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

To: Logain Ablar who wrote (171364)	8/14/2001 5:14:31 PM
From: puborectalis	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Al Gore, Katherine Harris to appear at Iowa fund-raisers BY MIKE GLOVER Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa -- Al Gore has agreed to be the keynote speaker at the Iowa Democratic Party's annual fund-raising dinner next month, yet another signal that the former vice president is positioning himself for a leap back into politics. Gore had been invited to speak at the party's Sept. 29 Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner months ago, a high-profile appearance in the state that launches the presidential nominating season. Aides notified Iowa Democratic Party Chairwoman Sheila McGuire Riggs on Tuesday that Gore would accept the invitation, said two Democratic sources who spoke on condition of anonymity. A key figure in the controversial Florida vote count that sent George W. Bush to the White House also plans to visit Iowa. Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris will attend two fund-raisers and speak to Republican women on Sept. 15, GOP officials said. ``She's in demand right now. She's a high-profile Republican,'' said Darryl Kearney, finance director for the Iowa Republican Party. ``A lot of people want to meet her.'' Harris' role in the five-week recount made her a Republican heroine. Party officials have said Harris will run for Congress in 2002, but she has not confirmed her candidacy. She also will attend two GOP fund-raisers in Minnesota next month. Since losing the closest presidential election in more than a century, Gore has largely kept out of public view. He's taught college classes and declined to comment on his future or on Bush's presidency. But besides accepting the invitation to speak in Iowa, there have been other recent stirrings in the Gore camp: Gore held a workshop over the weekend with key activists in Nashville, Tenn., and has scheduled a field session with staffers this week. Though he won the popular vote, Gore lost the general election to Bush after the disputed Florida vote count. Gore backers have since been urging the former vice president to send a signal of his intentions to keep activists from moving to other contenders.

To: Logain Ablar who wrote (171364)	8/14/2001 9:48:01 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769667

Back before the Great Depression the rich didn't even pay taxes. We had two classes in America and the rich controlled the government entirely. Want to go back there? Social programs were put into place because depressions and down-turns do happen. And when they do and everyone is laid off people need to eat, get some modest health care and need to survive. You are extremely heartless or myoptic if you don't think a evolved democracy needs those services. Not to abuse but to protect. What if this recession goes on for three more years? Would you want the millions of unemployed and their children to go hungry? Get no medical check-ups? And meanwhile let the very rich get out of paying their taxes and can invest in a new yacht or two which their accountant can figure out a way to write off? I've already explained for your average rich person about 50% of his expenditures are tax deductible. The middleclass and poor have no such deductions. They live paycheck to paycheck and if they miss a few they go under. Maybe this will happen to you some day then you can remember how you defended the rich paying lower taxes when our taxes are already the lowest of any western country. It's bad karma saying what you're saying. If you're ever in need and the government won't help you because it's broke then you can just blame yourself. Look at homeless people, for instance. Why they did suddenly appear 20 years ago? because Reagan kicked hundreds of thousands out of mental hospitals, cut the programs. Gone. So the churches are supposed to take care of them but aren't equipped to. So now they sleep in your streets. What a great way to save money that was, huh? Then waste $100,000,000,000 deregulating the S+L's and letting the pigs wild at the troughs? Same thing happening again now if Bush-Cheney get away with their energy bill. More and more poor people unable to get help and 33 billion easy tax-break money to the energy fat cats. Not to mention the horrendous plundering of our environmental in the process.