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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Cogito who wrote (87152)	12/18/2000 5:12:16 PM
From: Skeeter Bug	Respond to of 132070

allen, yes, i'm being too hard on clinton. i'm expected more from the man who said his administration would be the "most ethical ever." did you see the green mile? great movie that makes you think deeply on many levels. john coffee (not the correct spelling, but i missed the credits) said something like "he killed them because of their love for one another" when speaking of billy the kid (the real killer of the girls). while this is a stretched analogy, no doubt, that kind of summarizes my feelings about the democratic party and their head couple. they prey on people for personal gain. they will wreck anything, run anybody over, crush anyone that gets in their way. think about the poor democratic lady who developed the butterfly ballot - her job is under assault from democrats. the democrats are supposed to represent reasoned, fiscally responsible, goodness. they don't. don't get me wrong. republicans are no better. however, where republicans look like wolves, democrats are wolves in sheep clothing. they use the concept of goodness as their foundation to perform their evil (self serving, self enriching policy). sure, the pubs are no better. they say "greed is good" and act like it. but, just like billy the kid was somehow worse than all the other killers on the green mile b/c he abused people's goodness to reach his selfish goal, so i see bill clinton and al gore as nasty sobs. would i rather have newt gingrich or bill clinton as president? bill clinton by a long shot, though i detest either of those choices. >>I'd say greed is close to universal, and nobody has wanted to rock the boat.<< totally agree. every participant and decision maker has a lot of blame. >>1 - Pay off the national debt. If it means not giving people a break on taxes in the short term, fine. Significant tax cuts can come later. Pay debt while you have surpluses. Don't assume surpluses will continue.<< we can't be in more agreement on this issue. but, alas, it won't happen, imho. >>2 - Enact some legislation to help educate people about the real costs of credit card and other commercial debt. Perhaps that would do more good than trying to regulate card issuers. Obviously, though, something has to be done.<< i'm 100% for personal finance in classes beginning in kindergarden. >>The biggest problem I have with blaming Clinton for our current economic problems is that it does no good. It gives us a convenient scapegoat while doing nothing to actually deal with the situation.<< a very good point. clinton no longer matters at the decision making margin. somehow, dubya doesn't give me warm fuzzies - but i'm always waiting for a nice surprise. ps - congress' "job," as defined by their constituents, is to GET much more from the govt more than they GIVE. that is our BIG problem. other forms of govt have much larger problems, but this is still a BIG problem, nonetheless. reason and sound policy loses out to greed.