As always, it is important to vote for candidates who support real American values-- fairness, equality, worker's rights, and the common good. We need people who are going to fix this country's poor economy, create economic fairness, build a tolerant society, make things easier and more fair for the working class, support your rights as an American, provide good health care and decent education, protect our environment, and do something about this country's increasing national debt-- all things that Republicans have miserably failed to do.
Under the Bush Administration, this country is spending several billion dollars a week on an unjust war that most Americans oppose. This, coupled with the fact that our current national debt (as of yesterday) is $8,571,794,835,082.73 has resulted in the cutting of many social programs that communities depend on. Not only have social programs been cut, but educational funding has been cut three times under the Bush Administration. In fact, even after promising to make things easier for college students, Mr. Bush cut 12.7
billion dollars from student loan funds. If that isn't bad enough, that cost of college has been going up at an increasing rate. And the few students who did get the opportunity to go to college are then faced with a new obstacle... finding a job. Thanks to Bush's miserable economy, studies show that most college students are unable to find a decent job and are having to move back in with their parents. It's not only college students that are paying for Bush's educational cuts, but also students K-12. Studies show that grades are slipping. This may not be all that surprising since Mr. Bush failed to meet his pledge to support his "No Child Left Behind" program.
Education and students are not the only ones facing danger, but so are workers. Bush and his corrupt conservative cronies in congress and Capitol Hill have been making things very difficult for workers in this country. Bush has put very little restrictions on the market. As a result, so many jobs were outsourced that millions of Americans lost their jobs-- just so that some capitalist could save some money. Bush has also been fighting against unions that protect worker's rights. In addition to his war against worker's rights to organize in a union, he is also trying to abolish overtime pay, something that many people need to provide for their families. A few months ago, the Democrats in the senate were trying to raise the minimum wage so that workers were promised a "living wage." It was the conservatives and Republicans who opposed any form of a "living wage" and proudly voted
against raising our minimum wage (even though many of them voted to raise their own pay). Some more facts about the pathetic state of jobs in this country include: the unemployment rate under the Bush administration has increased higher than we have seen in a long time and more jobs have been lost under George Bush's administration than any other Presidential administration in the history of this country. This will continue to happen unless we vote for people who will fight against Bush's corrupt agenda. If we don't vote correctly and we fill capitol hill with a bunch of jack-off conservatives, many more people will lose their jobs and have to resort to welfare-- another government program that Republicans are trying to abolish. With all of the people losing their jobs, more people
have to go on welfare until they find another job to make ends meet, which is why it does not make any sense that Republicans and conservatives are constantly trying to pass new restrictions that make it more difficult for people to get on welfare.
Are you or anyone you know having trouble paying taxes? If so, this is something you might want to make note of. Since corrupt senators and congressmen have allowed Bush to put this country in such a huge amount of debt, the average American has to pay around 24,000 extra tax dollars to help pay some of this debt. Bush promised to cut taxes. He did. But, he only gave 1% of Americans a tax cut-- and guess what... that tax cut went to the
top one percent of Americans. Do you know what that means? It means that the RICHEST people in the country got tax cuts. Did you get a tax cut?
Sick of the war? So are many Americans. Despite Mr. Bush's statements that we will be able to withdraw troops from Iraq throughout 2006 and 2007, soldiers are now finding that their time in Iraq is being
extended and they have to stay longer. And if you think everything is going ok over there, you are wrong. Just because you hear positive news, that doesn't mean that everything is just peachy. In fact, the only reason you hear positive coverage of the war in Iraq is because our government asked for a public relations contract that calls for
extensive, positive coverage of the war in Iraq. So now the government, thanks to Mr. Bush and the corrupt politicians who supported him, is controlling what you see on the news. If you can't ge the real news, where is freedom of speech or your right to know the truth about what is actually going on? Ask the men and women
you voted into office.
All of these problems have happened because we have allowed them to. If you voted for people who support the conservative plan and agenda, you are just as responsible for the problem as Bush and the bad politicians. This is why you need to vote for progressive candidates who will fix these problems. If you look at any decent progressive's website, you will see that most of them have some kind of plan to fix these problems (unlike the conservatives who only show blind support for the "President"). Keep these issues in mind when you are voting. To vote for change, cast your vote for the Democratic Party.
