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    Friday, June 09, 2006

    Who Wins In This Election Will Make A Big Difference in My Life

    Who wins in this election will make a big difference in my life.

    U.S. refuses to sign the Kyoto Protocol, the 1997 global warming accord. The President cited ‘incomplete state of scientific knowledge’. Yet the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, an international body of thousands of scientists assembled by the U. N. and the World Meteorological Organization held that global temperatures were dramatically on the rise and that this increase was, to an unspecified degree, the result of human-induced emissions.

    The E. P. A announced it was going to withdraw a new standard for arsenic in drinking water that had been developed during the Clinton years. The reason given by the president was that “the new standard had been irresponsibly rushed through” Actually Congress had directed the EPA to establish a new standard and had authorized $2.5 million a year for studies from 1997 through 2000. After a period of public grumbling the administration agreed that the 10-parts-per-million was justified.

    The White House claimed it was necessary to drill for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to “secure America’s energy needs.” The U S Geological Survey noted that the amount of oil that might be found there would cover up slightly more than two years’ worth of oil consumption.

    The United States took the initiative in organizing the United Nations and used its influence to establish its purpose as the preservation of peace among the nations of the world report regarding the hydraulic fracturing to produce oil and gas the E P A stated that the process could contaminate ground water supplies in excess of the federal drinking water standards. A week after making the report to Congressional staff members

    Labor Department revises Overtime pay regulations.

    Administration pushes for opening government lands to oil drilling.

    U.S. criticizes the United Nations as well as friends and former allies in Europe with belittling words of disdain and scorn.

    U. S. diverts funds and soldiers from war on terrorist Al Qaeda.

    President Bush leads people to believe Iraq may attack us at any time and his regime must be deposed even though some of the evidence has already been proven false.

    General Accounting Office said “The path we are on is imprudent and un sustainable. Deficits do matter, especially when they are large, structural and growing.” The deficit for 2004 is expected to be over $480 billion, contrasted with a surplus of $236 billion in 2000.

    On February 7, 2002, President Bush wrote in a memo: “Our nation recognizes that this new paradigm—ushered in not by us, but by terrorists—requires new thinking in the law of war.” This generated a memos from the Justice Department that no U. S. law could limit a President’s right to order torture or otherwise abuse prisoners . A Pentagon lawyer stated : “Any efforts by Congress to regulate the interrogation of unlawful combatants would violate the Constitution’s sole vesting of the Commander-in-Chief authority in the President.”

    The gap between the rich and the poor in the U.S. is growing more rapidly than in any other industrialized country.

    A U. S. Conference of Mayors survey found that less than one quarter of surveyed cities have received any of the promised homeland security funds designed to assist state and local “first responders” such as police and firefighters.

    The democrats created 20 million jobs in eight years, but 3 million have been lost since the republicans took office.

    Between September 11, 2001 and December the E. P. A. assured us that the air quality in the vicinity of the World Trade Center was safe. In August 2003 the Inspector General’s office revealed that EPA data did not support their assurances and that the EPA press releases were being drafted or doctored by the White House, intent on reopening Wall Street.

    Greenspan: “If we have promised more than the economy has the ability to deliver, as I fear we have, we must recalibrate our public programs so that pending retirees have time to adjust through other channels” He means that unless some changes are made in the programs.

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