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

To: TigerPaw who wrote (302401)	9/30/2002 3:18:36 PM
From: MSI	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769669

the nation as a whole is much better off to have those artificial barriers to residency, employment, and gathering removed Without doubt. My concern and conundrum is the extreme inefficiency of fed gov't intervention at all levels of society, from illigitimate war-making to transfer payments from the middle class to the wealthy, and regressive taxes to support paid-off voting blocks of impoverished, which are kept in poverty by failing policies. A dollar sent to Washington comes back as 50-cents to the community, but much worse are the parasitic political effects set in that subvert the democratic process. Such as Republicans using such issues as strawmen, to attack the socially-conscious and justify their pet issues of wealth transfer to the wealthy and war-making sending the sons and daughters of the poor to their deaths. The poor are more willing to go along with the incumbant when they've been getting gov't checks all along. IMO we'd be a much more prosperous country at all levels without such excessive gov't intervention. Another trillion dollars or so would be available locally, by local spenders and charities, who on balance are more socially-conscious than the thieves in Washington, and certainly more knowledgeable and more effective at spending. The purpose of gov't is to provide for legitimate common defense, arbitrate disputes, and provide free and open disclosure of all public information. Instead the common defense has been reduced by belligerent foreign policies, respect for law has been reduced by Ken Lay et al publicly getting away with murder, and all public information is subject to suppression to protect the guilty. To paraphrase Junior Bush, they've struck out on all three, they've "Hit the trifecta!".