax plan has ended in 2010, but there is a well-funded movement to permanently abolish this tax.. I can understand why America’s super-wealthy would want to keep Bush in office, but I don’t think that the rest of us should be very impressed with his tax cuts. The administration has made it out to sound like they have given the all of the American people a lot of money back. They have given a lot of money back, but a disproportionate amount of it is going right back to the rich.
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Many large companies are benefiting from relaxed or abolished laws governing their impact on the environment, while blissfully polluting the world we live in. Our national forests are being plundered for lumber now that Bush has passed legislature that he presents to the American people as being designed to control forest fires. A unique ecosystem in Alaska stands to be destroyed permanently for the sake of five year’s worth of oil, if Bush gets his way. The current administration is trying to remove government imposed standards for nuclear weapons research and development plants, leaving the standards to be set by contractors who build the plants. The list of crimes that our president has committed against our environment and our safety is quite long. There are a surprising number of industries, known for their monetary support to Bush that are reaping the benefits of his mistakes. The current administration seems to be concerned with profit over people and environment. If you only read their public statements, you may not believe this. However, if you do a little bit of research into exactly what sort of things our President has been up to since he has been in office, you may come to realize that he is not interested in protecting our environment. He seems to be much more interested in getting votes and getting kickbacks from big businesses.
No Child Left Behind. It sounds great, doesn’t it? Though it is true that Bush increased spending on education by 49% during his reign, he is responsible for No Child Left Behind. If you hear the administration’s description of it, this is a great boon to the education system. It creates standards that are supposed to make every child learn. In reality, they are experimenting on children. No Child Left Behind is a federal reform to change the way that children are educated across the country. It is untested, was put into effect too quickly to work properly, and is structured to damage the education system in America. While Bush has increased the education budget, it must be kept in mind that many state economies went even further downhill when he got into office. Most states have record deficits; many have already cut funding to public schools by so much that the new money is just a drop in the bucket. The average school is going to end up with even less money because of this policy.
When No Child Left Behind was put into effect, schools were judged by the new rules without being given time or resources to fit the criteria for increased funding. Under this act, schools are given special funding if they get above a certain score. The scores that schools receive are based on the scores of their students. The scores that students receive are based on raw reading and math scores. In order to fit the criteria, many less well funded schools will be focusing mainly on math and reading, in order to get funding. It does not matter if the students know why we fought the civil war, or where Canada is so long as they pass the math and reading tests. There is no gray area, or scale with which they are judged; either they pass or fail. If a school fails, they do not get as much funding. If a student fails three years in a row, their parents can move them to another school. The school that they move to will have to accept the student, even if they are already overpopulated and they will not get any extra funding for the new student. Teachers who have been at their profession for a long time may be required to stop teaching, go back to college and jump through a certain number of hoops before they will be considered ‘highly qualified’, and allowed to teach again.
No Child Left Behind does not only affect primary education. The money that Bush gives to primary and secondary education, he is trying to take from higher education funding, such as Perkins Grants, which provided $1.19 billion dollars to higher education in 2003. State and Community Colleges will also experience state budget cuts due to so much money being diverted to pass the primary and secondary school tests. With so many states already in debt, No Child Left Behind leaves them with even less money to fund higher education. It may be more adequate to call this plan, ‘Most of the children of those who are not rich left behind’. I don’t know, he may even believe that this policy will help educate America’s youth. Many people, including myself think that it was a poorly constructed plan put into action to get more votes. Flowery speech may hide the real workings of this plan, but only time will tell if our president made yet another mistake at the expense of American citizens.
Everyone makes mistakes and bad decisions from time to time. Our president seems to make bad decisions for the sake of money and votes. I do not have the time to cover more of the many mistakes that he has made as commander in chief, but rest assured, there is a disturbing number of them. Our president should be held to the highest standards, both in word and in deed. Someone who makes as many mistakes as this man has no place running what is supposed to be the most powerful country in the world. Bush reformed taxes, giving a large amount of the cuts back to the ultra-wealthy. He has disregarded our environment, as well as laws that have been put into place to protect it time and again. He created a monster called No Child Left Behind which is likely to leave many children in our country even less educated than they are now. These are just a few examples of reasons not to vote for George Bush this November.
I ask you to ignore the words that our administration uses to describe it’s actions, and look at the actions they take. As they say, talk is cheap. Please do not go and vote for George Bush before really taking a look at what he has done to and for this country. In fact, I encourage you to vote for John Kerry. The third party doesn’t have a chance this time; The only way we are going to get Bush out of the White House is by replacing him with John Kerry. Please, look behind the attack campaigns, the commercials and newscasts designed to make our President look like the man that he should be. Don’t let the media fool you. Read his policies, not his descriptions of them. Look at who his investors are, and the decisions he makes. Be informed, and make your vote count.
SOURCES:

Citizens for Tax Justice (2002). Bush tax cuts after 2002. Retrieved July 30, 2004
http://www.ctj.org/html/gwb0602.htm

Third World Traveler (2002). Death tax deception. Retrieved July 30, 2004
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Economics/DeathTax_Deception.html

Natural Resource Defense Council (2004). Drinking water. Retrieved July 30, 2004
http://www.nrdc.org/bushrecord/water_drinking.asp

Natural Resource Defense Council (2004). Endangered Species. Retrieved July 30, 2004
http://www.nrdc.org/bushrecord/wildlife_species.asp

Natural Resource Defense Council (2004).National Parks. Retrieved July 30, 2004
http://www.nrdc.org/bushrecord/wildlife_parks.asp

Natural Resource Defense Council (2004). The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Retrieved July 30, 2004
http://www.nrdc.org/bushrecord/wildlife_arctic.asp

Jamie McKenzie, Ed.D (2004). Gambling with children. Retrieved July 30, 2004
http://nochildleft.com/2003/jan03.html

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