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To: Rarebird who wrote (56890)	8/1/2000 3:50:46 AM
From: long-gone	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116960

<<The reality is that Clinton/Gore's economic policies are fairly moderate or centrist and pro equity and high tech. >> That sir is a load of BS! Their economic policies can neither be called "fair" or "moderate" in regards to the rural US! Were that true then they would not allow the enviro-wacos to destroy property rights & ruin property values in much of the rural midwestern & western US! Their "no-cut" policies in regard to even private forests have 50- YES thats right FIFTY - wild fires out of control across the west! Total loss from fires & the land slides & flash floods which follow are far from "centerist" & are advocated by only environuts which don't live here! For every one techie or New Yorker that has led the media to believe these are the "best of times" I can show you a farmer, rancher, miner, or any number of other small town people which find the inverse true! Our balance of trade is at or near an all time low! Our military spending & readiness on the skids! Our teachers don't teach & our students don't learn more than how to take pills for ADD! I think just 4 years of a Republican Congress, Senate, & even with (what you call a moderate) Bush, things will change in ways you can't even guess. He will follow the desires of his party. Here's a market tip, Invest in Ruger & gold mining.

To: Rarebird who wrote (56890)	8/1/2000 10:11:39 AM
From: terryswift	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116960

I expect you will be more than a little surprised with a Bush presidency. The Republicans have finally learned what the Democrats have known for years. The Dems have sounded like Ronald Reagan on the campaign trail and have then governed from the left. It looks like the Republicans have finally learned to talk like moderates while, I suspect, they will govern from the right of center. Not the far right, but from the right. As for no differences between the two... bunk. From tax cuts to defense to education vouchers to a wide array of social issues, Bush will sign legislation that Clinton has vetoed. There is also the Supreme Court. Bush will appoint strict constructionists (read conservative) that interpret the Constitution, not legislate from the bench. For the past 40 years the left has depended on liberal judges to legislate from the bench and advance an agenda they could never have passed in Congress. The stock market could care less who is president. Clinton has had zero affect on this market. All he has done is give us the largest tax increase in history, which is hardly friendly to the stock market. No, the stock market feeds on liquidity and easy money, and Easy Al and his band of merry pranksters at the Fed have been the movers and shakers behind the stock market. That won't change. Easy Al doesn't want to see the Japan scenario repeated here. He is letting the air out of the bubble, hopefully slowly, but it could crash. The market will definitely be lower by November than it is now, possibly much lower. That will not help Gore, but I expect it won't hurt him much either.