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

To: American Spirit who wrote (2412)	10/14/2000 2:22:59 AM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10042

Please everyone read the Vanity Fair article on GWB last month's issue. Then you will know everything you need to know about the man. Seems not one of you has read it though that was why I originally posted. If there's s similar article on Al I'd love to read it too. I'm talking about personal record. History of his life. True personal history not political marketing image.

To: American Spirit who wrote (2412)	10/14/2000 2:44:54 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10042

They just want rice to eat Yeah... that what folks are saying about Saddam Hussein.. Lift the embargo so the people don't suffer. The major problem with this hypothesis is that your assuming the the political leadership and the military in both of these nations really care that the average civilian is suffering. Everyone knows that they have first pick on any food in the nation. There is plenty of "rice" to be eaten should the politiicians and general opt to permit it.

To: American Spirit who wrote (2412)	10/14/2000 2:45:18 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Respond to of 10042

The Democrats have become the fiscally conservative party now. ROFLMAO!!!!! You are obviously diagonally parked in a parallel universe.... Bush has no plan for paying down the debt at all And neither does Gore.... Remember... the SS surplus has to be placed into T-bills, or public debt. It cannot be placed in private investments. All that money that will eventually be paid out to retirees will have to be created by additional debt, or selling US debt to someone else. I've noticed that no one wishes to discuss the fine details of just how a nation pays off its debt... Wouldn't it be better if that money were invested in private market instruments that improved economic strength, rather than increasing governmental indebtedness?

To: American Spirit who wrote (2412)	10/14/2000 7:25:38 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10042

We could take out North Korea in about 72 hours. They have no reason in the world to attack us. They just want rice to eat. Their people are so hungry they are eating grass and straw. You fear them? We could take out North Korea in a lot less then 72 hours with a massive nuclear strike. Barring that we could not "take out North Korea in 72 hours". North Korea is a totalitarian comunist dictatorship (which is one of the main reasons they don't have enough rice to eat), that may allready have nuclear weapons and will probably have missles capable of reaching the US in not to many years. An offical in the Chinese government allready hinted that the US shouldn't involve itself with protecting Taiwan because we wouldn't want to trade Los Angeles for Taipei. Do you want North Korea to be able to make those threats soon as well? Tim