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

To: American Spirit who wrote (138322)	4/14/2001 11:44:59 AM
From: Thomas A Watson	Respond to of 769667

Dear Amer, you say >>>You're off your rocker if you think the S+L debacle was money well-"invested" You threw out the 600 billion figure. Do you believe the 600 billion of lets say gold was taken and buried someplace for a net removal of that worth. Do you believe in other Government programs that trillions have not been stolen also. This is simply the way it is. I don't like it, I don't want it but it is the way it is. You want to hold one person as absolutely responsible because a law he signed enabled good but also was flawed and created opportunities for theft. Are we just discussing the TAX code. You appear to me to be unable to step out of the box and try thinking in a different perspective. But let's go back and look at another indicator of you reading comprehension. Amer says >>>>> And who ever said I want a friggin' welfare state? What I value the environment I am a socialist wanting everyone on the dole? In the entire post that you refer to you will not find the word you. I was describing a way of thinking and it was presented as the way that I describe as vacant liberal minds. I also asked questions as to what cost and what benefit different paths provide. But I clearly did not say that you held any belief or that you wanted anything. I with analogy and questions suggested alternatives on how one looks at what has happened. I've found over and over again that simple thinkers need to reduce things to black and white or totally bad or totally good. The need is for justification of a total belief system and does not allow for alternatives. This is what I see in the words and ideas that you express. tom watson tosiwmee