Kerry warns that Bush spending cuts are 'almost criminal'

Associated Press ^ | 4-9-04 | MIKE GLOVER

[Oldeconomybuyer]

CHICAGO (AP) -- Touring a struggling job-training site, Democrat John Kerry on Friday sought to refocus the presidential race on pocketbook issues, warning of "almost criminal" cuts in bedrock training and education programs.

"I'm tired of talking about valuing families and not valuing families," Kerry said. "There are unbelievable, unacceptable, staggering numbers of young lives that are being abandoned in our country."

Kerry held a town hall meeting at a job-training site where officials said their budget and the number of students they can train have been slashed because of cuts.

"This is pretty simple. The workplace of the United States of America is as stressed as I don't think I've seen it stressed at any time," Kerry said. "That's almost criminal. It's not criminal, but I want to underscore how unbelievable it is."

Kerry accused Bush of slashing $1 billion from job-training programs. "You shouldn't be abandoned and struggling the way you are today," he said.

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[Oldeconomybuyer]

Kerry is pathetic.

[CaptRon]

You gotta say this for the Dems: No one can ever accuse them of understatement.

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[madison10]

Flip-flop needs to make up his mind...either is Bush wrong for spending too much or wrong for making cuts, which is it? Kerry needs to listen to HIMSELF once in awhile.

[PokeyJoe]

was gonna say what you said, but you're quicker - so I'll just say "ditto"

[RightWhale]

"There are unbelievable, unacceptable, staggering numbers of young lives that are being abandoned in our country."

Something's unbelievable. Hmm, what could it be? Could it be . . . Kerry?

[My2Cents]

"I'm tired of talking about valuing families and not valuing families," Kerry said.

This coming for a man who annulled his first marriage.

[Wild Irish Rogue]

" "That's almost criminal. It's not criminal,.."

This moron should just lip sync to prerecorded statements.
Add this to the stack of flip flops.

[swilhelm73]

So, on the one hand the Democrats accuse Bush of spending too much. Then a few days later, they accuse him of cutting spending too much.

All the while Bush is primarily agreeing to the Democrat's demanded wasteful spending, just at a smaller rate of increase.

[MegaSilver]

?????!!!!!!

What spending cuts???!!!

[MrB]

Hey, Kerry!

Point out that article of the Constitution that authorizes Congress to spend money on these programs. And "general welfare" is not an enumerated power.

I won't hold my breath.

[ShandaLear]

Since when does Kerry know anything about "the workplace?" He hasn't held a legitimate job in his entire life.

[Paul Atreides]

"I'm tired of talking about valuing families and not valuing families," Kerry said.

"That's almost criminal. It's not criminal, but I want to underscore how unbelievable it is."

What a babbling t*rd!

[theDentist]

Kerry warns that Bush spending cuts are 'almost criminal'

And just yesterday Ol' Horseface was saying that as President he would cut spending.

[LurkedLongEnough]

Kerry tomorrow: "I'm tired of talking about valuing religion and not valuing religion. I'm tired of talking about valuing choice and not valuing choice. I'm tired of talking about valuing war and not valuing war. I'm tired of talking about valuing this and not valuing that."

Just end it with: "I'm tired of talking", because we're tired of listening to your crap.

[astounded]

"This is pretty simple. The workplace of the United States of America is as stressed as I don't think I've seen it stressed at any time," Kerry said.

Kerry said that exactly right - "as I don't think I've seen it...". He has never seen the "workplace of the United States" because he has never been a part of it. He has been a leech on society - a politician - except for his "heroic" 4-months service in SEA, for what that was worth. What an arrogant, pompous jerk he is.

[bassmaner]

"almost criminal"

Giving aid and comfort to the enemy during time of war (i.e. TREASON) is beyond criminal. John Kerry - former member of the communist front group "Vietnam Veterans Against the War" - you stand accused.

[savedbygrace]

"The workplace of the United States of America is as stressed as I don't think I've seen it stressed at any time," Kerry said.

That sentence ought to be taken out and shot. What the heck does, "is as stressed as I don't think I've seen it stressed," mean? How would that sentence be diagrammed?

Sounds like a Kennedy sentence. Idiots.

[Badeye]

Kerry's mouth will be his undoing. He's so empty of any "core values" its stunning.

I stopped really worrying about his possibly winning the election a couple of weeks ago, when it became obvious there isn't a single John Kerry supporter that can cite anything he's done as a reason to vote for him.

"Anybody but Bush" isn't going to rally anyone to Kerry beyond those dumb enough to vote a straight line Democratic Party ticket every two or four years.

[SeeRushToldU_So]

I just heard on the news that this years college grads were going to be in the best shape for being hired in years.

Govt Job Training is school.

[MrB]

That sentence ought to be taken out and shot.

[Sender]

Better to be thought 'almost criminal' than to be a scheming, spending Democrat who fulfills the description completely.

[Abbeville Conservative]

Remember in 2000 when all the demonrats were accusing W of never holding a job even though he had run the Texas Rangers and an oil company. If John Fn Kerry has never held a job this should be made into a campaign issue. The problem is we are running out of space for issues on this guy. This list of campaign issues to use against him could fill a book as thick as "War and Peace"!!

[fella]

The true criminality is in the way that our congress critters have squanderd our hard earned tax dollars in their grossly open efforts to buy votes.

[Sweet Land]

I stopped really worrying about his possibly winning the election a couple of weeks ago, when it became obvious there isn't a single John Kerry supporter that can cite anything he's done as a reason to vote for him.

"Reasons? We don' need no steenkin' reasons!"

[Paul Atreides]

Kerry's mouth will be his undoing. He's so empty of any "core values" its stunning.

Kerry thinks that all he has to do to be elected is to walk, talk, and act like a Kennedy.

[goldstategop]

At least Seinfeld isn't pretending he means to cut spending. After all most of its exempted from real controls and his pledge to "bring sanity back to U.S Budgeting" was simply a PR exercise.

[Right_in_Virginia]

The workplace of the United States of America is as stressed as I don't think I've seen it stressed at any time," Kerry said.

I guess this means Kerry was stoned through the entire Carter presidency.

And, if he believes what he says .... he's still suffering the residual affects of his indulgence.

[Badeye]

They will be forced to reevaluated that after November's asskicking.....LOL!

[snooker]

flip, flop, flip flop, so taxes it is, today.

Pathetic is too kind.

[Badeye]

"Kerry thinks that all he has to do to be elected is to walk, talk, and act like a Kennedy."

He he he....guess he will be drowning one of his female staffers any day now.....or have an affair with Courtney Love, ala JFK and Monroe....or possible go out in a small boat and arrange to be run over by a Japanese fishing trawler. If none of that works, maybe he can get caught up in running booze illegally....

The possibilities are endless if you put your mind to it!

[cubreporter]

Kerry WARNS

Kerry ATTACKS

Kerry CRITICIZES

Kerry ACCUSES

Kerry CHARGES

Yada, Yada, Yada.

One thing we know this idiot is good at. Constant attacks on the President. But what else is good at? NOTHING! Has all his hacks out there like kennedy talking for him. kennedy has put our troops in more harms way by the foul that comes out of his mouth and he should be ashamed of himself for behaving in the manner he has towards our country, our President and our troops.

[Blue Screen of Death]

If a guy is unemployed and marries a rich widow and decides to spend the rest of his life spending her money, is he still unemployed?

[NormsRevenge]

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry (news - web sites), D-Mass., center, laughs while holding one-year-old Jeremiah McGrone, during a campaign stop at the Greater West Town Training Partnership vocational school, in Chicago, Friday, April 9, 2004. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

[Howlin]

Exactly!

I'm sick of all these "liar" and "criminal" accusations about my president.

[Howlin]

Could this entire diatribe of his be characterized as "talking down the economy?"

I mean, I KNOW it won't be, but to me, it sure could be.

I remember when they accused Bush of that in 2000.

[MrB]

Has he actually NEVER held a job in the private sector?

oh, sorry, he's a democRat politician, dumb question...

[Right_in_Virginia]

Could this entire diatribe of his be characterized as "talking down the economy?"

I agree...but even the perception of a bad economy is Kerry's silver lining.

I also see this lastest Kerry diatribe as an effort by the "presumptive" DemonRat candidate to solidify his (unemployed) base and keep the "anger factor" boiling on high.

The "9/11 Commission" will keep the anger boiling on high when it comes to national defense--and Kerry will keep the anger boiling on high when it comes to the economy.

They're hoping if they can generate enough hatred....they'll win.

[Samwise]

Kerrythink:

To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again: and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself. That was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word 'Kerrythink' involved the use of Kerrythink.'

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I remember these job training centers in my home town back when Jimmah Cahtah was president. Several were busted for dealing dope.

[Mr Ducklips]

Another chuckle-head.

[scory]

I too am getting really tired of the name-calling that accompanies every policy disagreement that the democrats have. They never just say "I disagree with such and such a position that the president has taken. I think we should__________." It is always "liar" this and "stupid" that. Every statement has to carry some kind of epithet belittling the president and his party. The Republicans are somewhat better in this department though I must say that they did not exactly cover themselves with glory during the clinton years.

The media carries much of the blame for this. Media coverage of elections is almost never about policy but instead about rivalry and controversy. The shallowness of the political and economic reporting in this country (indeed most reporting of any kind) especially from the MSM is a travesty of journalism. The politicians simply follow their lead.

[doodad]

What spending cuts???!!!

You know..the ones where the pork doesn't increase by 10% in the budget this year, just 5%.

[GailA]

he's illogical, is he still smoking pot?

[simmerdownnow]

An excellent point! Almost! Both sides of the Isle are equally guilty of name calling. This thread has lots of Kerry slurs in it. The real downside to name calling is that the real debate gets side lined. I'm not a Bush fan nor a Kerry fan nor any one else I've seen lately. With so much a stake it only makes sense to stick to the facts and quote sources.