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

To: Raymond Duray who wrote (262220)	6/8/2002 10:16:18 PM
From: MSI	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Even regardless of the estate tax or growth of a trust-funded aristocracy, IMO the key is disclosure of media and government/business influence. When you think about it, the parasites can only succeed in being parasites if the body politic allows it to be secret. Let them clip their coupons. I want to know if our government is spending itself into oblivion, or backroom deals are limiting my choices. Even billionaire investors see that the pace of investment changes are rapid enough that investors will be brought down to non-millionaire status if they don't pay attention, in a small number of generations. It's like the battle with Microsoft, which is like the rich guy who owns everything in town. Microsoft has to run fast to keep up an increasingly difficult monopoly, through fair means or foul, and is subject to a Linux-type usuper. Let the fight continue, but keep it in the open, showing the "we'll cut off their oxygen supply" threats, and eventually the pendulum will balance. The result is like the recent school district that's talking about skipping Windows negotiations altogether, and going Linux. Great idea. Creative ideas will win over non-ideas, like Windows, eventually. The major problem I have w. the estate tax repeal is that its clearly the wrong priority, and is further evidence of government without the people. The basic policy is:" Screw the Weak"... the idea being there are so many, and they are such sheep, easy to shear. Sort of an economic Soylent Green. The logic is: Keep spending the weak people's future, and pile up the elite wealth, because they give you contributions. Oh, and don't ever call it a "class war", that's crass.