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

To: George Coyne who wrote (176873)	9/2/2001 7:06:11 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

What statements did I make which were false? Any? Can you name one? No? Then maybe you are the nimrod. Sorry.

To: George Coyne who wrote (176873)	9/2/2001 7:08:54 PM
From: American Spirit	Respond to of 769667

__GAO Reveals Fed. Regulatory Commission's Coverup of the California Energy Rip Off (tip of the iceberg) The Federal Regulatory Commission's effort to coverup the intentional manipulation of CA power supplies by the energy industry in order to reap huge profits has been exposed by the General Accounting Office. When the GAO reviewed the FRC's "study" of the CA crisis, released in Feb., it discovered that the agency presented only physical reasons for outages (i.e., the turbines aren't on!), and did not look any further. This is tantamount to a detective stating in a homicide report, "Yep, looks like this guy's been stabbed," without reference to a search for a murderer or murder weapon. The "intensive" FRC investigation appears to have consisted largely of phone calls and guided tours of power plants by industry officials. This is like our homicide detectives relying on advice from the chief suspect! In any case, industry experts say that it is "practically impossible" to determine whether blackouts were justified just by looking at the superficial evidence. nytimes.com

To: George Coyne who wrote (176873)	9/2/2001 7:09:53 PM
From: American Spirit	Respond to of 769667

__Secretary of Treasury O'Neill Makes Push to Raid Social Security Fund for Own Gain Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill has just announced that the $1.2 trillion in the Social Security Trust fund is made up of fake government bonds that therefore do not need to be paid off like other bonds. O'Neill admits this, even though he was one of the trustees who signed this year's report showing the $1.2T in bonds as ASSETS. Now he's telling the 150 million American workers who paid into the fund that their hard-earned cash will never be paid back by the government. So the wealthy get a huge tax break that leaves the US unable to pay off the bonds. The average American will lose thousands (tens of times their tax "break"), while the wealthy will collect the windfall from these "fake bonds." (O'Neill's is over $10 million, Cheney's is over $14M). No wonder the members of Bush's Soc. Sec. Commission are urging default on the soc. sec. debt! Among these members are some of the biggest corporate fat cats, including AOL Time-Warner's Richard Parsons (who co-chairs the commission!). commondreams.org

To: George Coyne who wrote (176873)	9/2/2001 7:11:08 PM
From: American Spirit	Respond to of 769667

__National Forest Service Given 'Gold Fleece' Rip Off Award for Selling Out Forest in West VA -"Either it's amateur hour at the Forest Service or these employees knowingly chose to defraud taxpayers." That's how Jonathan Oppenheimer of Taxpayers for Common Sense describes the outrageous sell off of more than 9 million board feet of timber from the Fernow Experimental Forest by the National Forest Service over the past decade. Want to know where the $2.4 million the NFS earned on the deal went? Into the pockets of the logging crews who chewed through the forest. The deal violates several recognized laws and regulations. These sleazy wood pymphs were caught through an audit by the Office of the Inspector General. The Taxpayers for Common Sense decided the NFS's criminal behavior deserved to be recognized by the lowest-of-the-low award: the Golden Fleece. With Bush's new "free market" rightwingers now planted in the NFS, the TCS better get a warehouse full of those prizes ready. taxpayer.net

To: George Coyne who wrote (176873)	9/2/2001 7:12:07 PM
From: American Spirit	Respond to of 769667

__Bush, the Undeserving Recipient of Countless Second Chances, Revokes All Second Chances for Common Man and Earth Itself "Using rhetoric of compassion, a president who owes his career to unearned breaks is defining his presidency as the regime of no second chances. Not for individuals, nor for the planet, nor for anyone except the wealthy and well-connected... All this comes from a president whose career has consisted of unearned breaks and forgiven mistakes: launching a succession of failed oil companies, losing millions of his father’s friends’ dollars, and walking away with more money each time; partying through Andover and Yale, bypassing a hundred thousand others to get into the Texas National Guard, and then ducking out on a year of service once he entered; being bailed out by connections every time." Just a few of the insights from this incredibly eloquent essay by Paul Rogat Loeb. CIRCULATE THIS ONE! commondreams.org