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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. Read more...
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!
Paying our workers salaries is a necessary evil. But paying them overtime? It’s really too much. But a 1938 law — damn that New Deal! — means that 90 million of them have a right to time and a half pay. Worse, we have to shell out $2bn worth of litigation each year quibbling over entitlements when we try to take them away illegally . Not any more! Our man in the White House has seen to that. Earlier this year, Bush changed the law so that 8 million middle-income workers, including nurses, lost their right to overtime pay . He cleverly inserted a provision increasing the number of low income workers covered by the overtime law so he could claim he was fighting for the little guy. But just in case it might annoy us, his Department of Labor kindly included in their report some helpful “tips” to us employers on how to avoid paying these workers their extra money — our favorite: cut the newly eligible workers’ wages, then add the overtime to equal the original salary . Like we couldn’t have thought of that ourselves! Of course, the workers and their unions protested the changes , as did bi-partisan groups in both houses of Congress. But we lobbied hard for it . So our boy did what he always does — he ignored the public and bullied and bought off the Congress. He knows as well as we do that if — as one worker put it — “it means longer hours with less pay”, it must be a good thing for his friends the Billionaires. The whole deal stands to save us employers about $1.9 billion a year.
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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