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Here's
a short list of the top 7 reasons we're running this ad campaign
against President George W. Bush and his administration. We hope this
informs your own commercials, and inspires you to look further into the
policies of the Bush Administration and their effect on the American
public.
1. It appears that the Bush Administration has consistently misled the American public about Iraq ,
most significantly regarding Saddam Hussein's possession of weapons of
mass destruction and his ties to al Queda and Osama bin Laden.
http://www.fair.org/press-releases/beyond-niger.html
2. The Bush Administration's regressive environmental policies have lowered cleanliness standards for our air and water
while allowing utility companies (many of whom are Bush campaign
contributors) to profit off of the weakened regulations. In 2002, the
head of the EPA's Office of Regulatory Enforcement resigned,
complaining that the agency was “fighting a White House that seems
determined to weaken the rules we are trying to enforce." (CNN, Aug.
22, 2002)
The Bush Record on the Environment for 2003:
http://www.nrdc.org/bushrecord/2003.asp
3. Bush is underfunding education. The President cut $200 million from his own No Child Left Behind Act,
eliminating crucial educational programs for lower income children and
cutting professional training for more than 20,000 teachers.
Flawed
from its very foundation, No Child Left Behind is based on
then-Governor Bush's late-‘90s “Texas Miracle,”—a program of
standardized testing designed to increase performance and reduce
dropout rates--now recognized as a scandalous failure.
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0338/schanberg.php
4. The Bush Administration's Patriot Act
threatens our constitutional rights and civil liberties. Passed by a
post 9/11 Congress, the Patriot act expands the ability of law
enforcement to conduct secret searches, and engage various forms of
surveillance, including internet monitoring and wiretapping. It gives
the FBI access to American citizens' highly personal medical,
financial, mental health, and student records without notification or
permission, and allows them to investigate individuals without probable
cause of a crime. Finally, it permits non-citizens to be jailed based
on mere suspicion and held indefinitely in six month increments without
meaningful judicial review.
http://www.aclu.org/SafeandFree/SafeandFree.cfm?ID=12126&c=207
5. Bush's Tax Cuts only benefit the rich. Bush
claimed that his tax cut would “reduce tax rates for everyone who pays
income tax.” He failed to mention that this “relief” program would put
half of the tax cut's dividends into the hands of our nation's
wealthiest 5%, while 8.1 million citizens in the bottom half of the
income bracket receive approximately $300 a year.
http://www.ctj.org/html/gwbfinal.htm
6. 3.3 million jobs (93,000 in August of 2003 alone) have been lost since
Bush took office--more than the last 11 Presidents combined. (Bureau of
Labor Statistics, June 2001-August 2003) Meanwhile, huge corporations
are paying fewer taxes than ever:
http://www.cbpp.org/10-16-03tax.htm
7. Bush is underfunding homeland security :
While energetic in waging war abroad, the Bush administration has been
oddly lethargic in fortifying our defenses at home. Domestic security
agencies have been neglected. Police and firefighters have been denied
essential resources, and muddled public strategy has only spread alarm
and confusion.
http://www.ppionline.org/
More Recommended Reading:
The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century, by Paul Krugman
Dude, Where’s My Country?, by Michael Moore
Lies (And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them): A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right, by
Al Franken
The Bush Dyslexicon: Observations on a National Disorder, by Mark Crispin Miller
Bushwhacked: Life in George W. Bush’s America, by Molly Ivins
Bush’s Brain: How Karl Rove Made George W. Bush Presidential, by James Moore
The Lies of George W. Bush: Mastering the Politics of Deception, by David Corn
Weapons of Mass Deception: The Uses of Propaganda in Bush’s War on Iraq, by Sheldon
Rampton, John C. Stauben
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