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Politics : Al Gore vs George Bush: the moderate's perspective -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Selectric II who wrote (2400)	10/14/2000 12:22:30 AM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 10042

You are dead wrong. The Garn-St.Germaine Act of 1982 (and I quote from "The Greatest Ever Bank Robbery By Martin Mayer) "took all restrictions off interest rates S+L's could offer for insured deposits and most restrictions off what they could do with the money". This is the bill Reagan happily signed into law at the advice of all his cronies (the insinuation in the book being that RR didn't really understand all that fine print) and this is the bill which caused the entire S+L debacle. As Reagan signed and posed for a photo op he exclaimed "This is a great day for America!" The final bill started at 600 billion and has been charging us all interest ever since. Maybe one trillion in the end especially if we don't pay down the debt because of a massive tax-break and a slowing economy. Which will also cause interest rates and inflation to rise. All this from so-called conservatives who are obviously not very conservative when it comes to fiscal policy and allowing cronies to blatantly rip off the tax-payers. Almost as bad was james Watt's public lands giveaway to industry during the RR administration. The next huge boodoggle if Bush gets elected will be Reagan's dream Star Wars. A total unnecessary 400 billion list price (expect huge overruns) system which doesn't work yet and has never worked and may never work and will also during our ABM treaties on their ears and piss off every other country in the world. To defend us again whom? North Korea? The poorest nation in Asia? That's who Bush says it's for. "Rogue nations like North Koran and Iraq" (whose dictator his father left in power over the protests of Senator Lieberman and many others). Clinton is now planning a mind-blowing trip to North Korea. So much for the need for Star Wars but Bush will try to fund it anyway. Who gains? Not the tax-payers. Not the US military. That's money taken away from conventional military systems. That's also enough to take care of every poor or sick person in America plus a lot more. Okay maybe China is a serious threat but we just signed the free trade bill with them to KEEP from having to face that military threat in the future. Also because we have a lot invested over there and want a big piece more. Why do you republicans deflect and evade every truth and try to blame it on the Dems even when it painfully obvious they are ignoring the proven truth? Just like Bush is trying to blame pollution and terrible child healthcare records on Anne Richards. He was in power for eight years and did nothing until the 7 1/2 year when he knew he was running for national office. In those 7 1/2 years both problems got more and more grievous in Texas. Only in the past nine months have the child insurance levels inched up a tiny 1%. Yet he deflects and blames Clinton becuse the national average went down .005%. The evidence and the truth is clear. And if you think Reagan was ignorant signing that bill he didn't understand (or care to) think about what Bush might sign when his all-wise advisors tell him it's the right thing to do. Bush is a grat poseur but for substance and values I find him a hollow puppet and deep-down clearly mean-spirited. "What? Me a guy who doesn't care about children? I love children!" So why didn't you take care of them, GW?