[Ramonan]

Here is "The other side's" Argument:

Author: CPUSA Political Action Commission
First published 21.05.2004 19:36 by {article_topic_desc}



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1. Bush is destroying workers rights and outsourcing jobs instead of protecting the right to organize and creating new jobs rebuilding schools, bridges, roads and hospitals

2. Bush is privatizing Medicare, Social Security and public education with phony reforms instead of enacting health care for all, protecting retirement funds and full funding for public education through college.

3. Bush is bankrupting the Federal Government with giant tax cuts for the very rich and super-funds to the military instead of securing the budget for human needs by taxing the rich and spending on human needs.

4. Bush is rolling back civil rights gains instead of enforcing and expanding affirmative action to end racism in all areas of life.

5. Bush is curtailing women's rights and choice by undermining Roe v. Wade instead of upholding the right to choice and ending the gender wage gap.

6. Bush is abusing immigrant workers in low-wage jobs instead of providing a clear path to citizenship and equal rights.

7. Bush is exploiting and ruining the environment by protecting corporate polluters instead of conserving our natural resources for the public good.

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9. Bush is denying civil liberties and free speech in the name of fighting terrorism instead of repealing the USA Patriot Act and helping cities, towns and states fund firefighters and police.

10. Bush discriminates against Gays and Lesbians with a Constitutional Amendment instead of expanding civil rights and liberties for all.

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[Southack]

"1. Bush is destroying workers rights and outsourcing jobs instead of protecting the right to organize and creating new jobs..."

Incorrect. President Bush has protected workers' rights by enforcing the Supreme Court's Beck decision which says that union dues must be returned to those workers who disagree with the union leaderships' politics. GWB has also directly created jobs by expanding our military, as well as indirectly creating jobs by implementing two income tax cuts, opening up national forests to logging (especially for creating firebreaks), as well as pushing to open up Alaska for more oil drilling.

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[Southack]

"2. Bush is privatizing Medicare, Social Security and public education with phony reforms instead of enacting health care for all, protecting retirement funds and full funding for public education through college."

That's jumbled logic. By privatizing Social Security, President Bush allows citizens to pass their retirement pensions on to their heirs, something that the current system doesn't permit.

Moreover, the current system discriminates against Blacks. The average life span of a Black male is 62 years; of White males: 72 years. Thus, Black males, statistically, collect no Social Security; whereas White males collect for 10 years.

But by privatizing social security, the heirs of both Blacks as well as Whites finally gain access to their fathers' social security. In contrast, the existing payments stop when you die and you lose all that you've paid in to the system. By privatizing ss, however, all that you've paid in is still yours to pass on to your heirs when you die...so your heirs no longer suffer an inheritence penalty if you are Black...at least under President Bush's proposal.

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[Southack]

"4. Bush is rolling back civil rights gains instead of enforcing and expanding affirmative action to end racism in all areas of life."

Nonsense. Affirmative Action discriminates against at least one race, possibly more (e.g. Whitey). You don't end racism by discriminating against another race.

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[Southack]

"5. Bush is curtailing women's rights and choice by undermining Roe v. Wade instead of upholding the right to choice and ending the gender wage gap."

False premise. President Bush is *protecting* the rights of women who have not yet been born. Their rights are *undermined* by the CPUSA's pro-abortion views, by the way.

And Martha Stewart hardly suffers from a "wage gap."

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[Southack]

"7. Bush is exploiting and ruining the environment by protecting corporate polluters instead of conserving our natural resources for the public good."

Conserving natural resources does the public no good if the public never gets to use said resources.

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[Southack]

"8. Bush's war in Iraq is a disaster for our security and economy."

Nonsense. We haven't been hit by another 9/11 ever since President Bush starting waging war against rogue states in foreign lands, and our economy is in far better shape today than just after 9/11, too.

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