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

To: Frederick Smart who wrote (265044)	6/19/2002 11:33:32 PM
From: MSI	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769667

I have to disagree. The core seed of this claim, blame and shame fascist attitude originates with this ONE World financial mafia that believes everyone in the entire world is to be it's slaves. I'm a capitalist, also, but I don't intend to be coercive. I think it's possible to do both. The happy medium is a level playing field and high visibility into the process. My econ prof use to say the two basic problems in economics are perfect information and distribution of goods and services. In this example, with something closer to 'perfect information' a consumer can switch to a different company that provides better value or respect for time. To extend that to government, as you have, I would say that the single major problem in government is the thousands of roadblocks to good information. Every agency tends to keep its information secret, to the extent it can get away with it. The goal of good government must be to pry information from all agencies into the public's domain, to those who pay for and own the information in the first place. Individuals at the top corporate and government positions mistake the resources they deal with as their own personal property, whether it be corporate cash or government and military power. That is a mistake that needs to be slapped down, hard, with all the rules against self-dealing, profiteering, fraud, obstruction of justice, and so forth, and heads need to roll, including prison terms, all the way to the top most levels, to send a signal to the rest of the huge bureacracy that the people are the owners, not the bureacrats.