State of DisUnion

Wednesday, February 02, 2005, President George Delano Bush, gave his State of the Union address.
The following are the parts I found "entertaining".

America's prosperity requires restraining the spending appetite of the federal government. I welcome the bipartisan enthusiasm for spending discipline.

Interesting statement from someone who added a huge new entitlement program (prescription drugs under Medicare), added an enormous new Cabinet-level department (Homeland Security) and failed to veto ONE spending bill.

My budget substantially reduces or eliminates more than 150 government programs that are not getting results, or duplicate current efforts, or do not fulfill essential priorities.

If they are ineffective or duplicate efforts, why only reduce them? Get rid of them!

Now we must demand better results from our high schools, so every high school diploma is a ticket to success.

How could this possibly be acheived? You cannot guarantee success, unless you plan on controling every aspect of a person's life, and, in the process, redefine success.

And we will make it easier for Americans to afford a college education, by increasing the size of Pell Grants.

Oh good, more government and more debt.

To make our economy stronger and more competitive, America must reward, not punish, the efforts and dreams of entrepreneurs. Small business is the path of advancement, especially for women and minorities, so we must free small businesses from needless regulation

Is not the essence of government needless regulation? The opposite of regulation is freedon, which requires smaller, limited government. Other than Ron Paul of Texas, is there ANYONE in DC working toward smaller government?

To make our economy stronger and more productive, we must make health care more affordable, and give families greater access to good coverage, and more control over their health decisions.

Check the stats. Healthcare costs began to spiral out of control when government intervened in healthcare in the 60's via Medicare, and got worse with every attempt by them to "fix" it. Does anyone really think more government involvement will solve the problem they created?

I have appointed a bipartisan panel to examine the tax code from top to bottom. And when their recommendations are delivered, you and I will work together to give this Nation a tax code that is pro-growth, easy to understand, and fair to all.

Isn't that an oxymoron?

We should not be content with laws that punish hardworking people who want only to provide for their families, and deny businesses willing workers, and invite chaos at our border.

That's not what they do. They punish people who enter this country illegally. They punish criminals!

One of America's most important institutions - a symbol of the trust between generations - is also in need of wise and effective reform. Social Security was a great moral success of the 20th Century, and we must honor its great purposes in this new century.

Can you believe this crap? An alleged conservative praising and protecting one of the biggest Socialist programs ever thrust upon the people of the United States.
A moral success? Explain to me how taking money from someone by force and giving it to someone else is moral. If any individual were to try that, its called theft. But when the government does it, its moral and compassionate!

With each passing year, fewer workers are paying ever-higher benefits to an ever-larger number of retirees.

Read that sentence VERY carefully. Read it again. Ol' Bush let the cat out of the bag here. You are not paying into a "trust fund" (by the way, there is no Social Security Trust Fund...it doesn't exist). It is a direct transfer of wealth..."workers are paying...to...retirees".

The goal here is greater security in retirement, so we will set careful guidelines for personal accounts.We will make sure the money can only go into a conservative mix of bonds and stock funds.

Lets see...its my money, but you're going to tell me what to do with it.

We will make sure that your earnings are not eaten up by hidden Wall Street fees. We will make sure there are good options to protect your investments from sudden market swings on the eve of your retirement.

And, you're going to exert some sort of bazarre control over Wall Street.

We will make sure a personal account can't be emptied out all at once, but rather paid out over time

But what if I want MY money all at once?
The reason that this is all being done is to prop up Wall Street. Forced infusion of money almost guarantees a rising Dow.

Now we need to focus on giving young people, especially young men in our cities, better options than apathy, or gangs, or jail. Tonight I propose a three-year initiative to help organizations keep young people out of gangs, and show young men an ideal of manhood that respects women and rejects violence.

I thought this problem was solved with Clinton's Midnight Basketball Program?

Because one of the main sources of our national unity is our belief in equal justice, we need to make sure Americans of all races and backgrounds have confidence in the system that provides justice. In America we must make doubly sure no person is held to account for a crime he or she did not commit - so we are dramatically expanding the use of DNA evidence to prevent wrongful conviction. Soon I will send to Congress a proposal to fund special training for defense counsel in capital cases, because people on trial for their lives must have competent lawyers by their side.

I can't wait to read the fine print of these proposals. There are going to be some ugly things hidden in here. Maybe like a Federal DNA data bank, where your DNA goes on file from birth.

Bush then goes on with his "we will bring freedom to the world" pipedream, which I find so frightening, I don't even want to go into an analysis of what he said.
Just let me repeat what I've said in previous posts: Nation-building is a bad idea and a disasterous policy.

Bush is not a conservative.
Bush is not a Christian.
Bush is a global socialist, with the expansion of government his greatest goal.