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


To: American Spirit who wrote (178085)9/6/2001 1:37:07 AM
From: uu  Respond to of 769667
 
When a president refers to his campaign promises as "symbolic" gestures, then we can safely conclude that the state of the nation is nothing but a black comedy.



To: American Spirit who wrote (178085)9/6/2001 3:13:34 PM
From: Logain Ablar  Respond to of 769667
 
American Spurut:

You still owe me an apology.

In this post you called me a liar when you misquoted one of my posts. It was a response to my post pointing out how Gray Davis requested assistance from Bush after Davis was blaming Bush for California energy problems.

Message 16221595

This is a SI terms of use violation so when you apologize be civil.

I know your upset since I was refuting your opinions with facts but really I was just trying to educate you a little bit.

If you put me on ignore one of your acquaintances should let you know I want an apology for this.

Tim



To: American Spirit who wrote (178085)9/7/2001 1:48:50 AM
From: jeffreyagray  Read Replies (4) | Respond to of 769667
 
Your ignorance never ceases to amaze me. The tax cuts should be more fair? What is more fair than giving the money back to the people who paid it in. You are a left wing liberal. Just admit it. Why should we give tax money back to the less priveliged? Did they pay any taxes? NO! I was once one of those people. I hardly paid any taxes one year, I was married with one child and I received the Earned Income Tax Credit. I ended up getting more money back in a tax refund than I paid in taxes. It was wrong then and it is still wrong. Now I make six figures, own a house, am married and have two kids. I claim zero. My wife claims zero. I pay more than my fair share of taxes but at the end of the year the IRS says I still owe more. Is that fair? Also, because I make that kind of money I spend more. That means I pay more in sales tax contributions than say someone who makes 35,000 a year. Is that fair? Whether you like the rich or not they pay more than their fair share. If you are mad they got a tax cut get over it!! They are still in the 30%+ tax bracket. My guess is you are in the 25-28% tax bracket. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out who pays more. Stop listening to the hype and get over your bitterness toward the rich. We all pay too much in taxes.

Now tell me, really, what is campaign finance reform going to do to help this country? The people who are breaking the rules will continue to do so. We need to stop writing new bills and enforce the ones we have. A more important issue, if you want to help this country, would be tort reform. Lawyers and lawsuits are tearing this country apart at the seams. Do us all a favor and fight for that.

And finally the environment. It is not as bad as people make it out to be. Global warming is a overhyped farce just like talk about an Ice-Age back in the seventies. Ther are more trees now than there were 100 years ago. Deer populations are up. Elk populations are up. Wolf population are up. Mountain lion populations are up. Obviously we have a ton of sharks. So I guess the sewage spills in the oceans haven't affected them. If you ever get out and take a walk through the mountains of Colorado, Idaho and Montana you would see we are doing just fine. Most environmentalists do more to hurt the environment than they do to help it. Hence the word mental in environmentalists.

I truly hope someday you find that which you chose to name yourself after. The American Spirit is alive and well and it is not living in left wing policies or practices. They sure want everyone to think it is though. What a joke!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!