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Our Candidate: Why We Love GeorgeGeorge W. Bush is more than the perfect puppet Reagan was; he's truly one of us. We don't have to convince him of the benefits of helping out the rich and powerful — he's known them all his life. Billionaires bought him the education his brains couldn't — Andover, Yale, Harvard — then bailed out his failed business ventures, and paid his way into politics. As a result, George is as dedicated to realising our vision for America as we are!
Tax Cuts, the Deficit and Destroying Public Services
We love George's tax cuts! They mean trillions for us and tidbits for everyone else. Better still, they've left Americans with a crippling debt that their children will be paying back to us (guess who loaned Bush the money for a tax cut?!) for years to come while the Government slashes social security, education and health care to avoid going bankrupt. Read more...
Investment: $200 million to Bush's 2000 election campaign
Return: $1.1 trillion in tax cuts
Percent Return: 550,000%
Medicare and Pharmaceuticals
The health of Americans is important to us. In fact, it's worth about $1.6 trillion a year! And now George is helping us make even more money from this booming business. He's protecting our profits by barring cheaper drugs from abroad, while his new Medicare bill guarantees that the government can't negotiate bulk drug prices from our companies.
The American drug industry is a real cash cow for us, the most profitable one in the world. Over the 3 years of the Bush presidency, our drug companies averaged 17% profit. Nobody beats that, and it’s all thanks to George. But the best is yet to come. The President has passed a strong Medicare bill that prohibits the government from butting their noses in and negotiating drug prices with our drug companies. So, 61.1 percent of the Medicare dollars that will be spent by the government will be added to drug company profits. This means an estimated $139 billion in increased profits over eight years for the world’s most profitable industry. At $17 billion annually, this means about a 38 percent rise in drug maker profit, in addition to our 17% profit margin now. A nice return on our drug companies’ investment of only $44 million in the Republicans since Bush was elected. We were scared that importation of cheaper drugs from countries we don't yet control, like Canada and Australia, might undermine our profit, but the President passed laws banning this evil practice, and House Speaker Dennis Hastert (whose largest source of campaign money is drug companies) advocates forcing Canada to raise its own drug prices to protect us from competition. That’s smart!
Investment: $44 million in Drug Company donations to Republicans since 2000
Return: $139 billion in additional Drug Company profits over 8 years
Percent Return: 315,900%
Defense Contracting
Most Presidents keep our Defense Contractors happy, but George is special. He's increased the defence budget, turned over lucrative government services to our companies and topped it all by destroying Iraq with our most expensive bombs and then paying us to re-build it! So while America gets more wars, less money for social programs, families and the future, we get $250 billion! Read more...
Investment: $23.5 million in Defense Contractors' donations since 2000 to Republicans
Return: Approximately $251 billion
Percent Return: 1,068,000%
Energy
George is an oil man, Cheney is an oil man. We're all oil men! From Kyoto to Iraq, George has ensured that whether it's global warming or global peace, our profits come first. He even let us write his new energy bill and give ourselves $30 billion of your money in new subsidies. Read more...
Investment: $108 million from Oil Companies since 2000 to Republicans
Return: $30 billion
Percent Return: 27,778%
Workers' Overtime Coverage
Overtime pay may keep millions of families afloat, but it sure costs us a lot of money! That's why George has fought the whining public and the Congress to remove 8 million workers' right to overtime pay, potentially saving us $1.9billion a year, forever! Read more...
Investment: $6 million from Business Associations since 2000 to Republicans
Return: $1.9 billion per year forever
Percent Return: 31,667% per year
Media Consolidation
George knows the value of having media that'll make him look good, and we know the value of controlling what you think (and of making $billions doing it). Again, George has stood alone against a public outcry, a bi-partisan Congress and the foundations of America's democracy to ensure that our mega-media corporations can get even bigger. Read more...
Investment: $25.7 million from media corps to Republicans since 2000
Return: Control over what every American thinks and buys — priceless
Environment
Once, governments fought to protect your health and preserve the environment for your children. Maybe they just didn't appreciate how much money could be made? But George does. He's undone decades of terrible, anti-Billionaire policies and fought hard for our rights to make billions polluting the air, endangering health and wrecking the natural world. Read more...
Iraq War
For years our "Bomb the Arabs and Steal Their Oil!" bumper sticker has gone unheeded. That is, until George came along. The Middle East has been a constant irritation to us Billionaires for decades. Finally we've gone in and taken control. WMD, human rights, whatever. We've got the oil and that means serious money. Dead US soldiers, dead Iraqis, enraged Muslim world, increased terrorist threats? As long as our profit margins are healthy, we'll make it through. Read more...
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