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Fermium Man says, "It's no wonder the dumbass Communists lost the Cold War to Reagan."
Well, the Communist Party USA has put out a list of the top ten reasons not to re-elect good old GW. Click here to read the article. What's really disturbing is how similar these are to regular Democrat criticism of the man. Bolded are the points the Commies make, and in regular print is my refutation.
1. Bush is destroying workers rights and outsourcing jobs instead of protecting the right to organize and creating new jobs rebuilding schools, bridges, roads and hospitals.
Since the Commies neglect to provide demonstrations as to how Bush is destroying workers rights through outsourcing jobs, we'll stick with the outsourcing jobs comment in general.
While I'm not a big fan of outsourcing, it's absolutely ridiculous to assert that outsourcing is an evil and destructive practice. Say, for example, that I own a company that produces paper plates. In my city, there are other three other factories that produce paper plates, just like I do. I pay my paper plate manufacturers $13.00 an hour, while my opponents pay them $9.00. Because I pay my workers more, the cost of doing business goes up and I pass the higher prices onto the consumer to save profits. Consumers buy my opponents' paper plates, and I'm quickly losing revenue.
In order to boost my income, I decide to move my business to a foreign country, where I can hire very cheap help and pay them $2.50 an hour. Because I can pay them so cheaply, I ship my product back to the States for much lower prices. Thus, my business expands, people are buying paper plates at cheap prices, and the wheels of capitalism continue to turn.
However, of course, there is a downside to this as there is to everything: I had to fire my workers in the U.S. They are now without jobs.
On one hand, the general economy is improving because paper plates are so cheap and my business is expanding. On the other hand, the local economy is being fucked over because I fired so many people. All in all, outsourcing helps more than it hurts; while many directly suffer from outsourcing, and while it's difficult to see the long-term benefits, they're clearly there. Consumers nation-wide are buying cheap disposable paper plates and have more of their own equally disposable income to spend on other products, thus helping other businesses and keeping the wheels turning.
However, I would like to see a tariff placed on all imported goods to convince companies to stay in the U.S. This is a slightly more iffy topic, and it wasn't an incredibly vitriolic opener on my part. For that, I suppose I should apologize. I let down my dear readers.
2. Bush is privatizing Medicare, Social Security and public education with phony reforms instead of enacting health care for all, protecting retirement funds and full funding for public education through college.
I love how they used the term "phony reform," as if the reform was a fake and Bush just totally made it up. Bush hasn't privatized Medicare, Social Security, or public education; he's been trying to. The only thing is, people are fucktards and don't see the benefits of privatizing organizations.
If we privatized health care entirely, companies would have a new consumer target: the poor. Medicare and Medicaid target the poor and the elderly, and thus, insurance companies can't make money off them. If they could, they'd be at each other's throats to out-do one another. Prices for insurance would fall drastically. Liberals are so fond of claiming that drug companies hike the price of drugs; if these prices can afford to go down, then why wouldn't insurance companies lower them to make a substantial profit off the poor?
Social security and retirement funds work virtually the same way. If there's competition in the market, prices will fall and the consumer benefit as human greed drives the engine of prosperity.
Liberals get a hard-on every time "more money for education" is mentioned. Education is funded enough. The funds are being misapplied through pointless classes, after-school activities such as sports, and incompetent teachers who release fucktards into the workforce.
3. Bush is bankrupting the Federal Government with giant tax cuts for the very rich and super-funds to the military instead of securing the budget for human needs by taxing the rich and spending on human needs.
In other words, "We aren't demonizing the rich enough! They don't deserve the money that they earned!"
"Giant" tax cuts? As I recall, the rich got a .5-1.5% tax cut, while the lowest tax bracket got a 5% tax cut. So the super-rich get $250,000 back, and so that money doesn't go to the bloated federal government to give it yet more power and influence over our lives. I say good; politicians need a limited budget, and redistribution of wealth is unconstitutional.
4. Bush is rolling back civil rights gains instead of enforcing and expanding affirmative action to end racism in all areas of life.
Ah, yes, affirmative action. The idea that because a group of people were oppressed for 500 years, their descendants deserve help and reparations.
The most obvious question to ask is: Why? If they're no longer being oppressed, then affirmative action makes no sense and is unconstitutional because it discriminates based on race. Bush did the black community a favor by killing affirmative action; now they have to achieve something based on merit.
5. Bush is curtailing women’s rights and choice by undermining Roe v. Wade instead of upholding the right to choice and ending the gender wage gap.
By "undermining Roe v. Wade," they mean "banning partial-birth abortions." Ah, yes, because fully-formed babies have no rights as long as they're still in Mommy's uterus! Maybe I missed the logic train, but what the fuck?
The "gender wage gap" is bullshit. Men get paid more for doing more difficult jobs. It's that simple; a secretary is not paid as much as a welder because welding is more dangerous and more difficult.
6. Bush is abusing immigrant workers in low-wage jobs instead of providing a clear path to citizenship and equal rights.
Yes, because apparently, illegal immigrant workers have the same rights as US immigrants because they're trying to work. If you come here illegally, and you're treated like shit, I'm sorry. You don't have rights unless you're here legally.
Bush hasn't "abused" immigrants in low-wage jobs; that's all illegal immigrants are qualified to work in! You can't fire a US citizen and put an illegal Mexican behind a fucking computer. That undermines the rights of the US citizen whose ass just got canned.
7. Bush is exploiting and ruining the environment by protecting corporate polluters instead of conserving our natural resources for the public good.
By "natural resources for the public good," they mean the miles of unused nothern wasteland known as ANWAR (sp?). Yes, the mating patterns of the porcupine carribu are more important than creating thousands of jobs for US workers by allowing companies to drill for pil there. Remember, in a liberal's priority list, people (especially American people) come last.
8. Bush’s war in Iraq is a disaster for our security and economy. He is pushing for more preemptive wars and for first stritke nuclear military policy instead of negotiations and cooperation utilizing the UN.
Really? A disaster for our security? Intuition, if not logic, tells us that ridding the world of a murderous dictator bent on acquiring weapons of mass destruction from North Korea would only make us safer in the future, provided we don't slice our military in half like John Kerry and the other liberals would have us do. And we all know how well UN negotiations pay off; I mean, look at how the UN is trying to resolve the Palestinian-Israeli crisis: by telling Israel that building a wall to protect itself is illegal and monstrous, but taking no action against Palestinian suicide bombers.
Let's also not forget how often pussy UN inspectors, backed up by no military force whatsoever, got shafted several times trying to inspect Iraq's weapon stockpiles.
Yes, the UN is certainly a bastion of protection and accomplishment.
9. Bush is denying civil liberties and free speech in the name of fighting terrorism instead of repealing the USA Patriot Act and helping cities, towns and states fund firefighters and police.
Ask yourself: How many of your civil rights were denied to you by the passing of the Patriot Act? If you wanted to protest Bush, what couldn't you have done after the Patriot Act was passed?
The Patriot Act simply repeals the rights of suspected terrorists based on logic and profiling; what the hell is wrong with that? So Muslims with expired visas are under heavy surveillance. I suppose that really is worse than Chicago being hit by a dirty bomb, or another set of planes crashing into yet another US landmark.
10. Bush discriminates against Gays and Lesbians with a Constitutional Amendment instead of expanding civil rights and liberties for all.
I like the two-parter; Bush not only discriminates against gays and lesbians, but also does not expand civil liberties for all. Tell me, are there more inane rights the Supreme Court can pull out of its ass that we didn't even know we had? Can I have a right to kill people I don't like based on religious grounds?
But as for gays and lesbians, the Commies have finally got Bush by the nads there. I don't see anything wrong with gay marriage, other than the "ick" factor. They got 1/10. Hooray! Now, if only Kerry can get a 90% approval rating from the Shawn-man... oh, wait, he has no stances on any issues, so I can't even evaluate him! Which, by default, puts him at 0%.
Good game, newbie liberals.
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