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

To: Neocon who wrote (10348)	2/4/2002 7:35:29 PM
From: MSI	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 93284

Hi neocon, Would that it were so. "No one is thwarting the people's will. " That is the fundamental issue. When you can buy Congressional and administration influence in ways kept secret, it is doubtful they operate in the people's interest. That's an accelerating trend, as if you were steadily dropping an increasing number of pounds per month, with no end in sight. Not healthy, after a point. Perhaps you voted for higher taxes, greater foreign involvement and nearly unlimited immigration, for example, but few others did. Endless streams of excuses by self-perpetuating Beltway Bandits on why we must meekly go along with this is analgous to Anderson Consulting saying "trust me, and keep paying me". Eventually when the system doesn't work - replace it or fix it, stop accepting excuses, if you don't trust the people involved. My thesis is that the public trust is being violated by public companies and political leaders alike, in a general moral leadership vacuum, and changes will be made by the "silent majority" (different than Nixon's tho'!) who are refusing to buy stock equities, would refuse to buy Saudi oil given the chance, and will refuse to elect incumbants in the next election. My suspicion is that people are fed up, in spite of the patina of "things are ok" in the media. Damaging things are occuring on this administrations watch, and blaming the "other guy" isn't going to work after a while. I'll see if there are some enlightening polling numbers to that issue. I'm not a big believer in polls, knowing too much about how they are constructed and interpreted for convenience.