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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: rich4eagle who wrote (5817)	9/23/1999 7:44:00 AM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 769667

In a capitalist system, the market is the largest determinant of success or failure, and therefore, although governmental policy may have an effect, it is only one factor among many influencing the market. In a situation where the Administration had comparatively little success launching initiatives, it did not have much effect on the market, good or bad. That is what I said, and it is perfectly compatible with saying that Reagan put pressures on the Soviet economy that pushed it towards reform. Bush did about the only thing that he could do under the circumstances. The People's Republic of China may be doing its job trying to steal our secrets, but we are neither obliged to like it, nor to help them. The Republican Party never abandoned NAFTA. Some questioned the Mexican bailout, some supported it. The budget is not as big as it has ever been, and Clinton has been depleting resources that must be replaced in adventures like Kosovo. The fact that it is the largest defense budget in the world is neither here nor there if it cannot meet its commitments.....