Top 10 Ways We Got Hijacked By Conservatives

Had enough of 'conservative' rip-off artists in Washington? Here's a list of the worst offenses we've seen since 2001.



1) The Bush administration has created the biggest budget deficit, debt, and trade imbalance ever while cutting funding for domestic needs like education, Medicare, and Medicaid.

2) The administration’s tax cuts favor the rich, no matter how you look at it. About 87 percent of tax benefits go to the 14 percent of households with incomes above $100,000. Households with incomes below $75,000 -- three-quarters of all households -- get just 5 percent of those benefits.

3) Bush signed the largest corporate tax break package in two decades, $136 billion. After World War II, corporations paid half the cost of running the federal government. Today, they pay 7%.

4) The price of gas doubled under Bush. The top oil companies earned $25 billion during the quarter that Hurricane Katrina struck compared to $50 billion for all of 2004. Former Exxon-Mobil, CEO, Lee Raymond got a $400 million exit package.

5) The Republican Congress has voted against every minimum wage increase, except the one linked to getting rid of the estate tax for the rich. The real income of the average American household has fallen five years in a row.

6) House Republicans chopped education programs by $14.3 billion -- the highest cuts ever. College tuition has increased 34 percent since Bush took office.

7) Since 2001, average monthly health care premiums have risen from $342 to $603. Annual deductibles have doubled. Today 46 million Americans (including 8.4 million children) have no health insurance, an increase of 6 million since Bush took office.

8) The Senate approved the biggest bankruptcy law in a quarter of a century. Republicans voted AGAINST protecting senior citizens, the seriously ill, military members, veterans, and employees.

9) In 1983, the Greenspan Commission put Social Security measures in place that created a $1.7 trillion surplus in the system. This administration borrowed against and cut that to $153 billion while blaming citizens for not dying young enough.

10) In 2005, Americans paid $4.3 billion in withdrawal fees at ATM’s and $16 billion to credit card companies in late fees alone. Republicans have suggested no remedies.

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1)  Trade Deficit is not the presidents fault.  If you really have a problem with it check every lable for "Made in USA" Before you buy it, as long as your willing to pay 500 dollars a shirt you can find it.  While budget and debt is under his juristiction and what happened under his juristitiction is his fault and I won't shield him the blame for it.  The Budget has been nothing but growing for the past two decades, and was beyond the point we could actually pay the interest on it since the 1990s.

2)  There are various minor problems I have about the details of Bush's tax relief efforts.  However, Bush is an avid preacher of the trickle down theory and he told us he would do exactly this when he ran for office in 2000.  Stop acting so fucking surprised that he cut taxes the exact way he said he would.

3)  "Corporate taxes" are a lie.  Corporation's simply pass the costs onto the consumer and has us pay their taxes as well as ours.  The biggest "Corporate tax break" that Bush really even brought in was the temporary suspension of "double taxation" of dividends, which has I believe passed.  And I completely agree with that detail anyways.

4)  Yep gas prices have gone up.  Thank you Captain obvious.  Without you I never would have noticed my wallet being so much thinner when I sit down.  Gas prices have been rising very little over the 90's and the gas companies still made a fortune.  Gas companies are overregulated and the regulations lead to over abuse.  Gas Stations actually can't even legally drop their prices because they have to notify surrounding competitors and then they can never be more than $.05 deviation from nearby competitors.  This comes from the old gas "price wars" some time ago.  And yes, did you read what dammage Katrina did to the Gulf of mexico and all of our southern refineries.  The companies gave an estimate about when the prices would be dropping again, and many people myself included believed it was too optimistic of a view.  However they seem to be right on time with the pricing.  And yes, CEO's make big money, any other breaking news for us?

5)  Have you looked at the Republican Political platform lately.  Do they ever claim that they will vote to raise minimum wage.  I don't want minimum wage raised by Congress anyways.  I think if there is a minimum wage it whould only be done by state.  Most states have their own minimum wage anyways, so why bother with the fed at all?  Get the fuck out of my life.  The states can handle it and the fed obviously doesn't have to.  And it would give people the learning oprotunity to see what competion really means when states have to compete for jobs with eachoter just like countries have for the past 30 years.

6)  34%?  That has got to be an inflated number.  My college has raised 7% since I started and It's a proprietary school at that.  If you really want to blame something on college tuition raising, blame it on the fact that people still pay and the fact that further education is getting people less and less far in the world as more and more people get it.  A bubble in the college industry is going to pop in the next decade or so and then you are going to see some weird shit with education in general.  On education programs they are guilty of that, and I disagree with many things about how the education system is run in the US and where the money goes.  Everyone does, and no two people can really agree on a good system to replace the one we have.  Feel free to give us your other worldly knowledge and free us from the tyrany of the modern education system when ever you feel like your knowlege is fit for us simple minds as the whole nation suddenly falls on their knees and admits you were right all along and we should have come to you in the first place.

7)  Yep, can't really argue with those numbers.  I can probably find different numbers but it wouldn't be much better.  I still haven't seen a program to fix the issue that I agree with yet however.  I don't believe in socializing the healthcare system, I don't care about adults without health benifits and insurance, I am one of them and I just don't care.  I do believe we can do something for children however, I just haven't seen a satisfactory solution presented by any politican.  Once again let us all bow down to your knowlege and hear your brillian answer that will change all our lives, and we will all admit you are the smartest person in the country and we should have listened to you years ago because nobody else ever thought of your solution and failed to implement it before.

8)  Yep, guilty as charged.  Can't really defend that one.  Overall that might not have been the intention but it sure as hell was the result and thats what matters.

9)  Every administration has been borrowing from Social Security since it's inception.  Because as it was created it only makes money.  Social security is no longer as it was created however and was all but distroyed by LBJ and made worse over the decades by missmanagement and expansions of what it covered.  You want to save SS, just turn back the clock and make it once again what FDR created it as and stop anyone from stealing from it.  Thats all that really has to be done.  I would still disagree with it for what it is but at least I couldn't argue with it being a disaster area of administration and a horror story of govenment intervention.

10)  UM...How can you really blame the govenment for ATM machine withdrawl fees?  and Republicans have given solutions to credit card company fees.  It's called telling people not to get credit cards and teaching them basic accounting and economics in school.  If you have deep credit card debt chances are it's your own stupidity for being a hood rich piece of white/black/yellow/red trash.  Be smart with your finances and it wouldn't be so bad.  It's not the govenment's job to get you out of a hole you dug yourself into.  If Americans are really that stupid, which they seem to be today, they deserve every economic problem their bad financial decisions bring them.  Welcome to life, make a good decision or a bad decision, but make your decision and live with it.  Don't blame me for your fuckups.