let me see if I got this straight...
Nov. 3rd, 2004 08:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
acroyearwe have horrendous national debt and the budget deficit is expected to increase due to military war-on-terror expenditures, so we'll introduce even more tax cuts???
we love our national parks and wildlife refuges and understand how important the diversity is to the ecology of the planet, so we'll give corporations unrestricted access to development and reduce pollution controls to nothing???
we are educated people, aware of the needs to have scientific thinking and mathematics be priority features of our children's development, so we'll cut back even more on schools, switch to standardized tests that only increase rote memorization, and introduce creationism into biology classes as if it was science???
we hate prejudice and discrimination in any form it comes in, so we'll ban even the possibility of same-sex marriages thereby reducing between 7 and 10 percent of the population to second-class citizenship???
we're proud of the work done by the American hard-working family, so we'll do nothing as the job that supports them and their community gets outsourced overseas???
did I get all that right?
just checking.
we love our national parks and wildlife refuges and understand how important the diversity is to the ecology of the planet, so we'll give corporations unrestricted access to development and reduce pollution controls to nothing???
we are educated people, aware of the needs to have scientific thinking and mathematics be priority features of our children's development, so we'll cut back even more on schools, switch to standardized tests that only increase rote memorization, and introduce creationism into biology classes as if it was science???
we hate prejudice and discrimination in any form it comes in, so we'll ban even the possibility of same-sex marriages thereby reducing between 7 and 10 percent of the population to second-class citizenship???
we're proud of the work done by the American hard-working family, so we'll do nothing as the job that supports them and their community gets outsourced overseas???
did I get all that right?
just checking.
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Date: 2004-11-03 10:03 am (UTC)He, *they*, played to the fears... "bibles will be banned, gays marrying in churches, terrorists knocking on your door, etc. Meanwhile, he and his rich buddies reap what they can (as AOL lays off 5% of it's workforce, I'm guessing, to ship the jobs over to India)
... and don't get me started on the whole evangelical bit... one theory says that they all figure if they can set up the middle-east right, they can trigger "Rapture" and have god comming back at their choosing.
Oh joy...