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

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (59843)	11/5/2000 5:44:27 PM
From: SecularBull	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

If things are so expensive for Californians, perhaps they should move to the Bible Belt... Why is government responsible for any of that??? LoF

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (59843)	11/5/2000 8:06:24 PM
From: Tunica Albuginea	Respond to of 769670

Lizzie...WHAT " Economic Pubblications have you been reading " crediting the high tech economy with the current expansion . ( must be The Berkley Liberal Rag ). Again shows you the limited, truly Liberal, education Techies get today. The reasons for this expansion: Started in 1980 When Reagan cut, cut, cut, taxes and spending thus Investment returned. Technology helped but was not No. 1. Fear of Clinton/Dems to tax the Internet after Repubblicans portrayed them as tax and spenders ( otherwise The Internet , under Jimmy Carter would be already have been heavily taxed by now, vbg ) Was continued by Gingrich and Republicans 100 days forcing Clinton to cut Welfare and spending ( he voted against that BTW ). Also Low oil prices and Low Health Care ( HMO s ). All that is going away now ( cheap oil and health ). Look for California's Economy to tank soon as a result of this, rising wages , inflation , high interest rates to curb inflation. Nasdaq to go to 2500, cheers, TA ================================= Message #59843 from Lizzie Tudor at Nov 5, 2000 5:42 PM OK if you want to believe that, but every economic publication I read credits the high tech economy with the current expansion. And most of the high-tech people I know (including myself) consider themselves to be more libertarian than anything else. Or maybe a better characterization is fiscally conservative + socially liberal. So then you have a choice to make wrt 2 evils, on the one hand there are the dems with their excessive govt spending which we know doesn't work - and they are doing it again with their pandering to the elderly and this drug entitlement... vs. the republicans with their bible-toting obsolete values preaching in states like Ca where houses cost 750K and it is imperative that both parents work - not to mention their scary agenda of converting everyone to Christian when we need to import 200K workers from India a year in the bay area alone. So Gore is a bit of a centrist wrt economics and Bush is less of a social conservative than say Quayle (who is a nut)... hooray - at least we have 2 choices, guess we should be grateful for that.

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (59843)	11/5/2000 8:17:00 PM
From: Les H	Respond to of 769670

Gore is for expanding the H1-B. From what I read, Bush seems to want to take the limits off all together. If India and China were smart, they would aggregate their hires-for-export and sell them to the highest bidder. Other countries are looking at recreating the US miracle. <g> SUVs would be very popular in China and Tibet. These federal politicians seem to never prepare for the inevitable downturn and the strains these influxes will impose on housing, roads, schools, medically uninsured, etc.