Tuesday, September 28, 2004

The Crawford, Texas, Lone Star Iconoclast endorses Kerry for president, brutally:

Few Americans would have voted for George W. Bush four years ago if he had promised that, as President, he would:
• Empty the Social Security trust fund by $507 billion to help offset fiscal irresponsibility and at the same time slash Social Security benefits.
• Cut Medicare by 17 percent and reduce veterans’ benefits and military pay.
• Eliminate overtime pay for millions of Americans and raise oil prices by 50 percent.
• Give tax cuts to businesses that sent American jobs overseas, and, in fact, by policy encourage their departure.
• Give away billions of tax dollars in government contracts without competitive bids.
• Involve this country in a deadly and highly questionable war, and
• Take a budget surplus and turn it into the worst deficit in the history of the United States, creating a debt in just four years that will take generations to repay.
Followup, 10/1: The editorial, it seems, was ill-advised: the Iconoclast now expects to go out of business.
As of Wednesday morning, more than a dozen readers had canceled their subscription and six advertisers had pulled their spots from the paper. [Publisher W. Leon] Smith expects there will be more, and he's preparing for the worst. "It will probably put us under," he said.

1 comment:

The One said...

Bravo, Lone Star Iconoclast!