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

To: DMaA who wrote (248645)	4/17/2002 12:30:07 AM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

What "theft" are we talking about? When did Clinton for instance take part in a public theft anything like the Bush-Cheney energy gougings of 2000 or the Reagan era S+L debacle? Or the tax givesaways to Big Oil and the richest Americans? Now that is a big redistribution of wealth, from ordinary consumers to the big Houston fat cats who funded Bush's campaign, Enron foremost of course. Yes some middle-class people got money (a real chicken in every pot, old way to try to buy votes), but by the same amount our national debt grows and will continue to grow under Bush. He says it's a temporary debt but trust me, it's permanent and it's growing. He also believes tax cuts stimulate the economy. Let's see some proof of that. Maybe in oil and defence but that's about it. Clinton grew the economy at record pace without tax cuts. Almost everyone was happy and unemployed. I'd like to see some progress with Bush's economics but frankly all I see is continued malaise in the economy. Even with the huge tax cuts just tepid growth if any. By the way I am not against all tax cuts, just the ones for the rich and the oil companies, Bush's real constituents. Those are the type of cuts that really drain the government coffers. The top 4,000 people make more than the next 40,000,000 for instance.

To: DMaA who wrote (248645)	4/17/2002 12:35:57 AM
From: MSI	Respond to of 769670

LOL! That's a joke. The $2 Trillion US budget got voted on by ... a majority of Republicans, as well, my friend. And proposed by our wonderful Administration. Where did that $2 trillion go? Certainly not to those who paid it. It was "redistributed" How much is $2 trillion, doesn't that qualify as "massive", in your terms? It certainly does. The repubs are in the forefront of creating the largest government in US history, if this keeps up. And busily denying it every step of the way. Hard to believe, considering the "gee, let's cut taxes" rhetoric, until you look at the "don't look now, but we'll just take a couple trillion out of our children's future" reality. Do a head-count of government at the end of this year, and compare it to when Junior took office... It'll be a sad, sorry number.