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

To: cAPSLOCK who wrote (174412)	8/26/2001 12:56:04 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

I enjoyed your post. To summarize, Everything that is good for tolerant people is bad for intolerant people. tom watson tosiwmee

To: cAPSLOCK who wrote (174412)	8/26/2001 1:12:40 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

You left out that I know most Texans are very nice people. It's just that something happens then the big oil or development boys see a loop-hole in the law. If you lived in Texas during the S+L debacle you know what I mean. It was pigs at the trough time down there like no other place in the US. For every few nice honest people you could trust you live to there's a swindler. Not saying it's unique to Texas in fact I think Florida's even worse but what we saw during the S+L debacle and the recent energy gougings was Texas "b'zness macho" at its worst, and for the ole boys there, boom times at the rest of our expense. Back in 1980 I spent some time in Texas. It was boom times with oil prices high. The rest of the country was mired in recession. That's what I mean by what's good for Texas is usually bad for the country. And since Bush seems to only know and think about Texas and Big Energy, and aims to pay off his Big Energy contributors big-time for four years the rest of the country is in for a fleecing. In fact they've already done a job on us, haven't they? Started even before Bush got in, six months before in fact, which also gave him the election since he lied to us and told us he was the one who could "fix" the problem. Boy did it fix it. In fact his cronies created it. Didn't they? Shortages? What shortages? We have gluts everywhere now. As for environmental regulation in Texas, the subject is practically considered treason to talk about down there. Every year I visit my parents in Houston and every year it smells worse. Last time I went there an acrid toxic smell like pesticide or some poison yuck was in the air everywhere and children were playing out in the park. It was Christmas Day. Such emissions are probably illegal as hel but no one was enforcing the rules. That's GW's legacy, though he didn't start it, he champions it and was bought and paid for by the people responsible. So now he's responsisble. The lesson here is let's first get rid of Bush-Cheney then get off gas and oil gradually over our lifetimes and give the next generation cleaner fuels, air and water. And meanwhile let's not let them destroy some of the better forests and wildlands we have left as GW and crew are itchin' to do again at our expense with the 33 billion in tax breaks GW is trying to give them. Texas at its worst in our White House. Bad times for the rest of us.