Friday, October 01, 2004

Cutting taxes even if we die doing it

A truly amazing exchange. Read this carefully:

KERRY: 95 percent of the containers that come into the ports, right here in Florida, are not inspected.

Civilians get onto aircraft, and their luggage is X- rayed, but the cargo hold is not X-rayed.

Does that make you feel safer in America?

This president thought it was more important to give the wealthiest people in America a tax cut rather than invest in homeland security. Those aren't my values. I believe in protecting America first.

And long before President Bush and I get a tax cut -- and that's who gets it -- long before we do, I'm going to invest in homeland security and I'm going to make sure we're not cutting COPS programs in America...

And there's an enormous undone job to protect the loose nuclear materials in the world that are able to get to terrorists. That's a whole other subject, but I see we still have a little bit more time.

Let me just quickly say, at the current pace, the president will not secure the loose material in the Soviet Union -- former Soviet Union for 13 years. I'm going to do it in four years. And we're going to keep it out of the hands of terrorists.

BUSH: I don't think we want to get to how he's going to pay for all these promises. It's like a huge tax gap.


Got that? Bush thinks his tax cut for the wealthy is more important than homeland security. More important than keeping America safe. More important that taking care of loose nuclear materials.

And he admitted it.

If Kerry is smart, he will beat Bush over the head with this from now until the election.

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