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

To: rich4eagle who wrote (191277)	10/11/2001 11:32:23 PM
From: asenna1	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769669

One of my favorite excerpts from the presser... "How do I respond when I see that in some Islamic countries there is vitriolic hatred for America? I'll tell you how I respond: I'm amazed. I'm amazed that there's such misunderstanding of what our country is about that people would hate us. I am--like most Americans, I just can't believe it because I know how good we are. And we've got to do a better job of making our case. We've got to do a better job of explaining to the people in the Middle East, for example, that we don't fight a war against Islam or Muslims. We don't hold any religion accountable. We're fighting evil. And these murderers have hijacked a great religion in order to justify their evil deeds. And we cannot let it stand." If this does not show a TOTAL lack of understanding of the current situtaion, nothing does. If this is the level of "thinking" in this "Adminisration", then we may all be in for trouble like we've never seen before.

To: rich4eagle who wrote (191277)	10/11/2001 11:46:45 PM
From: Thehammer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769669

Thanks Rich, But I did not feel that Flap's statistics addressed the situation. The original discussion arose from corporate taxation. Flaps' statistics, while interesting, did not address the economic basis for having (or not) taxation on corps. My original argument is that taxes on corporations limit the growth of jobs and ultimately, cause employee benefits, higher consumer costs, lower stockholder profits and less investment in the business (less job growth). The basis of Flap's argument is that corporations are bad,cannot be trusted and therefore should be taxed. We disagree, he makes jokes, I make jokes. Sometimes it is best just to laugh. Hammer