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

To: TigerPaw who wrote (229909)	2/22/2002 12:17:40 AM
From: CYBERKEN	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

<<One reason that you cannot come to a successful economic concept is that you focus solely on part of the equation.>> Kind of like telling a surgeon he concentrates too much on the flesh. Taxes are property the coercive state seizes at the virtual point of a gun. A free Republic grudgingly allows such seizure for national defense, a court system, and a very limited number of common needs. When the diligence of the people weakens, they trade their liberty for a mis-allocation of resources that ultimately destroys their ability to survive as a nation. A public pension plan, a public health insurance plan, establishes the coercive state as a tyrant which pays for it's political support in cash. Such a system is doomed to failure, and it's people condemned to slavery...

To: TigerPaw who wrote (229909)	3/5/2002 10:31:44 AM
From: DOUG H	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Here are some questions to test how "wellrounded" your thinking is. many high school students read and study Alexis de Tocqueville's "Democracy in America." Tocqueville also wrote "Memoir on Pauperism," where he warned against the dependency-inducing nature of welfare. He said, "Any measure that establishes legal charity on a permanent basis and gives it an administrative form thereby creates an idle and lazy class, living at the expense of the industrial and working class. This, at least, is its inevitable consequence, if not the immediate result." Was he wrong? Your party supports minimum wage laws, arguing the unfairness of low, non-livable wages. But President Abraham Lincoln once said, "There is not, of necessity, any such thing as the free, hired laborer being fixed to that condition for life. The prudent, penniless beginner in the world labors for wages awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land for himself, then labors on his own account for awhile and, at length, hires another new beginner to help him. This is the just, and generous, and prosperous system which opens the way to all – gives hope to all, and ... energy, and progress, and improvement of conditions to all." Was he wrong? C.S. Lewis, the atheist-turned-believer, criticized well- intentioned but wrong-headed government intrusion into our personal lives. He said, "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." Was he wrong? James Madison, the father of the Constitution, said the general welfare clause restricted the power of government. He said, "With respect to the words general welfare, I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers (enumerated in the Constitution) connected with them. To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution into a character which there is a host of proofs was not contemplated by its creators." Was he wrong? in 1962, President John F. Kennedy stated, "It is a paradoxical truth that tax rates are too high today and tax revenues are too low – and the soundest way to raise revenues in the long run is to cut rates now." Was he wrong? we hear references to the "Bush recession." Yet the National Bureau of Economic Research says the recession began March 2001, which means that President Bush wrecked the economy in less than two months. Was the National Bureau of Economic Research wrong? worldnetdaily.net