7 reasons to support George W. Bush

[asianmaddness56]

3. George W. Bush has engineered a flourishing economy.

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U.S. National Debt Clock

Good Game?

[KevinFinnerty]

Exactly! Or the daily kos for that matter.

I think the whole "anti bush" crap is more of a "fashionable" thing. Its "cool" to hate bush. I mean teenagers blindly follow this crap. They make these strong opinions yet get all their info from comedy central shows and green day songs. Im sure a good bit of these anti bush people fall in that category. Not all (read this people), but many.

I'm definitely a Democrat, but you're right on the money with this point. I'd like to see somebody go on the street with a camera Jay Leno-style, go up to random people of voting age, and first ask them what they thought about Bush. Then (ostensibly after they've stated how much they hate him), ask them a whole bunch of basic questions about the government like, "What's the Vice President' name?" or "What's the Speaker of the House's name?" or "How many Supreme Court Justices are there?" or "Name a bill that Congress has passed under George Bush." I think the results of such an impromptu quiz would just how little the average person knows about why they bash Bush (although there are certainly PLENTY of good reasons to do so). Oh, and just to further illustrate how clueless many Bush bashers are, at the end of the interview you could ask each person if they voted in the last election.

Now, as far as national healthcare goes, I'm not exactly the most gung-ho supporter of it, but I definitely see its merits and I disagree with people who say things like, "why should I have to pay for somebody else's healthcare?" The truth is, taxpayers already pay a lot of money towards things that benefit others but not necessarily themselves.

Some of our taxes go towards public schools, and you don't get to avoid paying just because you've already graduated. Other parts of our taxes go towards roads, and you don't get to avoid paying just because you don't have a car. Hell, in a lot of cities some of your taxes goes toward building gaudy monstrosities of stadiums so groups of multi-millionaires can play games inside them (and this is coming from a big sports fan).

If people are fine with their taxes going toward these things even if they don't take advantage of them, what is so unfathomable about putting money toward a national healthcare system? I mean, one could argue that privatizing the education industry would result in a higher standard of education (more incentive for teachers to become more qualified, more resources would be devoted to developing better textbooks, etc.), but I think most people would agree that the benefit of making education "free" to everyone offsets the possible improvements that privatization would cause.

To me, it stands to reason that the things all taxpayers should be forced to chip in for should be those that are closest to being true [B]necessities[B] (like the police), as opposed to being [B]luxuries[B] (like ridiculously expensive sports stadiums or, to a much much lesser extent, roads). I think it's hard to refute that healthcare is more of a necessity than just about anything else, even education.