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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (123426)1/24/2001 1:28:46 PM
From: Joe Btfsplk  Read Replies (1) of 769670
 
Your post is a fine example of pervasive and flawed beliefs and assumptions. Absent an understanding of economics, it’s easy to believe that extended orders can be designed according to moral intuition.

With regard to large money interests funding campaigns and getting their interests attended.…both parties do it…the guys who gave...will want their money's worth

Yup, that’s politics, squeezing baksheesh from aggregations of capital that ought be using it to pursue further profits through better ways of satisfying consumer demands.

First the hucksters in power interfere with decisions that should be guided by consumer spending. Very quickly your “large money interests” try to buy defense from their depredators. It naturally follows that they then use contributions to buy influence that they can’t earn in the marketplace. Then the churls are assembled and taught to holler chants about “campaign finance reform”, in lieu of recognizing the source of the evil.

Think of popular bills that benefit..…

Each and every of your suggestions stink. It’s curious how many good people can’t take a clue from what has happened where medicine has been socialized even more than here, let alone the results of planned and directed economies.

Tax deductions are swindled from other potential uses. Insurance is not a proper provenance of government; it would best be left to the discovery process of competition, in hard cases to charity. And political candidates don’t need free time, stolen from the pocket of usn’s who indirectly pay conglomerates to use spectrum. Politicians mostly need tar and feathers.
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