The Pentagon has admitted it CAN NOT replace the 5 brigades that Bush sent to man the Surge in Iraq. The number of U.S. Army combat units needed to sustain the current troop levels in Iraq do not exist today in the Army. The only options to come up with the 5 brigades to continue the Bush Surge beyond the spring on 2008 are as follows: Use the National Guard Extend tours in Iraq for Army units beyond the current 15 month tours. Reduce the time out of Iraq below the current 1...
This week Secretary Paulson said the U.S. Economy was just fine. NOTHING could be further from the truth and we again see the White House SPIN DOCTORS at work. Paulson points to the continued creation of jobs but he does not acknowledge that those newly created jobs are paying substantially less then the jobs that were lost. He does not acknowledge that almost 14 Million Home mortgages are in danger or that mortgages companies are in danger of failing including the nations largest which h...
On 14 April 1994 Dick Cheney was asked if would have been a good idea to invade Iraq and depose Saddam. His answer was NO! Here are the reasons Cheney gave in 1994 to not invade Iraq: The U. S would be all alone and none of the Moslem countries would support such action. It would be looked upon as a U.S. Occupation. What do you put in place after you take down the Saddam Government? Pieces of Iraq would fly off and the country would become unstable. It would become a Quagm...
Voodoo Economics by George W. Bush To all that still claim the economy is good better take another look. The Real Estate market is in turmoil. Mortgage companies are teetering on collapse. Consumer purchasing is dropping even at low end retailers like Wal-Mart. The stock market has dropped 10% in a month. Personnel debt is at an all time high and GDP growth is way down with the prospect of showing little or no growth in the months ahead. All this and a continuing annual budget deficit in t...
To all those that want to defend Bush and his Iraq surge lets look at the facts: The so Called Unity Government has only one of the three factions participating in the government. The Maliki Government has agreed on none of the issues that are essential to ending the fighting among the factions in Iraq. A major Bridge north of Baghdad was destroyed. One of the governors was killed. A key Oil official was captured. Nine more Americans were killed and we lost another heli...
Year after year the Bush administration ignores the way China is harming our country. They ignore property rights and under value their currency to gain unfair advantage in selling their products which makes it harder for U.S. products to be sold in China. These practices add to the trade imbalance which is over $200 Billion dollars per year. If all that were not bad enough we continue to see products from China as HEALTH Hazards like tainted Chicken and Fish. Now millions of toys ma...
Here is a real life example of how the Conservatives waste your tax dollars. In 2000 the Sanibel Bridge was inspected and its condition showed it needed to be replaced. That meant a tax increase to fund the project. At that time we had Jeb Bush busily cutting the 1/10 of 1% tax on investments over $500,000 and the GOP controlled Lee County had no stomach for increasing local taxes. The bridge replacement was put off and a little over 2 years ago chunks on concrete began falling into th...
The pictures this week of the leaders of Iraq and Iran walking hand in Hand shows just how big a mistake Bush has made in Iraq. In Iraq entire neighborhoods are being cleansed of all Sunnis. The Sunni members of the Maliki cabinet have resigned and we see the Iraqi PM moving closer to the leader of Iran. This is what our invasion of Iraq has created which is a government in Iraq that is doing just what Saddam did –eliminate any opposition and we have expanded the influence of the Shiites...
President Bush expressed his opposition to an increase in the Federal Gasoline tax to provide the needed funding to deal with the 70,000 bridges that are in need of repair. The Chairman of the House Transportation Committee has proposed a 5 Cent increase in the 18.4 cent Federal gasoline tax to help provide the federal contribution to the Bridge Repairs. Bush only wants to look at reallocating the $24 Billion in Highway funds that are allocated by Earmarks. The vast majority of the $286 B...
The increase in the National Debt and the impact on the interest we must pay each year on that debt is a major and growing problem for the country. Many on this Blog site either ignore this issue or attempt to marginalize the issue because they do not want to have to admit first the cause and second the solution. Mr. Walker has been trying to explain the real danger that faces our country as never before. The reason is because of the size of the issues as well as the number of major is...
Today CNN covered a story about the Sec. of Homeland Security questioning the cost to implement the new state driver’s licenses under the Real ID Act that was signed into law May 11, 2005 and which has yet to be implemented. This is an essential element to know the identify people in the U.S. There could not be anything more basic to fight terrorism in the United States. To show just how faulty the judgment of the Bush administration is first over two years after Bush signed it into l...
I can not count the number of times that Bloggers on Joeuser use this response, “it is just Bush Bashing” to articles I have posted. It is a lame excuse and attempt to divert attention from the factual outcomes that result from the policies we are following. I looked back over some of the hundreds of Blogs I have posted on this site. Almost ALL were all predicated on either a news story (stories) or factual information in a report from an agency of the government or a legitimate r...
Another day and yet another story of how badly the Bush Administration has managed the war in Iraq. Bush complains how Iran and Syria are supplying the weapons that are being used to kill our troops in Iraq. Well the GAO has found that 190,000 AK-47 Assault rifles and pistols that were given to the Iraqi Security Forces can not be accounted for and some of these weapons are most likely being used by insurgents to kill American Troops. A prior report admitted there were 14,000 unaccounted...
On Meet the Press today they reviewed a VERY reveling national poll. It looked at the top 13 issues faced by Americans. It looked at which party had an advantage in the eyes of the American people. Here are the results: Global Warming + 39% for Democrats Health + 36% for democrats Gas Prices + 35% for Democrats Reducing Taxes + 25% for Democrats Education + 22% f...
This morning the front page reports that in 2007 the Federal Highway Trust Fund, which is the source of the Federal Funding for road and bridge repair, is not collecting as much tax revenue as the amount required for the approved repairs. In addition the repairs that are needed are far greater then those that have been approved. The Philadelphia Inquirer story makes the comparison of the fiscal problems of the highway trust fund with the fiscal problems of Social Security. The proble...