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College Democrats -- Political Insight

Are our government’s policies a good representation of the conglomeration of our country’s citizen’s values?

Can a citizen of Japan, Belgium, Turkey, and Indonesia review our leader’s decisions and get an accurate picture of mainstream American Values?

Are the Social, Economic, Domestic, and International policies of George W. Bush your personal values?

When asked about his priorities if elected to office, George W. Bush mentioned his 1.6 Trillion Dollar Tax Cut, Prescription Drug Benefit, the Social Security Lockbox, and peace in the Middle East.  When asked if he was a moderate, George W. Bush said that he was a “Compassionate Conservative.”  The 2000 election was a statistical standoff in every Federal Election.  The 2002 election was effectively 55/45 in favor of Conservative Leaders on the Federal scene while it was still a standoff in State Elected positions.

Now it is 2004.  American Troops have invaded another sovereign nation and overthrown its government, without provocation directly against American Citizens, for the first time in United States history. 

Bush failed to eliminate the threat of Al Qaeda after the September 11th terrorist attack despite invading feudalist Afghanistan and installing a hopelessly unrecognized regime; a regime that has no real governing authority over the ‘badlands’ of Afghanistan.

Bush and allies have created an office whose leaders will be political appointees who will be hired, fired, and overseen by only the Executive Branch.  The office has been given the right to monitor any email, wiretap any telephone conversation, and at their discretion, arrest and incarcerate any individual on American Soil (or abroad) for any length of time without right to counsel or a jury of their peers. 

Bush has done nothing to ease tensions between Pakistan and India, choosing instead to antagonize India – the world’s most populous democracy and 2nd most populous nuclear power. 

Bush has supported Israel in its election of Ultra-Conservative Likud Party leader Ariel Sharon, an ex-General of the Israeli Army who was indicted by ISRAELI officials for excessive brutality against Palestinians in the early 1980’s, who has escalated the conflict into a war between the two only 2 years after Arafat and Ehud Barak were on the verge of signing a treaty proposed by Former President Clinton.  A treaty which Bush did not support when Arafat later offered to sign it.

Bush has created a budget deficit and eliminated the surplus.  The resulting rise in interest payments owed by the United States will increase interest rates on all types of consumer loans at a time when the economy is spiraling downward and unemployment is rising.

Bush, the most visible elected representative of the United States of America to the rest of the world, has denounced and unilaterally withdrawn from a NATO Treaty signed over 25 years ago that sought to defuse the Cold War Nuclear Arms Race, has denounced and unilaterally withdrawn from an international commission to study the effects of pollution in the environment, has called the United Nations irrelevant, and has used words like SOB in public policy statements.

Bush and Republican House and Senate members refused to renew an existing law which extended unemployment medical benefits to millions of unemployed Americans.  This decision was made concurrently with rising unemployment in the aftermath of the 2000 stock market crash which resulted in mass corporate bankruptcies, severe losses in employee 401-K savings, and unprecedented criminal corporate unethical behavior.

President Bush's colleagues that lead the Supreme Court, Senate, House of Representatives, and at the head of all governmental departments along with the Conservative leaders of the military, intelligence, and law enforcement branches of our Federal government stand ready and are vigorously enacting an extremist, right wing agenda - even more so than the Conservative standards set in the Reagan administration. If the past Presidential election of 2000 is any indicator, the voice of Labor, the New Democrats, the Social Liberals, and other non-Conservative persons as well as social and economic moderates make up 50% of America's registered voters who bother to voice their opinion in a general election; with literally hundreds of thousands more sympathetic individuals "waiting in the wings" - but not voicing their opinion. (The African American voter turnout was well under 35% nationwide, yet George W. Bush received a pathetic 3% portion of that vote.) Despite Republican rhetoric to the contrary, President Bush and Congressional Republicans refuse to compromise on any issue of importance with Democratic leaders, instead using their 51% Majority to enact their will without taking into consideration the wishes of the American people.

Where could Unchecked Conservative Authority Lead?

It could transform America into a Theocratic Free-Market Nightmare; where only those wealthy at birth are assisted and validated in a new American Corporate Aristocracy, with virtually no middle-class, and where those born without wealth are offered no opportunity and/or access to education. To a Republican, the “nominally talented” can make do with the lowly service-based positions the Market will provide as well as whatever small protections deemed “compassionate” or “philanthropic” by Protestant Religious Leaders, and then only to those deemed worthy by them.

Take an interest.  Take back your government while you still can.

“Never separate the lives you live from the words you speak.”

- The Late Senator Paul Wellstone