The Truth will prevail, But only if we Demand it from Congress!
9-11 Inside Job and Neocons Hacked 2004
Misconceptions about Republicans Platform
3 Facts That Could Determine This Election's
Outcome (If Enough People Know About Them)
Here are 3 Stunning facts that could not only determine the outcome
of this election, but with regard to the first two points, they
could determine the results of every election for years to come *if*
enough people are aware of them.
I want to keep this as simple and short as possible, so that the
people who need to read this actually do. And again, I encourage you
to share this information with as many people as you can, either by
recommending and commenting on this thread, by emailing these points
out and/or by posting a link to this thread on the appropriate
websites.
1)-Over 70% of our National Debt was created by just 3 Republican
presidents.
Go ahead, get out your calculator and add up debt by
president/party. Apparently the party that claims fiscally
responsibility thinks it's ok to borrow massive amounts of money
from foreign countries like China. Consider that we spend hundreds
of billions of dollars in interest payments on this debt each year.
That means more and more of your hard earned money is going to make
interest only payments on what is basically a Giant National Credit
Card. Not to mention the fact our debt/deficits are largely behind
the weakness of our dollar, which in turns makes gas more expensive
and creates other serious problems.
If you want to learn more about the National Debt, check out these
links:
http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/07/AR2008030702846_pf.html
http://zfacts.com/p/447.html (A running clock with the cost of the
war)
http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=news/business&id=5810114
2)-According to new research from Larry Bartels out of Princeton,
real middle class wage growth is double when a Democrat is president
compared to when a Republican is president.
"...Even more remarkable, the real incomes of working-poor
families...grew six times as fast when Democrats held the White
House. Only the incomes of affluent families were relatively
impervious to partisan politics, growing robustly under Democrats
and Republicans alike...":
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/27/magazine/27wwln-idealab-t.html?ref=magazine
Here is a short summary of this research:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/06/13/ST2008061302816.html
And here is a good, short audio interview with Larry Bartels:
http://youngturks.wmod.llnwd.net/a591/o1/4-25-08Bartels.wmv
3)-90% of Americans would pay less taxes under Obama's proposed tax
plan compared to McCain's.
This is according to the non-partisan Tax Policy Institute as
reported by CNN:
http://money.cnn.com/2008/06/11/news/economy/candidates_
_tpc/index.htm?cnn=yes
People making under $112,000 a year in individual (not household)
income would pay less taxes under Obama's plan.
By contrast, John McCain's tax cuts mostly benefit the top 10% of
Americans. Under McCain's plan, people making over 2.9 million
dollars in individual annual income would get almost a million
dollar tax break.
Conclusion: Countless millions of Americans vote Republican because
they believe they'll pay less taxes and that they'll have their
money spent more responsibly. As you can see, those beliefs are
directly contradicted by the facts. Of course we can choose to
ignore the facts and instead focus on which candidate is wearing a
flag pin (you ever notice that Hillary and McCain don't wear them?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vi5nbZvS9cg ) but I think we're a
smarter country than that.
PS---If you're not sure how to respond to those laughably bad,
factually inaccurate anti-Obama smear emails and or you want more
information on John McCain, here is a nice resource guide of
articles, videos and commentary:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x6410712
