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bush or kerry
June 3rd, 2004
altho i can not vote, i can’t help to take interest in the hottest american political issue - 2004 presidential election of course. i always love political debates. after i’ve had 3 weeks of intensive american politics study, i now have a better understanding of american politics than ever. the biggest surprise i learned is how the federal budget looks. bush led the federal deficit of fiscal year of all time high. it’s reaching $500 billion. realize that’s only for one year, the total national debt is actually over $7.1 trillion now. isn’t that lovely?!
take a look at this graph! the net loss under bush administration is $410 billions while clinton had a net gain of $523 billions.
that alone is reason enough to get bush out of the office.
the budget will be a big problem once all the baby boomers hit retirement age. the fact is most of federal budget is spent paying social security and medicare. right now we have 15 working person to support 1 retired, by 2020, this number will decrease to 2. if the system doesn’t change, either the working class will have to pay more tax or the old people will have to get less money. since old people are more likely to vote, you can expect they will not vote to decrease their social security checks. it’s really important for the system to change right now.
i visited both bush and kerry’s websites. one thing i noticed (unless i overlooked) is that bush doesn’t allow any open discussion on his site. you can not leave comments on his blog entries nor does he have a public forum like on kerry’s site. that’s not very democratic, isn’t it? for a person like me who truly enjoys reading educated debates, WHAT A DISAPPOINTMENT on bush’s site.
i’m happy to read many Republicans are leaning toward Kerry. as the history shows, most people still vote according to their party alignment. it’s those who are independent or moderate liberty or conservative are likely to vote fully based on issues and integrity.
i’m not sure how Kerry will turn out. but i’m convinced bush is an incompetent president.
Learning the lessons of Tiananmen Square
June 3rd, 2004
a piece of writing worth saving in my booklet. it is written by Tiananmen Square protestor Wang Dan (2), who spent years in prison following the crackdown. The publication comes from here which is blocked in china. i read a few comments about june 4 on BBC, apparently the sentiment toward the protest is still overwhelmingly controversial. one of the most laughable statements made by a mainlander is: “(From BBCChinese.com): Why is it that the supporters are all outside China, and that all the witnesses are in the US? by FM, Yunnan, China”
well what you think? esp. after most supporters are imprisoned if not killed. and website for missing person hunt for the protest leads to the sentencing of the webmaster? who can survive being a supporter of the protest in china?
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