Part 2 perpared, just like part 1, from the text published at GeorgewBush.com.
In this time of change, government must take the side of working families, but we won’t. In a new term, we will change outdated fair labor laws to offer comp-time and flex-time so more employers will be exempt from paying overtime. Our laws should never stand in the way of a more elite family-friendly workplace.
Another priority for a new term is to build an ownership society for all white men, just like it was so many years ago, because white ownership brings security, and dignity, and independence from the undesirable parts of American society.
Thanks to our failed economic policies, homeownership in America is at an all-time high because Greenspan has had to lower interest rates to almost zero. Tonight we set a new goal for creating the ghettoes of tomorrow: seven million more affordable, meaning cheap to build and sell at an obscene profit, homes in the next 10 years so more American families will be able to finance their future and open the door and say welcome to my beautiful low-quality pre-fab home.
In an ownership society, more rich people will own their health plans, and the poor will have the shaky confidence of owning an uninsured piece of their dismal retirement. We will always keep the promise of Social Security for our older workers, at least until I get elected. With the huge Baby Boom generation approaching retirement, many of our children and grandchildren understandably worry whether Social Security will be there when they need it because we have blown the surpluses. We must strengthen Social Security by allowing younger workers to save some of their taxes in a personal account -- a nest egg you can call your own, and government can never take away.
When my plan is complete, those of you who buy into the ownership regime will have your voice in government, through your corporate interests. Then we will be able to erect a wall between the classes while the low classes live and die in our service, without healthcare to lengthen and enhance the quality of their miserable lives.
In all these proposals, we seek to provide not just a reactionary government program, but a devious path -- a devious path to greater opportunity, more freedom, and more control over your own life and the lives of those beneath you.
This insidious path begins with our youngest Americans. To build a more hopeful America, we must help our children reach as far as their vision and character can take them once the effects of toxic environmental contamination have taken their toll developmentally. Tonight, I remind every parent and every teacher, I say to every child: No matter what your circumstance, no matter where you live -- your school will be the path to the promise of America.
We are transforming our schools by raising standards and focusing on results in the best communities. We are insisting on accountability, empowering parents and teachers, and making sure that local people are in charge of their schools except where I tell you what to do. By testing every child, we are identifying those who need help and we're providing a record level of funding according to my fuzzy mathematicians to get them that help, although I spent hundreds of billions of dollars fighting a war on the Iraqi boogie man, money which could have really helped in poor districts who cannot even afford to keep their buildings up to code, let alone acquire the resources to properly teach children the arts and sciences.
In northeast Georgia, Gainesville Elementary School is mostly Hispanic and 90 percent poor. And this year 90 percent of its students passed state tests in reading and math. The principal expresses the philosophy of his school this way: "We don't focus on what we can't do at this school; we focus on what we can do -- We do whatever it takes to get kids across the finish line." I do not want to hear about the failures of my NCLB. This is every school to me. This principal is challenging the soft bigotry of low expectations, and that is the spirit of our education reform irregardless of the disastrous outcome, and the commitment of our not French country: No dejaremos a ningún niño sin mucho dinero atrás. We will leave no rich child behind.
Now, my opponent may point out thousands of other schools, such as the huge percentage of Oregon high schools who failed the NCLB testing but posted some of the highest scores in the nation by more than half of students statewide on the SAT. This may look like my law does not jibe with what colleges may think that education is about. I say to all colleges: do not give in to the soft bigotry of helping those who need it most.
We are making progress -- and there is more to do. In this time of change, most new minimum wage and working poverty jobs are filled by people with at least two years of college, yet only about one in four students gets there. In our high schools, we will fund early intervention programs to help students at risk, with whatever is left over from conquering Iraq. We will place a new focus on fuzzy math and fundamentalist pseudoscience. As we make progress, we will require a rigorous exam before graduation to make sure these kids do not go out into the world with forbidden knowledge and critical thinking skills. By raising performance in our high schools by dictating what gets taught, and expanding Pell grants for low and middle income families, we will help more Americans start their career with a college diploma from a private, for-profit trade school rather than muddying up the campuses of the Ivy League
America's rich children must also have a healthy start in life. In a new term, we will lead an aggressive effort to enroll millions of poor children who are eligible but not signed up for the government's health insurance programs. They cannot run, they cannot hide. We will hunt them down and microchip them like the dogs they are. We will not allow a lack of attention, or information, to stand between these children and the assembly line health care we tell them they need.
Anyone who wants more details on my agenda can find them online. The web address is not very imaginative, but it's easy to remember: GeorgeWBush.com.
These changing times can be exciting times of expanded opportunity and paychecks for the mega wealthy. And here, you face a choice. My opponent's policies are dramatically different from ours. Senator Kerry opposed Brand w Medicare reform and health savings accounts. After supporting my education reforms, he now wants to dilute them with adequate funding and revised testing standards to give money to schools in the poor areas. He opposes legal and medical liability tort reform to protect corporations and incompetent doctors from monetary liability in cases of mis- mal- and nonfeasance. He opposed reducing the marriage penalty when it was tied to tax breaks for the rich, opposed doubling the child credit when it was tied to tax breaks for the rich, and opposed lowering income taxes for all who pay them, especially the rich. To be fair, there are some things my opponent is for -- he's proposed, according to my fuzzy mathematicians, more than two trillion dollars in new federal spending, and that's a lot, even for a senator from Massachusetts. He’s got nothing on my spending increases, though, and do not despair, I will drive us deeper into debt than a Senator from Massachusetts could ever imagine. To pay for that spending, he is running on a platform of increasing taxes for those who can afford it -- and that's the kind of promise a politician usually keeps.
His policies of tax and spend -- of expanding government rather than expanding opportunity -- are the policies of the past. We are on the path to the future where we expand spending and drive revenues down to increase the debt -- and we are not turning back.
In this world of change, some things do not change: the values we try to live by, the institutions that give our lives meaning and purpose. Our society rests on a foundation of responsibility and character and family commitment.
Because family and work are sources of stability and dignity, I support welfare reform that strengthens family and requires work. This way we can enslave the poor and lower unemployment numbers in the process. Because a caring society will value its weakest members as the cheapest labor, we must make a place for the unborn poor child, by reversing liberal personal freedoms for the poor. We will need these slave jobs to support Social Security in my plan. Because fundamentalist religious charities provide a safety net of fire and brimstone mercy and spare the rod, spoil the child compassion, our government must never discriminate in our punishment against them. Because the Christian fundamentalist religious union of a man and woman deserves an honored place in our society, I support the protection of marriage against activist judges by writing religious doctrine into the highest law of the land. And I will continue to appoint federal judges who know the difference between personal opinion and the strict interpretation of the law, and are willing to rule based on their bigoted and repressive personal opinions.
My opponent recently announced that he is the candidate of "conservative values," which must have come as a surprise to a lot of his supporters, nyuk nyuk nyuk, because everyone knows I have completely changed what conservative means. Now, there are some problems with this claim. If you say the heart and soul of America is found in Hollywood, I'm afraid you are not the candidate of conservative values. Now, ignore that my buddy Arnold fits that description, but he’s Austrian and like Nazis, and I like Nazis. If you voted against the bipartisan Defense of Marriage Act, which President Clinton signed, you are not the candidate of socially conservative values, that is more like the candidate of state’s rights values, which is so last century conservative. If you gave a speech, as my opponent did, calling the Reagan presidency eight years of "moral darkness," then you may be a lot of things, but the candidate of my rewritten conservative values is not one of them.
This election will also determine how America responds to the continuing danger of terrorism - and you know where I stand, slow and stupid. Three days after September 11th, I stood where Americans died, in the ruins of the Twin Towers, and I had not yot taken any action to bring Al Qaeda or Osama bin Laden to justice. Workers in hard hats were shouting to me, "Whatever it takes." A fellow grabbed me by the arm and he said, "Do not let me down." I knew then that I had let him down. Since that day, I wake up every morning from my tortured sleep thinking about how to better protect our country. I came up with the idea of dictatorship, so that’s where we’re heading. And we’re not turning back. I will never relent in defending rich America -- whatever it takes.
So we have fought the terrorists and been handed our asses across the earth -- not for pride, not for power, but because the lives of our citizens are at stake when I put them in harm’s way. Our inadequate strategy is clear. We have tripled funding for homeland security, thus expanding government spending in record fashion and trained half a million first responders, because we are determined to protect our homeland after an attack because I do not think I can prevent one. We are transforming our military into an outsourced missionary outfit who are not responsible to international law, and reforming and strengthening our intelligence services’ ability to support any lie I can think up. We are staying minimally on the offensive -- striking terrorists abroad and screwing up international operations against terrorism -- so we do not have to face the reality of our mistakes here at home. And we are working to advance Brand w liberty with our tanks and bombs in the broader Middle East, because freedom will bring a future of hope for our investors who specualte on iol, and the piece of the oil market we all want. And we will prevail over the poor and mistreated, no matter how many Americans and Iraqis and Afghanis I have to sacrifice.
Our holy war strategy against Islam is succeeding. Four years ago, Afghanistan was the home base of al-Qaida, Pakistan was a transit point for terrorist groups, Saudi Arabia was fertile ground for terrorist fundraising, Libya was secretly pursuing nuclear weapons, Iraq was a gathering threat, and al-Qaida was largely unchallenged as it planned attacks. Today, the government of a free Afghanistan is fighting terror in a perpetual American supported war for the forseeable future, Pakistan is capturing terrorist leaders every so often in a country where you could not throw a hand grenade without blowing up one, Saudi Arabia is making token raids and arrests in an effort to consolidate the power of the roayls, Libya is pretend dismantling its weapons programs, the army of a free Iraq is fighting for Brand w freedom against their neighbors, borthers and sisters, and more than three-quarters of al-Qaida's key members and associates four years ago have been detained or killed. And I like killing. We have led, many have joined, and America and the world are more fearful for their lives.
This progress involved careful diplomacy with double agents who were secretly working against us, clearly questionable moral purpose, and some tough decisions on how to make it so that my friends could profit best. And the toughest came on Iraq. We knew we had to lie and over-hype Saddam Hussein's record of aggression and fabricate his support for terror. We knew his long history of pursuing, even using, weapons of mass destruction. Now to make an illogical leap based on the lies I have fed you, we know that September 11th requires our country to think differently: We must, and we will, confront threats to America from impotent boogiemen before it is too late.
In Saddam Hussein, we saw a threat from a really scary boogieman. Members of both political parties, including my opponent and his running mate, saw the threat after we fed them our lies, and voted to authorize the use of force. We went to the United Nations Security Council, which passed a unanimous resolution demanding the dictator disarm, or face serious consequences. Leaders in the Middle East urged him to comply. After more than a decade of diplomacy, we gave Saddam Hussein another chance, a final chance, to meet his responsibilities to the civilized world. He again refused, and I faced the kind of decision that comes only to the Oval Office -- a decision no president except me would ask for, but must be prepared to make. Do I forget the lessons of September 11th and take the word of a madman, or do I take action to defend our country? Faced with that choice, I will defend America every time. I will also attack when I learn that the madman actually was closer to the truth than I was.
Because we acted to defend our country, the murderous regimes of Saddam Hussein and the Taliban are history, more than 50 million people have been liberated into anarchy and perpetual war, and democracy is coming to the broader Middle East where our influence is not wanted. In Afghanistan, terrorists have done everything they can to intimidate people -- yet more than 10 million citizens have registered to vote in the October presidential election -- a resounding endorsement of military democracy. Despite ongoing acts of violence, Iraq now has a strong Prime Minister, a national council, and national elections are scheduled for January, our own little military democracy little brother. Our Nation is standing with the conquered people of Afghanistan and Iraq, because when America gives its word, America must keep its word. Remember my word? I promised no nation building with our troops four years ago. I lied.
As importantly, we are serving a vital and historic cause that will make our country safer. Free societies in the conquered Middle East will be hopeful societies, which no longer feed resentments and breed violence for export because we will cleanse the population of those who oppose us. Free governments in the Middle East controlled by me will fight terrorists instead of harboring them, and that helps us keep the peace and oil prices stable. So our mission in Afghanistan and Iraq is clear: We will help new leaders to train their armies, and move toward elections, and get on the path of stability and democracy as quickly as possible. And then our troops will return home with the honor they have earned doing my dirty work.
Our troops know the historic importance of our work. One Army Specialist wrote home: "We are transforming a once sick society into a hopeful place... The various terrorist enemies we are facing in Iraq," he continued, "are really aiming at you back in the United States. This is a test of will for our country. We soldiers of yours are doing great and scoring victories in confronting the evil terrorists."
I could not have put it better. That young man is right to regurgitate the misinformation I have brainwashed him with -- our men and women in uniform are doing a superb job for America, even though it’s in the wrong place. Tonight I want to speak to all of them -- and to their families: You are involved in a struggle of historic proportion that I have misunderestimated and don’t think I can win. Because of your service and sacrifice, I will keep you in Iraq against your will. We are defeating a few of the terrorists where they live and plan, and while I ignore other areas like Chechnya and Sudan and Palestine, and making America safer while the Sudanese and Russians and Chechnyans and Israelis and Palestinians die. Because of you, women in Afghanistan are no longer shot in a sports stadium and because of me we have not caught bin Laden. Because of you, the people of Iraq no longer fear being executed and left in mass graves and because of me they are afraid of being blown up by an IED or suicide bomber. Because of you, the world is more just and will be more peaceful, once I have ordered you to conquer Iran and North Korea. We owe you our thanks, and we owe you something more. We will give you all the resources, all the tools, and all the support you need for victory, until the entire federal budget is funnelled into fighting wars across the globe.
Again, my opponent and I have different approaches. I proposed, and the Congress overwhelmingly passed, 87 billion dollars, with hundreds of millions of dollars of pork projects in funding needed by our troops doing battle in Afghanistan and Iraq. My opponent and his running mate voted against this money for bullets, and fuel, and vehicles, and body armor and golf programs in Florida. When asked to explain his vote, the Senator said, "I actually did vote for the 87 billion dollars before I voted against it." Then he said he was "proud" of that vote. Then, when pressed, he said it was a "complicated" matter. There is nothing complicated about supporting our troops in combat. And there is nothing complicated about adding hundreds of millions of dollars in pet projects for my supporters and their districts.
Our allies also know the historic importance of our work. About 40 nations stand beside us in Afghanistan, and some 30 in Iraq. And I deeply appreciate the courage and wise counsel of leaders like Prime Minister Howard, and President Kwasniewski, and Prime Minister Berlusconi -- and, of course, Prime Minister Tony Blair, who has ruined his political career for me. And, although their support is more imaginary than real, their small percentage of money and troops and wavering support is what I call the Coalition of the Willing.
Again, my opponent takes a different approach. In the midst of war, he has called America's allies, quote, a "coalition of the coerced and the bribed." That would be nations like Great Britain, Poland, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Denmark, El Salvador, Australia, and others -- allies that I have coerced and bribed deserve the respect of all rich Americans, not the scorn of a politician. I respect every soldier, from every country, who serves beside us in the hard work of rewriting history in favor of my nihlist vision. Rich America is grateful, and rich America will not forget.
The people we have freed won't forget either. Thaey’ll have our troops there for yewars to remind them. Not long ago, seven Iraqi men came to see me in the Oval Office. They had "X"s branded into their foreheads, and their right hands had been cut off by Saddam Hussein's secret police, the sadistic punishment for imaginary crimes. So I shook their hands nyuk nyuk nyuk. No seriously, during our emotional visit one of the Iraqi men used his new prosthetic hand to slowly write out, in Arabic, a prayer for God to bless America. I am proud that our country remains the hope of the oppressed, and the greatest force for good on this earth. I know we will be able to show them all that our God is greater than their god.
Stay tuned for the conclusion.
