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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-21-06 11:53 AM
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INFLATION in U.S. HIGHEST in FIVE YEARS....
Let's see, what's different about these last five years. FUCKING BUSHCO.

And our LYING LEADER had the nerve to TOUT his economy on his radio statement this morning.


WASHINGTON, Jan. 19 (UPI) -- Inflation in the United States hit a five-year high in 2005, largely the result of near-record energy prices.

The Labor Department said overall U.S. inflation last year was 3.4 percent, its sharpest increase since 2000 and more than the increase in workers' average wage gains, The Washington Post reported Thursday.




http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20060119-085440-2180r
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NanceGreggs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-21-06 12:02 PM
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1. And this shall be his undoing ...
As more people are left with lowered or stagnant wages as prices for everyday living go up, more people will realize they've been had.

Bu$hco can lie about pre-war intelligence, lie about the extent of his wiretapping program, lie about ties to Abramoff -- these are things that the average American can't prove or disprove.

But when you lie to people about what's happening in THEIR OWN LIVES, they now KNOW YOU'RE LYING.

As more families are hit with job losses, out-of-control gas and home heating costs, Medicaid cut-offs, etc., even the staunchest Bush supporter is going to start putting two and two together when they hear him talk about the 'great economy', and realize that not only is he lying now, he's been lying to them all along.
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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-21-06 12:06 PM
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2. My only fear is that the people will realize this long after bush* is gone
He's lied heavily for five years and has paid no price whatsoever.
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NanceGreggs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-21-06 12:20 PM
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4. True, but neither did his staunch supporters ...
It's one thing to praise "My President Bush", when you see him as the dragon-slayer who is keeping America safe, blah, blah, blah ...

But when you have to choose between decent food for your family and gas in the car to go to work, or have to forego paying your child's tuition at college because you now need to pay for Grandma's life-saving prescription drugs, you start thinking about who's to blame for your predicament.

Bush's 'great economic policies' are now hitting people where they live -- Republican households as well as Democratic households -- and the stuck pigs who formerly trusted Farmer Bush are going to be sqealing big time starting now ...
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Zeke Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-21-06 12:30 PM
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6. Hmmmmmmm.......
Your faith can move mountains,
but I don't share your faith.

I have no faith in the voters
at all, and when & if they
realize Bush Inc. is a fraud,
it'll be too late, as Bush Inc.
will post soldiers on every
corner to squelch dissent.

That's the goal------period.

On the other hand, I
believe in miracles.
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NanceGreggs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-21-06 12:42 PM
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8. It's not a matter of faith ...
... it's a matter of reality setting in.

For many Bush supporters (voters), they were willing to support him when they thought he was giving tax breaks to the deserving, when he was cutting social programs that they viewed as a hand-out to people too lazy to work.

But when he starts hitting THEM with policies that affect THEIR way of life, they see things very differently.

It isn't a matter of Bush supporters suddenly seeing the light of truth; it's a matter of them realizing that it's THEIR lifestyle that's being threatened now.

It's one thing to put a 'Bush' bumper-sticker on your brand new SUV. It's something entirely different when your SUV is sitting in the driveway, because you can't afford to put gas in it, and you have no job to drive to anyway.

Some of us knew the truth about how this Administration was going to affect us from day one. Others are just now getting a taste of what we foresaw all along -- and they're not liking it one bit.
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mom cat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-21-06 12:08 PM
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3. Gee! Now who has been president the last five years?
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Greyhound Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-21-06 12:27 PM
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5. Let's not forget that these are the best numbers they could come
up with after changing the calculations to hide the real rates. The inflation, debt, and unemployment numbers are all much higher if you use real, raw numbers.
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RC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-21-06 12:40 PM
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7. 5 years? Try 10+ years. Inflation went down under Clinton
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