Re: And you say Bush is dumb.....

notbob wrote:

"The only difference between the Democrats and the Repulicans is: The
Democrats will take you money and give it to those who have not earned it.
The Repulicans will take your money and keep it for themselves." --nb

This is a false argument. Yes, democrats do care about social justice.
They'd like (among other things) to try to end poverty and ignorance
using education, and yes, even to spend a little money to alleviate
real misery. But the *amounts* of money spent on social welfare, over the years, is a pittance.

During the cold war years the R's used to wine piteously about all the
money we were wasting on "foreign aid." But we hardly spent a nickel
on any real aid. We spent all the money on arms, propping up anti-communist dictators all over the world. We're still paying a price
for that, in Afganistan, Guatemala and all over Africa.

The real spending, since the Viet Nam war, has always occurred during
R presidencies. But it all went to the military industrial corporations
and the oil companies (run by R's). They're the ones who increase
spending, usually accompanied by simultaneous tax cuts. They don't like
to pay the rent, it seems.
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