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C I Host Poll Indicates Bush Leads Kerry Among Businesses; Hosting Company Tallies Huge, Expedient Sample From Internet DALLAS, Nov. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- C I Host today released of one of the largest presidential polls ever conducted among small- to medium-sized business owners, indicating that Republican incumbent George W. Bush enjoys a commanding lead over Democratic candidate John Kerry prior to Tuesday's election. The poll tallies the opinions of 27,593 U.S. respondents who participated in an e-mail questionnaire distributed to C I Host clients throughout the country. An additional 4,823 international respondents participated. Significantly, the U.S. survey found 49 percent...

CHICAGO-BASED Joel Stern heads one of the largest global corporate consultancies, Stern Stewart, and is therefore a recognised expert on the likely behaviour of the world's biggest companies. He has come to Australia to warn about what might happen in the US next year. Last October (The Weekend Australian, October 18) he predicted incredibly accurately the huge rise in 2004 US productivity and profits (profits look like achieving a real rise of about 19 per cent); a substantial rise in US employment; and US growth rates of between 4.5 and 5.5 per cent. His latest predictions are frightening. Stern says...

Just on Fox News: using Kerry's own numbers, the "tax roll-back for the rich" will effect anyone making over $ 146,000 a year, not $ 200,000. How many "rich people" out there making $ 146,000?

"Can I get me a hunting license here?" Kerry asked store owners..." Is the Senator from MA speaking to the fine citizens of Ohio like they're from an age past gone? What's up with this?

"He (Kerry) also made campaign stops meant to play to southeast Ohio's strong gun-rights voters. In Pike County's city of Buchanan, Kerry's motorcade stopped at the Village Grocery Store, where he paid $140 for a hunting license he plans to use during a hunting trip and campaign stop in Youngstown this week." "Can I get me a hunting license here?" Kerry asked store owners Paul and Debra McKnight.

The Washington Timeswww.washingtontimes.com Bush, Kerry and tradePublished October 16, 2004 President Bush has presided over a calibrated and ambitious trade policy that has been geared towards opening new markets around the world for U.S. producers while defending U.S. industry from unfair trade practices abroad. Mr. Bush's trade representative, Robert Zoellick, has proven to be an agile negotiator in and main driver of global trade talks.     By contrast, John Kerry has articulated a trade agenda which endangers the ongoing round of trade negotiations. His call for reevaluating existing trade deals could alienate U.S. allies and undermine U.S. foreign policy. In fact,...

The final two presidential debates have given Americans a clear picture of John Kerry’s tax vision. It’s not pretty. For starters, Kerry’s statements and campaign manifesto undermine his pledge not to raise taxes on those who earn less than $200,000. This alone should warn voters that, for Kerry, tax hikes are not a last resort, but a first response.

The U.S. economy has displayed a remarkable resilience following the bursting of the Internet bubble and the 9/11 terrorist attacks that struck at the heart of American business. The economy’s strength was such that the 2001 recession is among the weakest on record. Today, business investment continues on an unprecedented expansion and more Americans are working than ever before. Still, myths are rampant. This paper presents a basic statistical overview of the American economy and prosperity that Americans today enjoy. I. Jobs, Employment, and Income There are three main indicators that inform the issue of employment in America. First is...

October 13, 2004, 11:05 a.m. 368 Economists Against Kerrynomics The challenger’s policies would bring “a lower standard of living for the American people.” By J. Edward Carter & Cesar V. Conda Leading economists have a message for America: “John Kerry favors economic policies that, if implemented, would lead to bigger and more intrusive government and a lower standard of living for the American people.” That was the conclusion released in a statement Wednesday by 368 economists, including six Nobel laureates: Gary Becker, James Buchanan, Milton Friedman, Robert Lucas, Robert Mundell, and — the winner of this year’s Nobel Prize in...

Middle Class Said To Pay Higher Tax Rate Than Heinz Kerry And KerryMon Oct 11 2004 10:22:17 ET Stephen Moore, president of the Club for Growth, writes in the WALL STREET JOURNAL on Monday: "According to the Kerrys' own tax records, and they have not released all of them, the couple had a combined income of $6.8 million in income last year and paid $725,000 in income taxes. That means their effective tax rate was a whopping 12.8%.... "Under the current tax system the middle class pays far more than the Kerry tax rate. In fact, the average federal tax...

In the debate on Friday night, John Kerry was asked if he'd raise taxes on families making under $200,000. In a memorable moment, John Kerry looked right into the camera and lied to America. JAMES VARNER: Senator Kerry, would you be willing to look directly into the camera and, using simple and unequivocal language, give the American people your solemn pledge not to sign any legislation that will increase the tax burden on families earning less than $200,000 a year during your first term? JOHN KERRY: "Absolutely. Yes. Right into the camera. Yes. I am not going to raise taxes."...

John Kerry says vote for him because he'll restore what Democrats talk about as Bill Clinton's "just-right, Goldilocks" economy. "Let's not forget what we [Democrats] did in the 1990s," he's been telling folks on the campaign trail and may well repeat in one of the next two debates. "And we can do it again." But the splendid ’90s were not splendid because of the Democrats or Clinton or even Clinton's much ballyhooed Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, now a Kerry adviser. It's a nice party myth, but it's far from accurate. Some recent history is in order: After Clinton's election, the...

http://www.capitalideasblog.com/archives/2004/10/kerrys_economic.html The main point is that Kerry is not offering a middle-class tax cut as he continually claims. It's only a few targeted tax credits for a less-than-majority segment of the population. Agree? Disagree?

Consumer spending never once declined in the recession of 2000-01. This is because middle-class income actually increased by nearly 5 percent between 2000 and 2002, according to the latest IRS statistics. This fact runs completely counter to the Kerry-Edwards argument about a “middle-class squeeze.” Still, overall individual income declined 5 percent during this period. Why? Upper-end income suffered mightily. The top tax brackets lost about 28 percent of their income, on average, largely from the stock market crash and the fall in high-paying jobs. Twelve percent of the folks who fought their way above $200,000 a year slipped below that...

Kerry caught red-handed in a LIE as he pledged he would not raise taxes!October 9, 2004ONLINE STORY Making people pay taxes that they're not currently paying is a tax increase. How much simpler could it be? When Kerry was asked during the debate if he would pledge not to raise taxes on Americans making less than $200,000 a year, he looked into the camera and said "I am not going to raise taxes, I have a tax cut." Yet right in the middle of his answer, he spoke of repealing the Bush "tax cut." While the Kerry and the DNC...

On the financial segment, Fox News, this AM, 10-09-04, 11:30 AM, Jonathan Hoenig said that John Kerry's economic plan is a Communist-Manisfesto. On job creation, Hoenig said, that John Kerry's idea of getting a job, is to marry a very wealthy woman. Jonathan Hoenig, is the Managing Member of a private Investment Partnership and a weekend guest contributor for Fox News. For more on him; http://wwwcapitalistpig.com/home.html

MEMORANDUMFROM: BC'04 POLICY DEPARTMENTIntroductionOver the course of the campaign, Senator Kerry has proposed adding more than $2 trillion in new spending to the Federal budget, including his big government take over of health care.  Yet he still claims he will reduce the budget deficit in half during his first term.  Contrary to his claim, third party analysis indicates Senator Kerry underestimates the costs of his proposals and inflates the value of his offsets.  Independent analysts conclude Senator Kerry's numbers just don't add up.  In order to maintain his pledge to cut the deficit in half he will either have to...

IN THE FIRST presidential debate, which made Democrats think that the presidency is very nearly theirs, John Kerry went through a list of domestic projects that he believes are needed to make America more secure from terrorists. Better safeguarding American ports was one of his concerns. Why, he said, in a swipe at President Bush, 95 percent of the containers arriving on our shores are not inspected. Okay, Senator, have them inspected if you ascend to the White House. We will then not have to fear that terrorists will destroy us, for you will have done it in one fell...

2003 Vote To Raise Income Taxes By $90 Billion. (S. 1689, CQ Vote #373: Motion Agreed To 57-42: R 50-1; D 7-40; I 0-1, 10/2/03, Kerry Voted Nay; Senate Republican Policy Committee, “Security Supplemental/Small Business Tax Hike To Pay For The Bill,” 10/2/03)2003 Vote To Increase Superfund Taxes By $15.6 Billion. (S. Con. Res. 23, CQ Vote # 97: Rejected 43-56: R 1-50; D 41-6, I 1-0, 3/25/03, Kerry Voted Yea)1999 Vote To Increase Tobacco Taxes By $133 Billion To Pay For Prescription Drug Benefit. (S. Con. Res. 20, CQ Vote #76: Motion Rejected 54-44: R 12-41; D 42-3, 3/25/99,...

I've heard from Kerry-Republicans recently that they are turning to Kerry over the current forecasted deficits and the state of the economy. The argument: I support small government, and Bush is spending and putting us into debt. Fallacy: 9/11 evaporated an estimated equivalence of 1/12th of the US GNP. The ripple effect throughout the economy can be measured in multiples of that loss; one could even argue that the multiple could easily bridge the gap between the inherited 5 trillion surpluses and the current forecasted 3 trillion deficits. Entire companies were wiped out in a single instant that day. Entire...