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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Selectric II who wrote (10038)	1/30/2002 9:19:56 AM
From: Zoltan!	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

Republicans naturally support business when consistent with free enterprise. Dems do not. That's why Americans believe Dems are more influenced by contributors - the Dems are the party of special interests. Same with Defense - decade after decade Dems inimical to Defense supported only those programs supplied by contractors in their states or districts.

To: Selectric II who wrote (10038)	1/30/2002 9:20:21 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

The First Amendment guarantees a right to petition the government for redress of grievances. This includes a right to participate in the shaping of legislation. He who has the most at stake in business before Congress will, ordinarily, invest the most in making sure his interests are represented. There is nothing wrong with that.......

To: Selectric II who wrote (10038)	1/30/2002 11:50:53 AM
From: MSI	Respond to of 93284

It would be nice to think so. Unfortunately in practice, the goal of 90% of Beltway politics is simply to systematically loot the government by any means possible, by war or peace, and hide all evidence. Tax laws make it clear our so-called "representation" no longer represents the taxpayer. Tax rates are so high they provide a huge tempting cash cow for the various real constituencies: corporate welfare and bureacrats, as long as taxpayers stay hypnotized and ignorant. Disclosure is a fine idea, but politicians need to be impeached, recalled and publicly humiliated, until these disclosure laws are actually enforced. "Disclosure" is nonexsitant within a Beltway culture that is in love with all manner secrecy and self-dealing in government and business. It's a joke. I'd go along with you if information were released in a web page showing what our public servants are up to on a daily basis. The idea of "national security" and "presidential papers" is gleefully swallowed by the gullible, when it is in fact b.s., outside a very narrow range of technical and very short-term military information. The idea that our top public servants are entitled to secret meetings during their term of office is totally discredited. If the long line of beggars going to Washington can't talk in public, they should take their begging cups and leave. The public is buffaloed into accepting this nonsense from the Beltway by an artificial conflict between Democrats and Republicans, when there's not a dime's worht of difference between them. As Will Rogers said, "it's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for". Unfortunately, what's left still has a bad smell these days.