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February 2, 2005
As President Bush prepares to deliver the State of the Union address this evening, Americans should keep in mind his empty rhetoric and broken promises from previous speeches. Bush has promised everything from greater nuclear security and homeland protections to boundless job creation and decreased deficits – none of which has materialized. Tonight, as the president tells us that "freedom is on the march" and that privatizing Social Security is the right way to go, American taxpayers should say to themselves: "Beware."
- Bush promised that massive tax cuts for the wealthy would create jobs, increase wages and pay for themselves – it never happened. The president pushed through trillions of dollars in tax cuts that failed to create good paying jobs, shifted more of the tax burden from the wealthy to the middle class and created huge budget deficits that threaten future growth. Americans should resist his efforts to now make these tax cuts permanent.
- Bush promised the war in Iraq would protect us from WMD and help defeat terrorism with little cost to our armed forces or our taxpayers – the exact opposite occurred. No weapons of mass destruction were ever found in Iraq. The country is now a terrorist breeding ground. With more than 1,400 soldiers killed, thousands wounded, and billions of dollars in taxpayer money spent so far, Americans should be asking the president for a specific plan on what comes next.
- Bush promised he would bring the country and the world together but we are now more divided than ever. Bush sells all of his wrong policy decisions as ways to bring together Americans and the global community. But policies born out of ideology and sold through misleading means will never bring people together. Americans and our global allies expect straight and honest policy deliberation and options, not manipulation and coercion.
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