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

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (123426)	1/23/2001 9:47:32 PM
From: ManyMoose	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769670

Bush got his campaign funds from guys like me who can't really spare it. I made several contributions starting in the primaries and it hurt. But was it worth it? Did I get my money's worth? Let me tell you I feel as though a ton has been lifted off my shoulders, and I'm just a freedom loving government employee sick of the last eight years. If you are not making your little contributions to the candidate of your choice, then YOU are the problem, not the corporations who give to both sides, just in case. re: <<the guys who gave him 450 million dollars will want their money's worth.>>

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (123426)	1/23/2001 9:57:03 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Respond to of 769670

Dear dear dear nadine, What the Republicans of Character, Compassion, Courage and Civility really feared about Clinton was that he sold national secrets to foreign operatives for funds so that the Democrats could catch up to Republicans of Character, Compassion, Courage and Civility in fund-raising. ToM Watson tosiwmee

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (123426)	1/24/2001 8:44:34 AM
From: George Coyne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Think of popular bills that benefit ordinary Americans but not the large corporate interests. A patient's bill of rights (with any teeth in it)?(I suppose you are against tort reform) Medicare prescription drug coverage (that doesn't give away the store to the large pharmaceuticals)?Who will decide that? Affordable (According to whom? How about FREE?)health insurance for the 44 million uninsured Americans? Full tax deduction for all health insurance premiums? (That's fine.) Campaign finance reform? How about requiring the media conglomerates to give some free time to political candidates in return for their free use of spectrum? Campaign finance reform is fine, but the rest is much too socialist for me.

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (123426)	1/24/2001 1:28:46 PM
From: Joe Btfsplk	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Your post is a fine example of pervasive and flawed beliefs and assumptions. Absent an understanding of economics, it’s easy to believe that extended orders can be designed according to moral intuition. With regard to large money interests funding campaigns and getting their interests attended.…both parties do it…the guys who gave...will want their money's worth Yup, that’s politics, squeezing baksheesh from aggregations of capital that ought be using it to pursue further profits through better ways of satisfying consumer demands. First the hucksters in power interfere with decisions that should be guided by consumer spending. Very quickly your “large money interests” try to buy defense from their depredators. It naturally follows that they then use contributions to buy influence that they can’t earn in the marketplace. Then the churls are assembled and taught to holler chants about “campaign finance reform”, in lieu of recognizing the source of the evil. Think of popular bills that benefit..… Each and every of your suggestions stink. It’s curious how many good people can’t take a clue from what has happened where medicine has been socialized even more than here, let alone the results of planned and directed economies. Tax deductions are swindled from other potential uses. Insurance is not a proper provenance of government; it would best be left to the discovery process of competition, in hard cases to charity. And political candidates don’t need free time, stolen from the pocket of usn’s who indirectly pay conglomerates to use spectrum. Politicians mostly need tar and feathers.