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The Butcher of Clevelandâs Budget Strikes Again! Or Prepares To, Anyway ...
U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich hit the ground running in Portland on Friday, stepping off the Downeaster train from New Hampshire ready to rally Mainers onto his budding Democratic presidential campaign. EFL and relevance Kucinich said the nation was developing a system of "health poverty," where rising health care costs drive the poor and unemployed away from receiving treatment they need. He said he supports a single-payer universal health care system that would provide coverage for various procedures, such as alternative medicines, vision care and long-term health. Kucinich said the money Americans spend on health care annually is already enough to subsidize a universal health care system. Depends. Whoâs doing the paying again, the poor or the rich? It may be quite the case that under a assets-based income tax the rich pay far more than the poor (when they have to pay at all), and that a flat tax would in fact cost the liberals the massive sums of cash they need to simultaneously waste and pretend they havenât, when it doesnât force the poor to pay a sum they canât just because everyone else pays the same ... oh wait, it does both. Lookit the Meiji Restoration. On Iraq, Kucinich said the United States needs to "get our men and women who are targets out of Iraq." He said the United States should turn the reins of rebuilding the country over to the United Nations for allocating oil and construction contracts. Just you wait ... them Islamosâll be targets once again ... one of these days ... *snark!* In any case, others here with abilities tenfold of mine have savaged the UN far beyond my meager abilties — theyâre the ones to go to if youâre a card-carrying UN masochist in need of your daily dose of humiliation and verbal abuse :P He went on to blame the Bush administration for using the Sept. 11 attacks as a false motivation for war with Iraq. He said a "pall of fear has been dropping over this country by an administration that exploited the 9/11 attacks." Fear? What fear? Do you see fear here? Do you see liberals being hounded out of their homes and beaten on the streets, their flags burned and their SUVs torched, violence publically threatened and their deaths hoped for? Sounds more like something theyâd do ... [Fred] Bloom said the candidateâs conviction and passion is something that is rarely seen in current politics and something that could draw disaffected voters to his campaign. He said Kucinichâs ideology sets him apart and makes him the best candidate to defeat President Bush. Actually, this makes him the least likely. The one most likely will be the one who simultaneously presents himself as partisan and centrist. To nominate Kucinch for 2004 would only guarantee the Democratsâ loss. By the way, cookies for anyone who spots the non-Iraq foreign policy reference! Posted by: Lu Baihu 2003-09-02 |
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