Rebuttal To Bill Shipp Editorial

By Jeff Goolsby, Editor

      I am amazed that you are supporting George W. Bush and saying that you do not know John Kerry at all. It would be almost impossible to find anyone who would do a worse job than Bush.
      If you do not know what John Kerry proposes to do for this country, you have not been paying attention. Also, go to www.johnkerry.com and examine his proposals.
      Apparently, you have been listening to and reading lies about Kerry similar to the Republican lies that were said about Bill Clinton. Republicans investigated Clinton and the Whitewater land development for almost his entire two terms in office and spent $75,000,000 of your and my tax money for nothing. The Whitewater investigation regarding Bill Clinton could have and should have been completed in two days.
      Republicans then hired numerous women to come forward and make false claims about him, plus hired Monica Lewinsky to seduce him. Most likely, the Whitewater land development failure was caused by the Reagan/Volcker increasing mortgage interest rates to 17.5%, which was beyond the reach of home buyers and prevented the intended sale of lots.
      The standard Republican presidential economic agenda is to start a depression scam at the beginning of their term by increasing interest rates and phony money shortage then blame it on Democrats. Then start an economic recovery near the end of the third year so they can claim in their re-election campaign that they "saved us from the Democrats". If you doubt this standard agenda, check the records.
      Instead of the usual standard Republican depression scam, they had a new trick in the works. Bush and cronies knew that the Republican 1998 repeal of the Franklin D. Roosevelt anti-monopolistic law would destroy a huge number of jobs and that the impending terrorist attack combined with refusing to place military guards on commercial airline flights would destroy a huge number of jobs.
      These two items totaled about 3,000,000 lost jobs along with placing the airline industry in bankruptcy status. Plus the terrorist attack could provide Bush an excuse to become a "War Hero" president by implementing their economic recovery schedule near the end of the third year and get Bush "elected".
      John Kerry examines facts carefully before making decisions, which is exactly what we need in a president instead of Bush's system of making decisions then manipulating facts to fool the public into believing he did what was necessary.
      Plus, history proves that the economy is always better and a larger percentage of workers have jobs when a Democrat is president. Republicans always have depressions (AKA news media says recessions) and recoveries during their presidency, which of course is pre scheduled.
      Furthermore, I can not imagine anyone with a sound mind supporting an unconvicted felon, con artist, and bungler like George W. Bush for president of the United States of America. This is especially true after the Duefler report that proved conclusively that Bush deliberately deceived Democrats in Congress, including Kerry and Edwards, and the American public. He did this with manipulated intelligence to support his illegal invasion and obsession to kill Saddam Hussein, two assassination attempts while starting his invasion.       Kerry and Edwards voted to provide negotiating power to the president as has been customary in the past but did not vote to actually vote to commence a war.
      One commission investigation report that has been kept very quite, says that Bush was covered up with intelligence reports and warnings by numerous countries that the terrorist were about to do what they did on 9/11. Meanwhile, Bush was spending 40% of his time vacationing on his ranch at Crawford Texas.
       One investigation revealed that, despite the warnings, the Air National Defense and the Air Controllers were peculiarly on maximum "Relax" status instead of maximum "Alert" status when the 9/11 terrorist attack occurred. Their planes can be in the air in 5 minutes upon notice when they are on alert and can fly 1875 miles per hour, that is 31.5 miles per minute. They could have intercepted the terrorist planes and forced them to change course or shoot them down if they refused and prevented their attack on the buildings.
      It is obvious that Bush had an obsession to kill Saddam Hussein before he started his campaign for president, which he did at the urging of his pal Kenneth Lay, Enron CEO. Bush wanted to elevate himself from the family "Black Sheep" status and prove that he was smarter and could do more than his daddy.
      Bush has damaged our worldwide reputation, created extreme hatred of the U.S. and increased the terrorist risk to us a tremendous amount by bullying our friends and invading Iraq.
      By the end of the 2005 Federal budget, which Bush controls, our Federal debt will be increased about $2 trillion dollars in only 4 years. Reagan increased our Federal debt $2 trillion dollars in 8 years. If Bush wins the election and continues his tax cutting for the "Fat Cats" and expanding the government and expense, he will probably increase the Federal debt another $3 trillion dollars, making a total increase of $5 trillion in 8 years.
      Bush paid $333 billion dollars (with borrowed money) interest on the 2002 Federal debt, welfare to people with excess money. Republicans complain about welfare to people who are unable to work or too lazy, but that was only $16.5 billion in 2002. I have not heard any Republicans complaining about the $333 Billion taxpayer cost.
      I have a file almost 7 inches thick recording Bush's scams and bunglings before and after stealing the presidency. Please visit my website, www.jeffgoolsby.net, and learn some real facts before you recommend a highly skilled con-artist for president.