October 11, 2004

I'm going to vote for John Kerry, not because I like the man, but because he seems to be the lesser of two evils or at least a relatively unknown quantity. It's a choice between the devil you know and a devil you don't yet know and I'm willing to take the chance that Kerry can grow into the job. Even then, I'm not counting on much in the way of improvements.

The alternative is guaranteed pigheaded stubbornness in the hands of the counterfeit cowboy from Crawford, a suburb of Waco, and the continued ruination of our nation at home and abroad.

Four years ago I voted for George W. Bush as the lesser of two evils, but then I learned to distrust a man who walks like he has two baseballs under his armpits and is ready for a quick-draw on anyone, or any nation, anytime he feels threatened. A man, who has led us into a disastrous pre-emptive invasion of a nation that was no threat to us and, as commander-in-chief, is responsible for war crimes that have not only killed thousands of innocent civilian Iraqi men, women, and children, but our own troops as well. The use of cluster bombs and depleted uranium is not only as illegal as torture, but DU is the cause of the illness and death of our own boys just as it was the cause of "Gulf War Syndrome" the first time we used it in Iraq before the decade of embargos and "food for oil" programs.

Meanwhile the Washington Post reports that the Office of Veterans Affairs is already overloaded with vets in line for health care and disability benefits and President Bush has cut the VA budget for 2005 in this crucial area. Support our troops.

I will not attempt to summarize all of George W. Bush's mistakes since people like William Rivers Pitt, the editors of The Nation magazine, Common Dreams and others have done it so well, but I will mention some things they seem to have missed like who mailed the anthrax, who ratted on Joe Wilson's wife, who attended Dick Cheny's energy conference where seizing Iraq's oil was - without a doubt - discussed openly, or whatever happened to the "roadmap to peace" that seems to have flown out the window along with the promise not to touch Social Security money.

With an estimated population of 293 million, and thousands of colleges and universities throughout the land, what's the probability that the two presidential candidates each went to the same school and each belonged to the same highly secretive Skull & Bones society? The odds of this happening by accident are phenomenal.

Let's face it folks, we live under an oligarchy of the rich and powerful pretending to be a democracy, many pretending that they are the selected representatives of the people when they actually bought their positions with raw cash and a history of party favors. And the United States of America, the land of the free and the home of the brave, has become a military/industrial empire with more than 725 large military installations in more than 70 percent of the world. We are also the inventors, producers, and suppliers of the largest inventory of "weapons of mass destruction" the world has ever seen. We maintain "the peace" by selling protection to other nations just as the Mafia strong armed insurance to local dry cleaners and candy stores in its first footholds.

What we don't gain by threat and intimidation, we buy with taxpayer money garnered today or borrowed against the future. The $88.6 billion held by the State Department's "Unconditional Gift Fund" that somehow disappeared during 2003 is still unaccounted for. We don't know where it went. No answer from the State Department, Treasury, my local Congress critters, or the media watchdogs on that one. When asked, they just clam up.

In their campaigns, both Bush and Kerry have clammed up on the fact that the national debt his risen $1.6 trillion since Bush took office in January of 2001 or that this run-up has amounted to $555 billion in fiscal 2003 and $596 billion in fiscal 2004 that just ended September 30th. The debt presently stands at $7.379 trillion with the comical debt limit set at $7.384 trillion.

Since May 23, 2003, less than one year and a half ago when the debt limit was raised from $6.4 trillion, George W. Bush has run up the national debt $979 billion. And he has done so without a peep from the media, the fiscal watchdogs, or his opponent for President.

Does this silence mean that Kerry condones the debt and is nothing more than another borrowholic who will do the same? It sure looks like it.

Two comments that Senator Kerry made recently disturb me. During the debates, when each candidate was trying to prove who is best suited to be commander-in-chief, Senator Kerry said that there would eventually be 14 new military bases in Iraq. That's certainly enough to extend the empire and attack other oil rich Middle Eastern nations while creating more hate and legions of terrorists. Hail the empire.

Secondly, and before the debates began, Senator Kerry accused Bush of squandering the $5.3 trillion surplus the democrats had left him. This is a direct reference to a Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report projected from the fiscal 2000 surplus of $237 billion and delivered to the Bush administration on January 31, 2001.

I've shown elsewhere how the federal government hides or does not divulge the fact that these surpluses come from a combination of income tax and entitlement overcharges with Social Security or our retirement money leading the pack.

The CBO "testimony" was an estimate of how far these overcharges would go if the economy remained sound, the government continued to live within its means or balance the budget, and the Bush tax cut did not take place. Even with the tax cut, there was still about a $400 billion income tax surplus for the government to enjoy over the next ten years as well as about $3.5 trillion stolen from our retirement and other entitlement money.

Most of the democrats have been crying about the loss of revenue from the Bush tax cuts and they want that money back.

Do you see why I don't expect much from Kerry if he wins? Sad as it may be, our only hope is that the devil we don't know might be better than the devil we've got. Besides, I'm tired of cowboys and the wild west mentality.

(Editor's Note: I refuse to vote for evil of any kind, for any reason. Many people did that last time, and we may never see the end of it without incredible suffering for our own people, as well as many around the globe. Your "vote" only gives this evil your approval. Why vote at all? What would happen if we all just decided to say "NO", and stop producing all the things they use to destroy us? Who is John Gault? Isn't it about time "Atlas Shrugged"? Click here for more information. MamaLiberty)

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