Politics:Talking Points I'd Like to See
Any Democratic candidate, any time: "President Bush is really raising a lot of money. Still, I bet Karl Rove wishes he could bring in campaign cash as fast as they can run up the national deficit. Bush can really rake it in from Ken Lay, Philip Morris and his multi-million-raking "bundlers", who are just rich people who know other rich people and give some small portion of everybody's riches to Karl Rove; it's a shame that money can't go to the families with poor children whose tax-credit was taken away to further reduce the so-called "tax burden" on America's stuggling millionaire class.
Instead towns, counties and states will be taking on the new tax burden, absent money from the federal government. They will raise property taxes for working families who thought they had achieved the American dream of owning a home. School districts will cut short the school year, lay off teachers and not buy books for students this year. And the government keeps taking money from those who need it most, to give tax cuts to the richest among us.
In America, we often say that our children are our greatest asset. But cuts to school budgets and even denying child tax credits to working families demonstrates that these youngest of our number aren't our priority. Perhaps it is our veterans, who served, fought for and defended our nation in Vietnam, Korea, and the second World War. How does President Bush treat them, while handing out hundreds of millions in tax cuts to the rich and taking in millions more in quid pro quo dirty campaign lucre? America's veterans are waiting six months or more for care in VA hospitals and clinics. 110,000 veterans wait for their first visit at hundreds of VA hospitals around the country.
This is how President Bush treats our children and our veterans, while his fund-raising swat team sucks in millions from power companies and corporate shills. Those millions, Mr. President, belong to to the American people. You took it from them with your tax cut, sending their hard-earned money to the richest of the rich, who sign it right back to your campaign, in a filthy cycle. It's time to stop the cycle, Mr. President. That money belongs to the American people to pay for schools, to protect our air and water, to help our children stay healthy and strong, and to help our parents and our grandparents receive the care they deserve long into the future. That money doesn't belong to you or Karl Rove, Mr. President. It belongs to all of them.
Any Democratic candidate, any time: "President Bush is really raising a lot of money. Still, I bet Karl Rove wishes he could bring in campaign cash as fast as they can run up the national deficit. Bush can really rake it in from Ken Lay, Philip Morris and his multi-million-raking "bundlers", who are just rich people who know other rich people and give some small portion of everybody's riches to Karl Rove; it's a shame that money can't go to the families with poor children whose tax-credit was taken away to further reduce the so-called "tax burden" on America's stuggling millionaire class.
Instead towns, counties and states will be taking on the new tax burden, absent money from the federal government. They will raise property taxes for working families who thought they had achieved the American dream of owning a home. School districts will cut short the school year, lay off teachers and not buy books for students this year. And the government keeps taking money from those who need it most, to give tax cuts to the richest among us.
In America, we often say that our children are our greatest asset. But cuts to school budgets and even denying child tax credits to working families demonstrates that these youngest of our number aren't our priority. Perhaps it is our veterans, who served, fought for and defended our nation in Vietnam, Korea, and the second World War. How does President Bush treat them, while handing out hundreds of millions in tax cuts to the rich and taking in millions more in quid pro quo dirty campaign lucre? America's veterans are waiting six months or more for care in VA hospitals and clinics. 110,000 veterans wait for their first visit at hundreds of VA hospitals around the country.
This is how President Bush treats our children and our veterans, while his fund-raising swat team sucks in millions from power companies and corporate shills. Those millions, Mr. President, belong to to the American people. You took it from them with your tax cut, sending their hard-earned money to the richest of the rich, who sign it right back to your campaign, in a filthy cycle. It's time to stop the cycle, Mr. President. That money belongs to the American people to pay for schools, to protect our air and water, to help our children stay healthy and strong, and to help our parents and our grandparents receive the care they deserve long into the future. That money doesn't belong to you or Karl Rove, Mr. President. It belongs to all of them.
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