Mug Bill Gates.

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Someone wrote this over one of the urinals: "The joke isn't on the wall; it's in your hand." - BV

You can't really blame Bush for the state of the economy, at least the economy that matters to 99% of us. He alone is just to inept to really have any effect on the nation. I only blame his tax cuts for effictively diminishing the power of the government to ACTUALLY fix the economy. What is actually causing the economic slump is the high unemployment rate. I laugh how Bush points to the Dow Jones average (it has only gone up in the past 6 months) and claims that the economy is recovering; that measure is only important if you're rich. Of course, I wouldn't be surprised that if his "tax cuts" were the cause - when peopel recieve that $1,000 check, they spend it immediately (giving no thought to long-term needs), on products that are imported cheaply from China or Mexico, and the share prices go up, and the rich (not to be confused with the upper and upper-middle classes) are happy.

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Nes digs around in the trash can.
Nes finds a hamburger!
Nes puts the hamburger in his backpack.

[This message has been edited by nottheking (edited February 19, 2004).]

You are all screwed no matter who you elect. I think Kerry will be worse than Bush. See Kerry is both a prick and a dumby. Bush is just a dumby. I give Bush the benifit of the doubt for not being a prick. So there you go, vote bush. Unless the democrats get someone better (NOT DEAN) to run.

Care to explain this more in-depth?

That wouldn't be anywhere NEAR enough...



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Nes digs around in the trash can.
Nes finds a hamburger!
Nes puts the hamburger in his backpack.

How is Kerry both a "prick" and a "dummy"? Is there something I haven't seen/heard?

For anybody interested in finding out the TRUTH about who's funding who (and not just going to take the advertisements at face value), check www.opensecrets.org .

Funding,each candidate has recieved from each sector:

George W. Bush Jr.
John Kerry
Howard Dean
John Edwards

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Nes digs around in the trash can.
Nes finds a hamburger!
Nes puts the hamburger in his backpack.

[This message has been edited by nottheking (edited February 19, 2004).]

... He's making concessions to the Democrats by increasing discretionary spending? Do you not keep up with the campaign at all - Bush is being attacked left and right as being fiscally irresponsible. It's a damned ugly thing when Democrats can criticize the spending habits of a Republican president.



Then stop using liberal as an epithet.



... "Fix" the economy? Eh? Just what do you mean by that? And why was the GDP's growth rate at 8% a few quarters ago if the tax cuts were so terribly ineffective at boosting the economy?

Additionally, you can't assume at all he's going to be reellected. Just from what I see here, there are many people who are saying how there 2000 vote for Bush hasn't become a re-election vote for 2004. Just look how many people voted Republican last cycle and are voting democrat now. You think he's not worried about re-election? He's shaking in his spurred boots. Happen to watch his apperance on Meet the Press (or were you so sure It didn't matter because anything he said would be right?) He was on the defensive with questions that many American's want answers for. Truth be told, he needed to do that interview, and it ended up hurting him more than it helped him.

I'm not saying he doesn't stand a chance, but don't go around filling in those dashes in the presidentential page of your American History Textbook.

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To myself I surrender to the one I'll never please.
But I still try to run on.
You know I still try to run on. But it's all or none.

Eddie Vedder

That would equal.. 1/120 of what would be requireed.

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To myself I surrender to the one I'll never please.
But I still try to run on.
You know I still try to run on. But it's all or none.

Eddie Vedder

It's a start in the right direction.

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"LC Tusken: the idiot is the person who follows the idiot and your not following me your insulting me your following the path of a idiot so that makes you the idiot"
NMGOH || Jack Chick preaches it

So is looking for quarters under arcade machines...

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Do you have stairs in your house?

Sounds like a plan.

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"LC Tusken: the idiot is the person who follows the idiot and your not following me your insulting me your following the path of a idiot so that makes you the idiot"
NMGOH || Jack Chick preaches it

You still have to consider that Bush isn't campaigning yet. Once the Democrats finally figure out who is going to run, Bush will be in a lot more public situations, slinging mud at whoever he is running against.

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I'm not an actor. I just play one on TV.

What do you mean stop using "liberal as an epithet? And yes, I did look up the word.

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Brian: I have only an limited understanding of economics. However, I know that the dangerously low federal revenues (and hence dangerously high deficits) are primarily or entirely due to tax cuts, not a poor economy. Simply put, federal tax revenue as a percentage of the GDP is at its lowest point since 1959: that is, relative to economic situation, the federal government is taking in less money than it has in over four decades.

So no, the economy is not responsible for the deficit. It's barely a factor.

Well at least, it wont be Bush.



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"I like pie alot.
Thats why i look like a pie.
With banana cream."

-Unknown artist

Did Bush run over your dog or something?

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"Guns don't kill people, I kill people."

Yes. And then Ashcroft labelled the dog a terrorist.

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"LC Tusken: the idiot is the person who follows the idiot and your not following me your insulting me your following the path of a idiot so that makes you the idiot"
NMGOH || Jack Chick preaches it

You have no idea how great that is Wolfy. The satire drips from that statement. Totally made my day.

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TI-MAH!

..It wasn't that great..

Ohhh... way to rain on my parade.

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TI-MAH!