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

To: calgal who wrote (178776)	9/8/2001 1:09:58 PM
From: American Spirit	Respond to of 769670

Bush made the Naz fall much worse than it would have been. 1) Supporting the massive energy gougings which put a bullet into the weakening economy 2) Ignoring and even disdaining the tech industry because he perceived them as his enemy and he doesn't understand tech's importance 3) Not doing what I said he should do six months ago, instead of offering 33 billion to Big Energy in tax breaks offer some tax credits for computer purchases 4) Wasting time on ridiculous boondoggles like Star Wars and Faith-Based which are not going to work and create more problems than they solve 5) Not even mentioning the economy as a priority until last week 6) Offering no new economic programs besides more jobs raping our wilderness lands for Big Oil and coal 7) Being unrealistic about surpluses and pushing us back into deficit-spending 8) Boosting only himself not American ingenuity 9) Saying things like "who needs the government to spend 450 billion on technology"? 10) Kissing butt of Big Oil and HMO's to the detriment of the consumer and public money while ignoring our real problems. 11) Tax cut coming too late to help probably 12) Taking a long vacation instead of rolling up his sleeves 13) Basically campaigning for re-election instead of showing people he cares and has answers. That said, I hope he changes course and shows real leadership where it's needed now, putting his partisan divisive agenda aside and acting out of concern now just giving us phony PR speeches. The worst part is all his talking head spin doctors just parrot him and dominate most of the news coverage so that's all we hear out of DC, that and Gary Condit. It's the age of malaise and Bush has done his part in making it a reality, much worse than it would have been with Gore in office, for instance. And it doesn't help that Gore won the popular vote and Bush may be an illegitimate president. Gore never would have let tech problems go this far. He would have fought to keep some of our best companies from teetering into bankruptcy. Also I'm more and more convinced the energy gougings were deliberately orchestrated and abused and that alone sucked so much cash out of our system at the wrong time the effects could not be made up for anywhere else. We will know more about this during the Cheney stonewalling congress case as it unfolds. I expect they will sue Cheney and Bush and eventually find out the bitter tuth, that at least when it comes to energy, we have arrogant crooks in the White House who think nothing of siphoning off a 100 billion or so into the pockets of their cronies.