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

To: greenspirit who wrote (46177)	10/14/2000 1:41:10 PM
From: Frank Griffin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

I deal with an attorney here in Fl. who is from the Boston area. He said he finally decided it was time to move with Barney Frank his Congressman, Teddy Kennedy his Senator and Michael Dukakis his Governor. High taxes and lousy representation.

To: greenspirit who wrote (46177)	10/14/2000 5:43:18 PM
From: PartyTime	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

>>>So how do you explain the sesspool which is Boston Harbor?<<< You obviously haven't been to Boston recently. Although not complete, we're a long way from when Bush visited Boston during his campaign against Mike Dukakis to make an issue of the harbor. In fact, the harbor islands have been cleaned and are now open to tourism. I suspect without Regan and Bush that harbor would have been cleaned long time ago. Please do visit, Michael. >>>The air might be cleaner because so many people have moved out of the the Boston area to New Hampshire, Florida, Texas and here to Washington. I personally know about half-dozen New Englanders who moved here in 1992 and have stayed.<<< Michael, you don't have a clue. True, lots of folks have moved out of Massachusetts into New Hampshire. Hey, have you noticed yet New Hampshire isn't as Republican as it used to be--LOL! In fact, the Live Free or Die state has had a Democrat in the governor's office for the past two terms. And I believe I'm correct in saying that both Bushes lost in New Hampshire. Florida? I don't know a single New England state which doesn't have folks moving to Florida. Ain't that part of the American Dream? Or are we all supposed to stay put and dumb in front of our television sets? I sincerely doubt there's been a migration of folks from Massachusetts to Texas--please prove that one! Washington, DC? You mean you don't have states rights yet and you need some Mass folks to help yers out on that issue? Sorry, Michael, but you're out in right field with no glove. Whatta ya doin' out there? >>>Why have they elected to stay you might ask? Because of the punishing high taxes in the Boston area, and because too many people are stuck in old ways of socialistic thinking.<<< Again, you don't have a clue. Except for some migration to New Hamshire, which was natural given inner city problems and some elderly moving to Florida, Mass residents continue as Mass residents. In fact, many of your high tech investments originated from the Boston area, the city has the best medical centers in the nation and is home to the educational elite given its many universities. Freedom is a wonderful concept and, I dare say, it's understood very nicely in Massachusetts. Fact is, Michael, you dodged what I was writing about. I described how this morning I looked out into the ocean at a rising sun with a still very full moon behind me--I live on a jut of land reaching out into Boston's harbor, ocean on one side/bay on the other--and I noted how pollution had disappeared. With the morning newspaper nearby I began thinking of politics. And this led me to my conclusion that whereas in past years there used to be a horizon of pollution hovering over the city, today, that's no longer the case. Why? Because of clean air legislation. And who supported it? The Democrats. Who opposed it for so long? The Republicans. Same with recycling and a host of other environmental friendly changes which the Democrats have initiated and so long opposed by the GOPwingers. Michael, me thinks you should switch parties!