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

To: DMaA who wrote (171257)	8/14/2001 1:27:01 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769667

"Smaller limited government" - a GOP big lie. What does it really mean? A transfer of public wealth into the pockets of corporate special interests and the very wealthy (example Bush-Cheney's 33 billion tax breaks to Big Energy after they just helped them gouge us for 100 billion in windfall profits). This enables the miserly rich to get out of supporting the poor and middle-class programs including education (another Big Lie Bush is for better public education), healthcare, social security. Deregulation of corporations is also called "smaller government" (those damn regulators) so they can do things like gyp consumers, pollute the environment and manipulate prices without repercussion. Also a severe cutting of social and regulatory programs which we need very badly in an attempt to privatize everything. A thousand Points Of Light didn't work. Neither will the Faith-Based idea. Charities cannot carry the heavy load esp, the separation of church and state would be broken and it's proven many of the very rich like Cheney give almost nothing to charity. As we see from Bush's nascent record, even the military gets short-changed because the corporations when in charge waste many billions on boondoggles like Star Wars and Sergeant York Missile systems we don't need and which often don't work. This cheats the average soldier by draining available resources they need to lead decent lives. This is not just a GOP problem of course. But campaign finance reform pretty much is. Campaign finance reform would be the best thing for our government. It would clean out the corruption to quite a degree and give us candidates who actually merit being elected not just the richest. Also Clinton shrunk government quite a bit in comparison to Bush Sr. and Reagan so where's the beef there? Just as important, federal deficits have grown the most under Republican governments (and they are even proud of it according to Forbes) when Clinton shrunk the deficits. Now they are growing again thanks to the Bush tax break for the rich and the energy gougings. Time to see through these spin slogans like "smaller government". They're real BS. especially when the conservatives want the government in our bedrooms as well, and are mounting the largest program ever to enable spy satellites to watch and listen to every little thing we do.