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

To: TigerPaw who wrote (34098)	9/1/2000 12:41:19 PM
From: J.B.C.	Respond to of 769667

I now have proof that a Republican administration would save taxpayer's a tremendous amount of money: >Q: How many Democrats does it take to screw in a light bulb? >A: 5,446 > >14 White House aides to appear on the Sunday morning news shows >denying that the bulb is burned out. > >8 White House aides to blame the previous administration. > >4 major news anchors to call the Republicans mean-spirited. > >243 children to stand behind Clinton as he explains the impact of >burned-out bulbs on our children and how the mean-spirited >Republicans want our children to grow up in darkness > >1 First Lady to say changing the light bulb takes a village. > >9 Hollywood stars to testify as experts because they played a movie >role in which they changed light bulbs. > >15 White House spin-doctors to put the best light on it. > >103 U.S. representatives to tell us only Washington, D.C., really >knows how to change a light bulb. > >1 president to tell us that he feels our darkness and has 18 new >federal programs to prevent burned out light bulbs, and that he has >vivid memories of black light bulbs burning out during his childhood >in Arkansas. > >42 cruise missiles to take the heat off the burned-out bulb. > >1 campaign advisor to recommend the use of red light bulbs. > >1 vice president to inform us of the environmental impact of changing >a light bulb. > >2 White House advisors to devise a tax on those who are unfairly able >to change their own light bulbs. > >1 dead White House lawyer who can be blamed for anything that can't >be pinned on the Republicans. > >1 White House ghost who can retrieve the light bulb files that no one >else knows anything about. > >5,000 bureaucrats to make sure that the bulb is changed correctly, >doesn't offend anyone, doesn't impact the environment, doesn't >unfairly benefit one group, doesn't harm anyone during the >installation, and is up to 1,945 specifications for light bulbs. > >** > >Q: How many Republicans does it take to screw in a light bulb? A: 471. > >12 to investigate Clinton's involvement in the failure of the old bulb. > >23 to deregulate the light-bulb industry. > >16 to cut funding for alternative lighting R&D. > >34 to cut the marginal tax rate on high-wattage light bulbs. > >9 to threaten trade sanctions if Germany and Japan don't start buying >more 110-volt bulbs. > >53 to design a block grant so the states can change the bulb. > >41 to chat with defense contractors about equipping everyone in the >building with night-vision gear instead. > >And 283 to pass a law making it illegal to discuss naked bulbs, or >screwing anything, on the Internet.

To: TigerPaw who wrote (34098)	9/1/2000 12:49:25 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

George W. Bush - Republican As president, Governor Bush would support policies designed to make the Internet a worldwide duty-free zone. He would also strengthen security protecting American technical-intellectual property. by Patricia Fusco of internetnews.com Vital stats George W. Bush was born July 6, 1946 in New Haven, Connecticut, but grew up in Midland and Houston, Texas. He received a bachelor's degree in history from Yale University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. George W. Bush served as an F-102 pilot for the Texas Air National Guard. He began his career in the energy industry in Midland and worked in the oil and gas business from 1975 until 1986. After stumping with his father's 1988 presidential campaign he assembled the group of partners that purchased the Texas Rangers baseball franchise in 1989. Bush served as managing general partner of the Texas Rangers until he was elected Governor on November 8, 1994. George W. Bush and his wife Laura have teenage twin daughters. Barbara and Jenna are named after their grandmothers. When Bush wants to relax you may find this Cancer water-child bass fishing at his lake home in East Texas, or at a Ranger's game. George W. Bush is currently in his second term a Governor of the State of Texas. During Governor Bush's term in office, Texas has posted phenomenal high tech job growth: More than 62,000 high tech jobs were created in Texas between 1995 and 1997. Governor Bush created the second largest government-operated telecommunications network in the nation. The Telecommunications Service Division provides discounted Internet access, video conferencing, and data communications services to schools, colleges, universities, libraries, hospitals, and telemedicine providers. In 1996, Governor Bush created the Science and Technology Council to devise a strategic plan that would ensure Texas remains at the forefront of high tech job growth. As a result of the Bush initiative the Texas Legislature enacted a research-and-development tax credit to help the state attract high-skilled, high-paying jobs. Net tax cutter Governor Bush also cut the Internet access and data processing tax out of the Texas State law books. Effective since October 1999, the first $25.00 of a monthly charge for Internet access is exempt from sales tax, according to Section 151.325 of Senate Bill 441. The exemption applied to all purchases of Internet access services, but did not include telecommunications services unless it was part of a service bundle for Internet access. Like other presidential candidates, George W. Bush supports extending the moratorium on taxing Internet sales at least through 2004. Several candidates want to make the Internet tax moratorium permanent. As President, George W. Bush said he would be committed to "ensuring an environment, in which the spirit of freedom and innovation that sparked a revolution in Silicon Valley could continue to grow," worldwide. Chances are George W. Bush's presidential Internet inclinations would mirror Governor Bush's initiatives. High-tech platform George W. Bush's presidential platform has three goals for high technology -- remove international barriers to the global marketplace, develop a high-tech work force to further drive U.S. economic growth, and massive tort reform to prohibit frivolous Web litigation. Bush said he would fight to tear down the international barriers to Internet innovations while ensuring that new restrictions are not erected. "The current system of export controls is broken," Bush said. "Too often, the federal government's export policies are arbitrary and irrational -- overtaken by the very technology they attempt to regulate. Yesterday's supercomputer is today's laptop. Yet current rules don't take this into account. And there has been too little opportunity for America's high tech exporters to make their case about what should be restricted and what should not." Bush said he would make the Internet a worldwide duty-free zone and tear down non-tariff barriers to trade in information technology. In doing so, Bush said that he would step up efforts to combat piracy of American ideas and intellectual property, while promoting the development of global standards for e-commerce. isp-planet.com