Well the headline will has already said "Kerry: "There's no connection between me keeping that insurance loophole open and AIG donating $50,000 to my campaign. None whatsoever. Really, I mean it"
Now read the real truth behind the action.
News: "The Massachusetts Democrat actually was angered by the loophole but didn't want money stripped from the project because it would hurt his constituents who needed the Boston project finished, spokeswoman Stephanie Cutter said.
When the ``AIG investment scheme (came) to light, John Kerry called for public hearings to investigate the parties involved and the legality of the investment practices. However, he firmly believed cutting funding for the Big Dig was not the answer,'' Cutter said. "
iTt's just this simple. We need to take care of needs at home before going off to war, and demolishing a country, and then paying to fix it up.
We would be in less budgetary problems if bush had heeded to the will of the international community. Instead, we are stuck with the bill to rebuild iraq alone.
Now the spending from the war increases and the halliburton 87$ Billion will create jobs. But where will it create jobs, and for whom?
Well first it will create jobs in the government contract business. In texas, or wherever the fuck halliburton is headquartered, and then in the DC suburbs where the overwhelming majority of government contractors and sub contractors exist.
This is not helping the same people who have been laid off as tech companies leave places like western massachusetts, the call center reps who have lost jobs in texas, Oklahoma, minnesota, etc. It is not helping steel workers in ohio, it's not helping laid off textiles workers whose jobs have gone to china.
It's helping an already overwhelmingly affluent section of america, known as northern virgina/DC/MD. And overwhelmingly the money is being routed through unfair no bid contracts to halliburton.
The rich get richer, and get more money to siphon off the top, and continue building their portfolios and assets.
Why do you think bush's tax cuts have still failed to create jobs?
Why do you think he wound up firing his first secretary of commerce?
You know it's very rare that I agree with the head of the FCC these days. But he hit the nail on the head. There's no question in my mind that the "nip slip" at the superbowl halftime was a blatant and crass publicity attempt, in a new media world where rumours are touted as fact by every outlet within seconds, and naughty videos on the internet are everyone's new guilty pleasure.
Americans (who are not me) are celebrity obsessed and this is what they get. People pandering to them with fake scandals.
a classless, crass and deplorable stunt
God Bless America and the bill of rights. George Orwell was british wasn't he?
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