In article >, Hank wrote:

> Here in the U.S., 50 million people have no health care,

This is a bogus figure because it includes people who simply have a gap
in coverage. For instance, I had a gap in coverage when I went from one
employer to another. I then counted as not having health care for the
full year. Pretty bogus. Also counted are people who on their own decide
they would rather have the money and pay for insurance even though they
could afford to.

> and
> if you look at infant mortality rates, you see countries with
> a socialist government with the lowest rates and a high quality
> of life.

Quality of life is a problem in the USA because there is a constant
influx of people willing to work for very low wages and we have a system
that basically gives us very little time for our own lives. It's work
hard until you die. I'd love to have a month off each year. If the choice
was the status quo and gasoline taxed to $5 a gallon but I got a month
off every year, I'd go for the later.

> I suppose you're not concerned with bu$h's record spending,
> deficits, or his sale of our economy to Communist China,
> either.

We have a one party system. The differences amount to nothing more than
words. The sale of our economy to Communist China became wholesale while
Clinton was in office and has only continued. In fact most of the changes
that allowed this occured under Clinton. Both of our so called parties
support this nonsense because their money supply supports it.

It's the real treason here. Acting in the interest of lobbiests and
campiagn donors instead of doing what is right for the nation.

> Fairly taxing the wealthiest top 5% percent, has nothing to
> do with your bizarre "removing incentives" rant. You're not
> making any sense at all.

If you look at who actually pays the taxes in this nation I would say the
top 5% of wage earners is currently paying 53% of the income taxes while
earning 32% of all income. The top 50% of wage earners are currently
paying 96% of the income taxes while earning 86% of all income.

Could you point out what isn't fair here and in which direction?

> If bu$h continues to export our jobs,

This started before shrub and only continues under him unchecked.

> and cut job training
> and education funding, that's exactly what will happen.
> We should stop giving government handouts to billion dollar
> corporations before we eliminate school lunches for poor
> kids. Greed is ugly.

Democrats have had control of the schools for decades. They decided to
use the schools to increase government power and promote the status quo.
The republicans don't fix this because it's not in their intrests to, in
fact it is also in their interests to make sure people are not educated.

Corporations get money under democrat admins as well. So do foreign
countries. You just don't hear about it as much.

We have one effective party in this nation. The difference between Ds and
Rs is an illusion, a perception to keep the populace bickering back and
forth while the elites continue to control everything unchecked.

I'll sum up how the two parties are the same with a quote:

"We know we can't count on the French. We know we can't count on the
Russians, We know that Iraq is a danger to the United States, and we
reserve the right to take pre-emptive action whenever we feel it's in
our national interest." -Sen. John Kerry, CNN, 1997.