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<<-Unemployment has reached nine-year highs

That’s just patently false. In 1993 the Unemployment rate did not drop below 6%. It did so finally in August of 1994, a year and a half into Clintons presidency. The Unemployment Rate is actually one of the lowest rates (and dropping) since 1974

<<-Instead of providing money for things such as universal healthcare coverage, improving public education, and providing assistance to the 9 million umemployed, 87 billion dollars of needed money has been squandered to support the war in iraq.

Interesting. Education is a primarily STATE function. 90% of education monies comes from the states. The Department Of Education indeed does fund programs, and provind grants to states for services, but only under certain conditions. Better to create your own conditions, that are state specefic, than to try and climb to a national average. This is no new trend. There will be no Universal Healthcare Coverage. Live with it. The unemployed get unemployment benefits (which are often extended beyond the time it is set to expire), Welfare-To-Work, and Workforce Investment Act programs, all which try to help dislocated workers find employment in their current niche – or if their niche is not stable other avenues. I work at such a location. So no, there are services my friend.

<<-Bush was not elected to office, but appointed by the supreme court.

This old chestnut. Depending on “factors” used, either Bush or Gore would have won. A straight count would have found Bush had won by almost 600 votes.

<<Kids under the country's legal drinking age are dying for his "cause" everyday.

You mean the “cause” to remove a vicious dictator, and install a stable democratic government in the middle east? Oh but its about the oil right? What oil?

<<-His war in iraq has already killed more innnocents then al-qaeda did on sep. 11

I would hope there are more people in Iraq than there are in the WTC. Specious comparison.