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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: BSGrinder who wrote (81758)	6/19/2000 12:23:00 PM
From: Les H	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

I think we disagree regarding "opportunism". Opportunism is where one is able to obtain advantage. The situations I cited regarding legislative defeats on balanced budget and welfare reform were just plain political survival. I'll have to give it to him for greatly enlarging the Earned Income Credit (which should have been eliminated long ago) to offset Welfare Reform. I'm sure there's a large continuum on the left as there are on the right. The Clintons stated in a speech in 1997 some of their pet programs that I named and their goal was to gradually move toward government funding and administration of those programs. They admitted that the 1994 effort was a failure and that nationalization would take a long time. I don't care whether it's corporate, individual, or governmental criminality. It's all the same. The government is one of the worst abusers of environmental, labor, and financial laws. Just look at all the nuclear and chemical cleanup efforts at DOE plants and at DOD facilities. Even the raiding of the Social Security Trust fund would qualify as an abuse. Wasn't there some corporate law on underfunding of pension plans? I guess the federal government is not subject to that either.

To: BSGrinder who wrote (81758)	6/19/2000 1:16:00 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 132070

Clinton is not a leftist with some conspiritorial socialist agenda. ...No wonder the Republicans hate him so much - he has stolen their role and is doing a better job of selling it to the American people. Clinton is not of the far left, but there is a difference between him and conservative Republicans on such issues as taxes, government involvement in medical care, affirmitive action, and environmental regulations. With the more liberal or "moderate" wing of the Republican party there may not be a lot of difference. Tim