One Bush Left Behind

[zengrifter]

The big question is - Is our childs learning? zg

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One Bush Left Behind

by Greg Palast

Here’s your question, class:

In his State of the Union, the President asked Congress for $300 million for poor kids in the inner city. As there are, officially, 15 million children in America living in poverty, how much is that per child? Correct! $20.

Here’s your second question. The President also demanded that Congress extend his tax cuts. The cost: $4.3 trillion over ten years. The big recipients are millionaires. And the number of millionaires happens, not coincidentally, to equal the number of poor kids, roughly 15 million of them.

OK class: what is the cost of the tax cut per millionaire? That’s right, Richie, $287,000 apiece.

Mr. Bush said, “In neighborhoods across our country, there are boys and girls with dreams. And a decent education is their only hope of achieving them.”

So how much educational dreaming will $20 buy?

MORE- http://www.gregpalast.com/one-bush-left-behind/

[aslan]

Originally Posted by zengrifter

The big question is - Is our childs learning? zg

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One Bush Left Behind

by Greg Palast

Here’s your question, class:

In his State of the Union, the President asked Congress for $300 million for poor kids in the inner city. As there are, officially, 15 million children in America living in poverty, how much is that per child? Correct! $20.

Here’s your second question. The President also demanded that Congress extend his tax cuts. The cost: $4.3 trillion over ten years. The big recipients are millionaires. And the number of millionaires happens, not coincidentally, to equal the number of poor kids, roughly 15 million of them.

OK class: what is the cost of the tax cut per millionaire? That’s right, Richie, $287,000 apiece.

Mr. Bush said, “In neighborhoods across our country, there are boys and girls with dreams. And a decent education is their only hope of achieving them.”

So how much educational dreaming will $20 buy?

MORE- http://www.gregpalast.com/one-bush-left-behind/

tax increases to raise money for poor kids is one thing. Tax cuts ratably for all taxpayers is another.

You can have tax cuts to stimulate the economy and tax distributions to help poor kids at the same time. duh. The question is how much do the poor kids mean to the average taxpayer. If you can do without this earmark and that earmark, then we can give a really sizeable amount of revenues to the poor kids. Everyone can participate according to their means in this great work. In case you didn't realize it, the reason rich people get back more taxes, and I ain't rich, is because they paid in more. Tax cut--get it? It's part of what they already gave. I for one want to pay my part for the poor kids. But let's not confuse cuts with how revenues are spent. We don't need half the garbage the US buys with our taxes. And get with your churches too. If churches were living up to their hype, there wouldn't be a need for the government to get into helping the poor. What's happened is that people have come to expect the government to do everything. I don't want that. What ever happened to the charity of the individual person. Go out and feed the homeless. Go out and rescue a poor child. Go out and find someone who needs your help. Organize your church. Organize your neighborhood. Don't look for the government to mismanage your money . You can do the job a lot more efficiently yourself. Christ said feed the hungry. Christ said give drink to the thirsty. Christ said cloth the naked. I don't remember any of his teachings saying that it was the governments responsibility. It's the individual. goevernment got it pushed on them because you and I didn't do it. It's out duty and responsibility and we can do it better.

Wake up. Kill socialism. Up with the republic of free and responsible individuals who look out for each other. Up with the brotherhood of free men! Freedom! Realize what it is. take it back. Reclaim your destiny as a great country and quit crying about what the government should do.

[zengrifter]

Here we see Bush's Friends Helping Schools -

Hidden Swap Fees by JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley Hit School Boards

By Martin Z. Braun and William Selway

Feb. 1 (Bloomberg) -- James Barker saw no way out. In September 2003, the superintendent of the Erie City School District in Pennsylvania watched helplessly as his buildings began to crumble.

The 81-year-old Roosevelt Middle School was on the verge of being condemned. The district was running out of money to buy new textbooks. And the school board had determined that the 100,000-resident community 125 miles north of Pittsburgh couldn't afford a tax increase. Then JPMorgan Chase & Co., the second-largest bank in the U.S., made Barker an offer that seemed too good to be true.

David DiCarlo, an Erie-based JPMorgan Chase banker, told Barker and the school board on Sept. 4, 2003, that all they had to do was sign papers he said would benefit them if interest rates increased in the future, and the bank would give the district $750,000, a transcript of the board meeting shows.

``You have severe building needs; you have serious academic needs,'' Barker, 58, says. ``It's very hard to ignore the fact that the bank says it will give you cash.'' So Barker and the board members agreed to the deal.

What New York-based JPMorgan Chase didn't tell them, the transcript shows, was that the bank would get more in fees than the school district would get in cash: $1 million. The complex deal, which placed taxpayer money at risk, was linked to four variables involving interest rates. Three years later, as interest rate benchmarks went the wrong way for the school district, the Erie board paid $2.9 million to JPMorgan to get out of the deal, which officials now say they didn't understand.

MORE- http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?p...d=ay5LDbjbjy6c

[zengrifter]

Here's Bush helping the US economy and all the children in the world. zg

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Bush Unveils $3.1 Trillion Spending Plan

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush sent the nation's first-ever $3 trillion budget proposal to Congress on Monday, contending that the spending blueprint will fulfill his chief responsibility to keep America safe.

The $3.1 trillion proposed budget projects sizable increases in national security but forces the rest of government to pinch pennies. It seeks $196 billion in savings over five years in the government's giant health care programs - Medicare and Medicaid.

MORE- http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080204/D8UJLI180.html

[zengrifter]

Here Bush keeps our freedoms safe. zg

Abracadabra! Bush Makes Privacy Board Vanish

By Ryan Singel 02.04.08 | 12:00 AM

The Bush administration has failed to nominate any candidates to a newly empowered privacy and civil-liberties commission. This leaves the board without any members, even as Congress prepares to give the Bush administration extraordinary powers to wiretap without warrants inside the United States.

MORE- http://www.wired.com/politics/online.../privacy_board

[aslan]

Trust me. I'm your President.

[zengrifter]

A Few Highlights Of The Dictator's Orders

From Ted Twietmeyer
RENSE / 2-13-8

Listed below are a few highlights of the dictator's madness over the past year. Keep in mind these are only a few of the executive orders
which are not secret. Those orders are most likely far worse and will never see the light of day.

First the mad budget, then the protection for crazy spending within it:

"Protecting Taxpayers from Wasteful Government Spending On Government Earmarks:"
http://www.legistorm.com/score_eo/show/id/8665.html

Promoting and protection of foreign investment in the United States:
http://www.legistorm.com/score_eo/show/id/8664.html

Millions of acres recently opened up to logging by the government, although in
August 2007 this order was issued to protect wildlife:
http://www.legistorm.com/ls_score/EO...2007/13443.pdf

Adjustment of certain rates of pay for certain government leaders:
http://www.legistorm.com/score_eo/show/id/8662.html

Hypocrisy at it's best in the 8th year in office:
Establishing an "President's Advisory Council on Financial Literacy"
http://www.legistorm.com/score_eo/show/id/8663.html

Executive Order allowing torture:
http://www.legistorm.com/ls_score/EO...2007/13440.pdf

Courts-Martial witness testimony via a remote connection:
http://www.legistorm.com/ls_score/EO...2007/13430.pdf

Non-productive International Fusion Energy Organization given priveleges, exemptions and immunities:
http://www.legistorm.com/ls_score/EO...2007/13451.pdf

Contains a clause disolving the president's tax reform panel, claiming "their work is done:"
http://www.legistorm.com/ls_score/EO...2007/13446.pdf

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A few older executive orders from earlier years:

Government poking it's nose into the Locomotive Engineers Union dispute:
http://www.legistorm.com/score_eo/show/id/5097.html

First we had No Child Left Behind - then the National Mathmatics Advisory Panel
apparently was established for more damage control:
http://www.legistorm.com/ls_score/EO...2006/13398.pdf

Malaria added to HIV/AIDS list but not Hepatitis:
http://www.legistorm.com/ls_score/EO...2006/13418.pdf

Gulf War supposedly ended in 2004, or so we were told.
Executive Order in July 2004 ending the entire mid-east war and termination of
ALL the specific previous executive orders all the way back to 1990
that established the first gulf war:
http://www.legistorm.com/ls_score/EO...004/13350.pdf\

The complete list of orders is far too long to include all of them here.

You can read more dictator's orders at
http://www.legistorm.com/score_eo.html

Ted Twietmeyer
www.data4science.net

[aslan]

D*mn! I thought the American people voted for him. Even if you believe the election was stolen (I'm sure both sides tried to steal it before the fact), at least close to a majority voted for him. So I thought that made him a President, not a dictator. And I think he's leaving at the end of the year. I don't think a dictator would do that. I wonder who our next freely elected dictator will be? Is there such a thing as a dictatress?

[zengrifter]

Originally Posted by aslan

I wonder who our next freely elected dictator will be? Is there such a thing as a dictatress?

Is there such a thing as 'free elected' here? zg

[aslan]

Originally Posted by zengrifter

Is there such a thing as 'free elected' here? zg

Granted it's a term of art. If you strongly believe that the WOW (wealthiest of the wealthy) actually control his every move, you might see the Presidency as an orderly succession of short-term dictators, or more accurately, a single veiled dictator pulling the strings of a series of puppet Presidents. Or you might see the string puller to be a plutocracy, a board meeting of the WOW, deciding their puppet's every move.

Personally, I believe it is a mixed bag with each President doing his own thing in many ways and on many issues, but with extreme pressure put on him to comply with the puppet master(s) on their key concerns.

A President is surrounded, I believe, by many individuals under the sway of the puppet master, who are used to handle him throughout his term. Their function is further aided by high ranking members of his party, allies in Congress, high ranking businessmen and military leaders, heads of state, and other influential individuals, even family members, who are all under the sway of the puppet master or his "friends" to some degree or other. It's a game of influence, and no one knows who is ultimately pulling the strings. You have to have the puppet master's vantage point to see the big picture. We can only surmise.