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

To: Bob White who wrote (279825)	7/24/2002 2:55:13 AM
From: CYBERKEN	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

The liberal's credibility on "massive depressions" flies right out the window by their second sentence, whence, with straight face, they instruct us that higher taxes and deflationary surpluses create prosperity. The unanimous historical proof is exactly the contrary. Capital formation DIES under high marginal tax rates and stifling government. Finally their surplus talk, wrong-headed as it is, is also a typical liberal lie, as they intend to spend every dollar they steal from the productive sector of the society that they desire to oppress. This lie is as stale as the propaganda of their model, the Russian revolution...

To: Bob White who wrote (279825)	7/24/2002 12:52:51 PM
From: greenspirit	Respond to of 769670

Hi Bob, good post. The economy is in far better shape today, then it was in the late 70's before Reagan set us on a different path of lower tax-rates and entrepreneurial re-invigeration. Then, as it is today, the liberal gloom-and-doom pundits predicted economic meltdown too. They were wrong, just as they are wrong today. A better, brighter and more peaceful world is around the corner. Just as Reagan and Bush Sr. guided the world toward the peaceful collapse of the Soviet Union, so too will the younger Bush guide the Muslim world toward a civilized peaceful future. A great challenge lay ahead. He deserves our support, just as Reagan and Bush Sr did as we look back on the 80's. Clinton's team did their best to ignore the situation throughout the 90's and hope it would work itself out. Hoping and dreaming of a better world is not leadership. Leadership means taking on the tough challenges, taking on the criticism, taking on the risk and doing. While all the signs of fanatical Islam were around us in the 90's, we chose to ignore it and bask in a rising stock market, instead of looking clearly at what was happening and lead our way through it. 3000 Americans brutally lost their lives because of our short term selfish, hide-your-head-in-the-sand mindset. The time has come to stop ignoring something, we, as Americans, are uniquely qualified to lead the world through. No other nation can take on this burden. No other nation has the moral, economic and military power. It must be us. It must be George W. Bush. And it must be now for the sake of our children and grandchildren. And for the sake of every generation around the world which comes after us. If we do nothing, it won't be long before a nuclear weapon ends up in the hands of Muslim fanatics who long to destroy the civilized world. Therefore, we must act now with a real sense of urgency. We must act now we the knowledge that we have only a decade or two to attain this goal. If that means we spend too much on the military in the short term, then so be it, if it means our stock market suffers for a time, then so be it. The price of freedom has always been a high one. Is a short term declining stock market really that high a price to pay, when you weigh it against what our forefathers sacrificed? Once the Muslim world embraces freedom, liberty and democracy, the fruit will hang low enough for us all to pick from. Hundreds of millions of minds are now being enslaved in the Muslim world. When they are free, (which one day they surely will be), the world will have gained a tremendous asset. In the 90's, American corporations benefited tremendously from hundreds of millions of new consumers entering the capitalistic fold in Europe. Reagan/Bush leadership in the 80's set the stage for that prosperous growth. The first decade of the 21st century is looking to be a repeat of that endeavor, provided we not allow short term political divisiveness to tear us apart first.