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

To: bonnuss_in_austin who wrote (247734)	4/14/2002 5:13:14 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

The energy deregulation Enron and other Bush cronies created is the root cause of the gougings and ripoffs. It was a system only Enron and a few others even understood. I can't understand the details either but it was similar to the S+L deregulation move after Reagan took office. Removing government interference so the pigs could legally feast at the trough of our money and pay for massive political power at the same time. In simple terms it was a massive price-fixing gouging scheme with power concentrated in the hands of a circle of people close to Bush-Cheney. Enron was the CEO of this whole operation with James Baker as the Chief Counsel and Cheney the head of its CIA. Bush Sr. and Cheney could also call in favors from the Arabs they rescued in 1990. Jeffords switching parties started the chain-reaction which brought down this scheme, but Big Energy isn't beaten yet. Notice every time it seems opportune Bush-Cheney still try to promote their corrupt "energy bill", which is a huge giveaway to Big Energy and a torough trashing of the environment. They say it's "balanced" but it's anything but. You can thank John Kerry, Jeffords and Lieberman for stopping it. They saved us many billions but haven't won yet. Meanwhile the GOP defeated the fuel efficiency bill which was the smartest thing to come down the pike in a long time. With the excuse they want "safety". Such a big lie and such obvious special interest corruption. They want us to burn more oil not less. Only then can they use "shortages" as an excuse to keep drilling in wilderness areas and building more polluting power plants. Ironically Enron's scandals DID get us campaign finance reform. Horray for the good guys, though watch for the NRA and others to try and sabotage it in court and keep the soft money flowing. An ongoing saga.