Is Bush waging class warfare?
925644
1.) Bush and all republicans for that matter promote social darwinism. \n\n2.) Reps also promote inequality.  They want the rich to get richer, the poor to get poorer and the middle class more vulnerable as they fall into poverty.  \n\n3.) Republicans stand for unequal results and unequal assets\n\nPlutarch once said "an imbalance in the rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics."
951574
i think they are. more than republicans look at bush's record that should answer your question how many rich republicans are fighting his oil war?
1098970
It may not be.  Support for President Bush's administration comes mainly in the arena of his efforts to prosecute the war on terror.  That one issue alone has defined his time in office.  There have been mistakes, misjudgements, and he hasn't seen a spending bill that he didn't like.  He's grown government faster than most Democrats could have thought possible, which is saying a lot.  He has made efforts in providing additional funding for disabled people, education (although no child left behind is a really bad program), and, believe it or not the environment.  War time presidents are often consumed with the second guessing and bad press regarding the war that they are on the constant defensive.  So, even though I do support the effort in prosecuting the war on terror (I think that the threat was identified early enough that President Clinton could and should have handled it in the 90's) I don't think that this administration is one of the best.  But compared to Clinton's willingness to deploy the military every time he thought it would make a good photo op, I think George is doing the best he can.
113042
Do you talk about Matwees or Samurl Huntington's "clash of civilizations"?\nAs it looks it is inevitable. Just hope it will go easy on the world, because Bush looks serious about taking up a war.
778853
Actually,  I think you're totally right.  Have you noticed how stressed out the man has looked lately?  He has really aged over the past 2 or 3 years.  He is stuck in an unwinnable war, and he doesn't know how to get out of it.  Now that his party doesn't control congress, he can blame all his troubles on that.  He can ask congress for all kinds of wacky nutjob laws, and when they refuse to pass them, he can say, "Look, everything would be better if congress had passed the Give a Range Rover to Every Iraqi bill, but they rejected it, so you can't blame me!"
570909
your facts are not correct.  first bush wanted a guest worker program prio to 9/11, his reasoning was workers are paying taxes and bieng miss treated, rejiestered workers can exist above ground.  the fence thing, is not something bush advocated until it came out of congress in both the senate and house verisons, thus it looks like he has to accept it--do you understand how laws get created in the US?  Hitler and the wall, funny. again you got your facts wrong, hitler wanted the jews, gay, and un pure out of his country he deported them.
729613
He thinks so!\n\n"A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it."\nSource: Business Week Online, "A Gentleman's "C" for W," Richard S. Dunham, July 30, 2001\n\n\n"Do you have blacks, too?"\n—Bush, speaking to Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Cardoso. \nSource: Salon.com, "Bushed," Jake Tapper, June 20, 2002 \n\nBush is a Fascist!\n\n\nGeorge please spare me! You call all Democrats liberal and commies!!
541477
yup... Bush has made cuts to education and that's not mentioning his No Child Left Behind program that has heavily taxed an already overburdened system... \nAnd college tuition has went up an average of 40 percent since Bush's presidency... and loans and grants are down...\nEducation is far down his list, and all of his suporters have their children in private school and just want the school choice program so they can milk the system even more...\n\nNot everyone can afford private school... and has anyone ever been in an inner-city school... or even a school that is way out in the middle of nowhere in the south... poverty beyond belief and no supplies...
1120382
There are definitely some eerie Big Brother/Cult of Personality vibes coming off the GOP these days.  According to his apologists, Bush can do no wrong.  To voice opposition to his policies is branded disloyalty.  All his his lies are treated as gospel.  Corruption, stealing elections ... advanced Fascism or Banana Republic, call it what you will.\n\nBlatant disregard for the Constitution and the principles this country was founded upon: balance of powers, rule of law, separation of church and state, favoring corporations and the wealthy over the interest of the people ... the list goes on and on ...
927334
If war was ever a worthwhile venture it would be different. But this is not war, it's a battle ground for control of a region and it's resources.  Unfortunately it's still out of control with no real solution in sight.  The Bush wealth wagon loaded with oil realizes that the loss of control means loss of wealth and the demise of an industry full of greedy corporate fat cats sucking blood from hard working commoners dependent on fuel to eke out a living.  Democrats somehow always seem to botch something and lose their governmental footage leaving the people without a prayer and under the feet of the Corporate based mentality of the Republicans. Hopefully this will change and maybe the Democrats can keep their zippers up. Unfortunately the surplus was squandered by Bush and replaced with a national debt that will trickle down to your great grandchildren.
1175631
Bush has used this war on terror to every advantage he can to grab all the power he can and to cicumvent the constitution in every way he can...he has become the first dictator of the United States...weve always had war on crime war on drugs yadayada....no presidet has claimed them as true wars as in a war against a teritory his abuse of power has become so common that people seem to just accept it...I'm not seing anything changeing that definitely not his Republican congress
1181596
Well ... the bush economy is based upon cutting taxes and borrowing vast sums of money from communist China to make up the difference.\n\nSo if we are to follow our leaders'  example .. the we should all be going into deep credit debt.
88267
Not quite so, here we think that the general international policy of the United States for the past century is criminal, no matter who the president. Bush just happens to be worse than the rest. Look at it this way, he has robbed from his own people with his tax reforms. So, he is not only war criminal (like most US presidents) he is also a regular criminal-- thief :) cocaine abuser and many other things you and I will never know about.\nSpain
282123
No... Neo-Liberal economic policies, combined with crippling western-backed wars (Congo, Iraq, US bombings in Nigeria, Western intervention in the Balkans, etc.), senseless economic blockades (like those imposed on Cuba or Iraq), have led to a wide increase of poverty and unemployment world-wide, this having, as a consequence, the rise of crime, radical ideologies such as fundamentalist islam, and terrorist movements.\n\nThe Bush decision to invade Iraq and Afghanistan has actually increased terrorism exponentially, by creating more poverty and desperation among the Arab populace, while Bush's imperialist expansionist foreign policies have propped rogue states like Iran or North Korea to adquire nuclear weapons to defend themselves, and to become more radical themselves. (such as Iran's election of Mahmud Abdinehab)\nNeo-liberal economic policies are also causing industries to close in the first world, under the guise of this so-called globalization, so that production can be moved to sweatshops in Asia, under dictatorial or weak governments that allow bussinesses to pay less than 15 cents per hour to their workers. This is causing the slow destruction of the middle classes, worldwide, increasing poverty, social-inequality, and reducing economic security.\n\nIn politics, the so-called war on terror has led to a widespread reduction of civil rights, in the US (with the PATRIOT Act and domestic eavesdropping), in Europe (shoot-to-kill policies, and other examples) and in dictatorial countries like China or Pakistan (who are using the "War on Terror" to crack down on their resistance groups, like the Ughiur or the Tibetan independence movements).\nIn addition to all this, neo-liberal policies have implicated the reduction of healthcare and education budgets in many countries, reducing the education level of its populaces and the access to proper healthcare for the poorest segments of their societies.\n\nSo, no, the world is not safer than in 1996. Terrorism, poverty, social inquality, crime and uncertainity have increased, while our civil rights, economic and physical security, health and education levels, have decreased.\nThe world is becoming more and more a dangerous and competitive place, a jungle, if you will, for us commoners, while those in the upper half of society become richer and more powerful each day at the expense of the rest.\n\nVery good question, by the way.\n\n\n\nEDIT: To answer "The Wise One": I am Latin American, and let me inform you that the process of democratization happened during the 1980's, not during the 1990's.\nThe latin american countries that were democracies in 1996 are still democracies now (Including Venezuela and Bolivia, whose governments were democratically elected and, in the case of Venezuela, ratified by a referedum.)\nAlso, the "banana republic dictatorships" (a very offensive term, by the way) you are mentioning were in most cases implanted and backed by the US government, (like, for example, the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile, Videla in Argentina, Fujimori in Peru, The toppling of Arbenz in Guatemala, "Papa Doc" Duvalier in Haiti and many others.\nSo, please learn your facts before opening your mouth.\nAs an Argentinian, we have a democracy that, albeit its dictatorial interruptions, has been in existance since 1912. A term like "banana republic" proves to be very bigoted and offensive.\n\nDon't fool yourself, Oh Wise One... when all serious ONGs and international organizations in the world say that famine and social inequality are increasing worldwide, when the UNESCO says that education levels are decreasing, when millions of people are starving in Haiti, Congo, Sudan and elsewhere (in a situation WORSE than 10 years ago), when the number of terrorist attacks per year worldwide has multiplied iself by 8 or more, the world cannot be a better place.
566439
Sensenbrenner (House Bill Sponsor) says the provisions about an illegal being a felon were put in at the request of the White House.  Press reports from last December have Bush saying good things about the House Bill. Somewhere he decided he could get his slave labor program put in, and now he wants that.\n\nHe sent a delegate to meet twice with the House and Sensenbrenner didn't even bother to go.  Others from the House just kept saying "The President isn't where the people are," according to press reports.\n\nThe one faction that wins from excessive immigration to the point where education and other services are ruined is big business.  That appears now to be what matters most to him.
1044680
This posting isn't too awful.  \nThe idea that liberals dance when they see the casualties of war is another spin column used by the neocons.\nIt is unclear how the conservatives are able to pander to the lower and middle class.\nIs it hip to be ignorant?  I'm afraid ignorance is in at the moment.  This helps to make those with average to low intelligence feel some sense of pride.  \n\nThose who lied and sent our troops into harms way on a known false premise will burn in hell.
499854
please it is president Clinton, and though people are going to say it is just politics it is the same issue. if it is wrong now it was wrong then.  if anything there has always been a double standard between Democrats and Republicans.  people are screaming about an illegal war can not remember president Clinton asking congress for any wars he got us in. but you have president Bush who did go to congress.