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

To: Pat W. who wrote (173374)	8/22/2001 11:58:45 AM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Cliton had fiscal responsibility, leadership, inclusiveness, balanced budgets, excellent relations with allies, very little wasteful spending or boondoggles, no tax giveaways to special interests, no huge energy gougings (until the Gore-Bush election was in full swing), markets rising on both optimism and speculation and of course an excessive tech boom. But even without the tech boom things were in good shape. With Bush now we find a complete ignorance or disdain for technology (which is our #1 export now) and no effort to help the deflated sector, markets being shorted at all-time high levels, huge giveaways of public and private money and resources to the energy cartel and other one-time useage no tomorrow industries, cutting future technologies and clean energy programs, tax cuts mainly for the rich, deficit spending, squandering of the surplus, over-spending on tax cuts, Star Wars and energy, serious imbalances in the budgets, more and more soft money corruption and zero leadership economically. We also have malaise and big lies aplenty. My favorite Bush sugestion is "Spend your tax cut on bigger energy bills". That was a doozy. In other words, give the entire tax cut to his cronies. And it's happened. In fact gougings were three times the amount of the tax cut this year alone. Still the sky is not falling. Despite Bush we will survive to thrive again someday. But we will once again have to pay off greater deficits and cho down his future back-loaded tax cut scheme to nothing as it will bankrupt our government. It just may take a few years until he is a lame duck. Dem control of congress is the key to stopping these thieves in their tracks. That will give us (thank God) campaign finance reform and no more draining of the treasury. So I see 103 years of economic negativity so long as Bush is potent and can get his creepy programs through a rubber stamp congress. That's the way the market is calling it now too and usually the market is the best forecaster. We need new leadership, or at least this Bush Administration defanged and sent to the scrapheap of bad ideas. They can only do us damage the way they are approaching things, their #1 prioriity still tax-free giveaways to big energy with accompanying pollution. That item alone could wipe out our surplus all by itself.