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

To: Rock_nj who wrote (24291)	7/13/2000 1:24:09 AM
From: Father Terrence	Respond to of 769670

It is hard to prove that the wealth of the US could be trillions more, or that without government "help" the poor would be better off, we'd have better education and the technology we have today we could have had in 1950. But there it is. As for the Internet, I grant you that it was originally a project to safeguard information and the chain-of-command from nuclear attack, but the real transformation took place when private universities around the world began to tap into it as a storehouse for information and international dialog. The students then became involved as rudimentary PCs were created (many home-built or kits). Then the early 90s arrived and the rest, as they say, is history. Most government policies inhibit the creation of wealth; they do not augment it. Many are designed to discourage it.