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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Brumar89 who wrote (15758)	10/20/2002 1:04:23 PM
From: MSI	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

What root causes should be addressed to deal with rapists? Good question. I don't have the answers. But as in the question of gun violence, Michael Moore's interview on Tim Russert last night was a good example of how to approach things from a liberal/progressive POV. Ask questions. He was funny as hell, if you get a chance to see a repeat. Canada has as much gun ownership as the US, but the US has 17 X more gun murders per capita. So Moore, who is a lifetime NRA member, says the NRA bumper sticker should be changed, the new one should be: "Guns Don't Kill People. Americans Kill People." Hilarious. I'll have to see "Bowling in Columbine" his new movie. Of course that doesn't answer questions, but it brings them up, which is an absolutely forgotten step as legislation and political sound-bite debate gets going. Who said anything about shooting political opponents? Ann Coulter. She's fascinating to watch in an interview, like Howard Stern, you never know what level of bad taste will be reached next. Women needing protection: agreed. I have many in my immediate family, and all have taken training. Again, Moore's running commentary about Canada - walking down the street at night, doors are unlocked - he tries it out, expecting like all Americans, to get met with a gun maybe, but no. Walking down a dark street a disheveled person coming your way might be cause for increased awareness and alarm - locals say they don't worry. The reason Moore thinks is a liberal vs "mean-spirited" politics here in America. Even tho' Americans are wonderful people, somehow that's been hijacked by extremist politics and propaganda. In Canada, the people help each other, if you are sick or lose your job, you have a safety net. In American (per Moore) the political idea is that people don't give a f*, it's everyone for themselves. As a fiscal conservative that's a quandry for me, who thinks gov't is 50% overfunded. What I need to know are the facts and figures on how Canada makes "help each other" work, how work ethic isn't lost, and budgets balanced. "Dependent on DC" is a good guide on how not to spend money in the US. I have yet to run across as good analysis of wasted spending, useless programs. There is just too much of it, but if there were full transparency in DC and politicians were force to be honest under threat of felony, I expect a trillion or so would be discovered annually. The US gov't is just too powerful, and attracts and distributes too much of the economy, all the power resides in DC, and none out here in with the citizenry.