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

To: Tom Clarke who wrote (7036)	11/21/2000 9:51:56 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Respond to of 10042

Re: [Bilderberg] Sounds like a high tone Chamber of Commerce. Sort of... and when the largest shopping mall in the world --ie the U.S.A.-- is gonna have a new "manager" your VIP Chamber just scrambles to have "a say" in the new management.... After all, we're talking about an annual $300+ billion trade across the Atlantic. We're also dealing with NATO, with American ITs (without which Europe couldn't upgrade its corporate environment), with an ailing euro, with Europe's need of Africa as a convenient outlet for its ore-processing companies as well as for its utilities.... As you can see, we're dealing with a lot of complex issues.... Gus.

To: Tom Clarke who wrote (7036)	11/21/2000 11:34:41 AM
From: long-gone	Respond to of 10042

Principled Politics Is Passé by Tibor R. Machan Most people who take part in politics these days seem to believe it is just fine to vote themselves some goodies at other people's expense. Senior citizens, for example, are told by politicians that they should vote for them so their prescription drugs could be paid for from taxes that others will pay. The AARP, the major lobby group for seniors, actually recruits members with the promise that its lobbyist will work hard to extract benefits for them from the US Treasury. Other groups want protection against foreign competition, support for their artistic works or price supports for their farming products. That is the main goal of modern American politics: get someone else to pay for what you want and need. In the ensuing round-robin picking of pockets everyone hopes, quite irrationally, that he or she will come out ahead. Indeed, that noble democratic activity, voting, is now being promoted not as a matter of taking part in the selection of one's impartial public officials but because you can only get your goodies if you vote for the people who promise to "fight for you" in Washington and bring back to you your piece of the collective pie. It is all focused on divvying up the loot taken by government. And there is thought to be nothing at all wrong with this. Actually, such a pitch for people's political participation is how politics gets corrupted. The most Draconian kind of campaign finance reform isn't going to put the slightest dent (cont) zolatimes.com