"Peanutjake" <peanutjakeNO@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> * You think $900/month ($10,800/year) is a fair price for a health
> insurance policy.
> * You believe drug companies should prevent you from buying Canadian
> drugs at half price.
> * You are a senior citizen and you think you are about to receive all
> your medication for free because President Bush has passed the
> prescription drugs for seniors under Medicare legislation.
> * You think large tax breaks for CEO's making over $50 million are
> good, but your own CEO may have to cut the company budget and
> eliminate your position.
> * You never work or get paid for overtime so you don?t care about the
> recent Bush bill that will eliminate overtime pay for 8 million
> workers. You don?t know any of the 9 million unemployed U.S. and don?t
> know anyone in Iraq.
> * Your state has a budget deficit of $2 billion but we should spend
> $600 billion in Iraq.
> * You know Iraq has more oil than any other country in the world, but
> no one knows where it ends up after it comes out of the ground or who
> grts the money for it.
> * You would like to see us attack Syria, Iran, and North Korea and
> Cuba at a cost of $1 trillion, because they are bad and are trying to
> get us and we better get them first. These rogue countries are sneaky
> and have tens of thousands of nuclear missiles and weapons of mass
> destruction pointed at us. You don?t know how much $1 trillion is.
> (Answer: It?s $1,000,000,000,000 or a million million dollars. $1
> trillion dollars could pay for 25 million jobs that would pay $40,000
> for a year. $1 trillion could employ all of the 9 million unemployed
> for the next three years. The United States could probably purchase
> peacefully all of North Korea for $1 trillion dollars.)
> * You are a woman and want abortion made illegal, and want women
> imprisoned for obtaining one, to teach them a lesson. You can afford
> to travel to Sweden.
> * You are a man and want to make sure that women having abortions is
> illegal, and that the men (also known at the fathers') who impregnate
> the women are completely and totally blameless if such a crime is
> committed.
> * You like Pat Robertson, the TV evangelist. You send him
> contributions and you pray with him for the ?passing? of three Supreme
> Court Justices.
> * You are 100% for the death penalty and its OK if a few hundred
> people get executed when they were actually totally innocent. It?s the
> price we have to pay.
> * You think that 2 million people in jail is normal and we need to
> lock up even more people. You think we have won the war on drugs
> because no one ever talks about it anymore.
> * You think $15,000 to $30,000 a year to send your child away to
> college is just fine and it?s a good buy.
> * You are a doctor and want doctors to be imprisoned for accidentally
> or purposely causing an abortion.
But you are to be forgiven, totally, for coming to work drunk - and
cutting
off the wrong arm in an operation.
> * You are a doctor and like spending more time with insurance paper
> work, pharmaceutical sales reps, your office personnel, your lawyer,
> phone calls to insurance reps and drug stores, and you find your
> patients too time consuming and annoying.
> * You are planning to move to China or India and want a job with an
> American company there. (Working for 35 cents an hour with no
> benefits).
> * You never visited a National Park (Yellowstone, Yosemite, the White
> Mountains) and don't care about them. They look fine on the postcards
> you get from friends.
> * You are a teacher and think that our educational system is tops in
> the world.
> * Your town just rejected spending increases of $5 million for
> additional teachers and much needed reconstruction of the school
> buildings, and it?s closing a local medical clinic but you think it?s
> a good idea for President Bush to give $50 billion to a few warring
> countries in Afri ca that are in total chaos, so they can build
> schools, hire teachers, open clinics, and then destroy them as they
> continue to kill each other in never ending civil wars.
> * You keep getting Liberia mixed up with Lebanon so you don?t really
> care who gets the $15 billion Bush earmarked of one of those countries.
> * You like paying $2.00 a gallon for gas because Exxon/Mobil must be
> hurting.
> * You don?t mind transferring your computer technology skills to
> serving coffee in Dunkin? Donuts for $6.00 an hour with no health
> insurance.
> * You think Saddam Hussein attacked the World Trade Center and can?t
> remember who Osama bin Laden is. You forgot who had the weapons of
> mass destruction; us or them.
> * You believe that 40 million people without health insurance isn?t
> all that bad. You think that the solution is that they just better not
> get sick.
> * You think that your company enjoys paying most of your health
> premiums and they probably have never thought about eliminating your
> position.
> * You don?t know what the Homeland Security Department does, how much
> it costs your State Government, and you can't name all the colors on
> the color-coded alert chart.
> * You don?t live in the Northeast so the electrical blackout didn?t
> affect you but you think we should spend $18 billion on the electrical
> grid in Iraq.
> * You think the 150,000 American troops are having fun in Iraq and we
> should send more to protect the Iraqi's from the Iraqi's.
> * You think President Bush and the Republican Party deserves
> contributions from the pharmaceutical and health insurance industry
> and you don?t mind paying $200 for a bottle of prescription drugs.
> * You like seeing constant TV commercials for powerful, potentially
> dangerous prescription drugs because if you didn?t you wouldn?t know
> you were so sick and your doctor wouldn?t tell you about the drugs
> without you asking him.
> * You like President Bush?s tough talk and get a kick out of the
> expressions ?we?re gonna smoke 'em out and bring ?em ta justice?;
> we're gonna get ?em dead or alive?; ?bring ?em (the terrorists) on?;
> and we're gonna get ?dem folks who knocked down da buildings?, and you
> think this eloquent speaking, (prepared and reviewed by 100
> Presidential speechwriters) enhances our stature in the world.
> * You like to see President Bush getting off the shiny green
> helicopter with his two dogs and he always smiles and waves and holds
> hands with his wife and that seems nice.
> * Your main source of information is the Nightly News where you hear
> 20 minutes of short sound bites from any one Presidential candidate
> speaking for 15 seconds on the $600 billion being spent on Iraq,
> intermingled with 15 commercials for pharmaceutical products that
> ?speak? for 30 seconds each. You especially like the chemotherapy and
> rheumatoid arthriti commercials that show healthy people walking their
> dogs on beautiful green grass with beautiful sunsets with soothing
> music; and the commercials where people have been cured of their
> diarrehea and constipation and can get to work on time.
> * You voted for Bush's father when he won and you voted for Bush's
> father when he lost. And you voted for this current President Bush
> when he lost, but then you found out he won because of something in
> Florida. And it's easy to remember the name Bush, so you might as well
> vote for him again.
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