What hogwash. Most of the game is infantile insults and innuendo that can't even be considered to be an assertion of fact (however wrong), so it really can't be argued. It's opinion.
There were a few areas that came close to making arguable assertions. One was about Bush allowing "corporate pigs" to shift our "growing economic problems on the struggling middle class". What the heck does that mean? Sounds like something out of Che Gueverra's mouth. Bush gave the middle class a tax cut. As for this "economic burden"; under Bush, the top 1% of earners pay 34% of the taxes. The top 25% pay 84%, and the top 50% pay 96.54% of taxes. To me, it kinda looks like that burden is skewed toward the rich, and the truth is that this progressive taxation has gotten more skewed under Bush. Also.. now this is important... thanks to those tax cuts, overall tax revenue is up. How can this be? It's because there are more jobs, more corporate earnings and greater productivity, all of which generate tax revenue. Lower the rates, and the government brings in more revenue. Same thing happened under Reagan.
Then, in the game, there's the statement that under Bush, we have "lost more jobs since the Great Depression". That's simply untrue. Of course jobs were lost in the first part of his Presidency due to recession (which began under Clinton), 9/11 and corporate scandals, none of which were his doing. Over the past 28 months, America has created more than 4.2 million new jobs, more than regaining those he lost early in his first term. And, the current unemployment rate of 5.1 percent is lower than the average of the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s.
Last edited by Mazeman; 11-01-2005 at 09:48 PM.
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