We believed President Bush when he said he would:
• Unite our country.
• Increase America’s prestige in the world.
• Find and punish the specific people responsible for 9/11.
• Keep a balanced budget and offer tax cuts that would create more
jobs.
• Create a sensible energy policy and enforce regulations that protect
America’s clean air, pure water and fertile soils.
• Establish a superb public school system that “left no child behind.”
• Follow the highest ethical principles-such as telling the truth.
But we citizens of America have been
disappointed; President Bush has done
none of these things.
• America is more bitterly divided than ever.
• Mr. Bush's go-it-alone foreign policy has alienated most of our former allies; American
prestige in the world has diminished.
• Osama Bin Laden has not been found and punished. Our actions in Iraq have
increased terrorism.
• Mr. Bush has created record deficits. He has cut taxes for the very wealthy. In the last 4
years, America has lost almost a million jobs, making Bush the first president to post a
net job loss since the 1930's Depression.
• Mr. Bush has systematically undermined the laws that protect our environment, allowing
our air and water to become dirtier. He's opened millions of acres of national parks and
wilderness to logging, mining, and oil drilling. More than one third of our population is
breathing polluted air.
• Mr. Bush's energy plan virtually ignores renewable energy. Automobile fuel efficiency
has sunk to a 22-year low. He ignores the catastrophic reality of global warming, even
though the Pentagon says that global warming could be a greater threat than terrorism.
• In 2004, Mr. Bush refused to release $9 billion authorized by Congress to fund his No
Child Left Behind Act. His 2005 budget includes only half the funding he promised for
after school programs.
• Mr. Bush has lied to the American people about why we went to war in Iraq. He has used
secrecy, divisive politicking and intimidation against governments and political
opponents. His actions violate many of the Christian values he claims to represent.
Enough is enough. Vote for change.
Vote for
John Kerry for President.
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