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

To: Bill who wrote (154953)	6/22/2001 12:22:58 PM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Bill, Remember a guy named Ross Perot who ran for President in 1992? Do you remember the issue he ran on? Scumbria

To: Bill who wrote (154953)	6/22/2001 12:39:26 PM
From: Scumbria	Respond to of 769670

Bill, Maybe this will snap you back to reality, and out of your Limbaugh induced brainwashing. Please read Perot's and Clinton's remarks from the 1992 debate. GIBBONS: Mr. Perot, aside from the deficit, what government policy or policies do you really want to do something about? What really sticks in your craw about conditions in this country--beside the deficit--that you would want to fix as president? PEROT: The debt and the deficit. ....... (Applause) LEHRER: Governor Clinton, you have one minute. Governor? GOVERNOR CLINTON: I would just point out, on the point Mr. Perot made, I agree that we need to cut spending in Congress. I've called for a 25 percent reduction in congressional staffs and expenditures. But the White House staff increased its expenditures by considerably more than Congress has in the last four years under the Bush administration, and Congress has actually spent a billion dollars less than President Bush asked them to spend. Now, when you out-spend Congress you're really swinging. ...... We've gotta get this country growing again and this economy strong again or we can't bring down the deficit. Economic growth is the key to the future of this country. msu.edu

To: Bill who wrote (154953)	6/22/2001 12:49:29 PM
From: Scumbria	Respond to of 769670

PEROT: 101 in leadership is be accountable for what you do. Let's go back to the tax and budget summit briefly. Nobody ever told the American people that we increased spending $1.83 for every dollar of taxes raised. That's absolutely unconscionable. Both parties carry a huge blame for that on their shoulders. This was not a way to pay down the deficit. This was a trick on the American people. That's not leadership. Let's go back in terms of accepting responsibility for your actions. If you create Saddam Hussein, over a ten-year period, using billions of dollars of U.S. taxpayer money, step up to the plate and say it was a mistake. If you create Noriega, using taxpayer money, step up to the plate and say it was a mistake. If you can't get your act together to pick him up one day when a Panamanian major has kidnapped him and a special forces team is 400 yards away and it's a stroll across the park to get him, and if you can't get your act together, at least pick up the Panamanian major, who they then killed, step up to the plate and admit it was a mistake. That's leadership, folks. Now, leaders will always make mistakes. We've created, and I'm not aiming at any one person here, I'm aiming at our government--nobody takes responsibility for anything. We've gotta change that. msu.edu