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

To: greenspirit who wrote (145109)	5/13/2001 11:54:05 PM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Michael, Blah, blah, blah. Bush/Powell frequently talked about rescuing Bosnia and Haiti, but were too scared to do anything about it. Clinton took action and succeeded. It must be tough for you to come to terms with the fact that Clinton was a very successful military commander. Scumbria

To: greenspirit who wrote (145109)	5/14/2001 2:49:18 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Mike, it seems that many wish to argue over one's freedom to chose what activity or sport one wishes to pursue for fun. It's about as productive as arguing over what the weather will be at the north pole ten years back. But it seems that some want to insult and argue over the inane. Today I happened to hear Newt Gingrich give a presentation about he calls the The Age of Transitions. It was a great talk. It speaks to using common sense to look forward to new solution instead of wasting time on current bureaucratic messes. I assume that it will be rebroadcast on cspan and recommend it to all. The text more or less is published on line. newt.org EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 1. We are already experiencing the dramatic changes brought on by computers, communications, and the Internet. The combination of science and technology with entrepreneurs and venture capitalists has created a momentum of change which is extraordinary. Yet these changes will be overshadowed in the next twenty years by an emerging even bigger set of changes based on a combination of biology, information and nanoscience (the science of objects at a billionth of a meter, from one to four hundred atoms in size). This new and as yet unappreciated wave of change will combine with the already remarkable pattern of change brought on by computers, communication and the Internet to create a continuing series of new breakthroughs with new goods and services. We will be constantly in transition as each new idea is succeeded by an even better one. This will be an Age of Transitions and it will last for at least a half-century. 2. In the age of transitions, the way we acquire goods and services are rapidly evolving in the private sector and in our personal lives. Government and bureaucracy are changing at a dramatically slower rate and the gap between the potential goods and services, productivity, efficiencies and conveniences being created, and the traditional behaviors of government and bureaucracies are getting wider. 3. The language of politics and government is increasingly isolated from the language of everyday life. Political elites increasingly speak a language that is a separate dialect from the words people use to describe their daily lives and their daily concerns. The result in part is that the American people increasingly tune out politics. 4. Eventually a political movement will develop a program of change for government, which will provide greater goods and services at lower and lower costs. When that movement can explain its new solutions in the language of everyday life it will gain a decisive majority as people opt for better lives through better solutions by bringing government into conformity with the entrepreneurial systems they are experiencing in the private sector. 5. Understanding the Age of Transitions, applying its principles to create better solutions for delivery of government goods and services, and developing and communicating a program in the language of everyday life - so people hear it and believe it despite the clutter and distractions of the traditional language of politics and government - is a very complex process and requires thought and planning. ............................. tom watson tosiwmee