Reply #3: Fascinating and with glaring omissions - like the war and deficits

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

On points 1-20

1. Economic growth is an illusion when one takes into account the stagnation of wages, the lack of REAL job growth and the growing deficits and trade imbalances. We are just running up a Visa card with the imprinture of Chinese banks.

2. The DEATH tax (called the Estate or Inheritance tax by sane people) does not apply to the vast majority of Americans as it only arises when estates are greater than 1.6 million dollars. Those with larger estates are still usually able to avoid it with proper estate planning which they can all afford anyway.

3.Would be fine if we could be assured that the new jobs would not be off-shored,in-shored or made up solely of the new "guest workers" i.e. "serfs".

4.Cos' they're just all about "fairness" and "simplicity". They just want it to be fairly simple to siphon off boatloads of tax-free dollars to cronies and families.

5.Just talk to anyone in the military about all the "support" they are getting from this administration - from inadequate supplies to crappy pay systems to trying to renege on promises made to existing veterans.

6. Homeland Security can ONLY be increased as it is non-existent as we speak.

7.Most Americans would choose ANY affordable health care that could not be ripped away from them as soon as they need it or lose their job.

8.Civil Rights are civil rights and marriage is a civil right which should not be withheld due to sexual orientation. Civil unions among gays does nothing to threaten the sanctity of marriage among non-gays. Get over it.

9. Should be "continue to provide funding for remedial education programs" so that redundancies like this can be caught in the future.

10. Same as #9. Don't they proof read?

11. Like to be a little more specific? Reform is a pretty nebulous word.

12. See #6. Since we have NO border Security any change would be an increase.

13. About f!@#king time! But there are countless other programs that could also be enacted.

14. Same as #13.

15. Another duplication! See #7.

16. Honor the promise to seniors while you screw younger Americans with your plan to privatize SS dollars and funnel them into the pockets of your corrupt insider crony companies who will then siphon billions and billions in administrative charges, fees and overhead.

17. See above.

18. Dupe

19. The rising cost of healthcare has almost NOTHING to due with medical malpractice except for the unconscionable rates charged by the gouging insurance companies. Multiple offender doctors need to be driven into a high risk pool or out of the industry.

20. No issues with this one, as long as the judges have no personal agenda, be it right or left.