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

To: Sedohr Nod who wrote (313284)	11/1/2002 8:37:27 PM
From: MSI	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Further corrections: If, as you say, the GOP voted for every SS bill since the 1940's it would follow that about half of the Democrat's platform of scare mongering the elderly is nothing more than bullfeathers The Demos calling the GOP on their SocSec-->StockMarket-->Loser-->WheelChair-downstairs cartoon is for GOP proposition to make SS even more precarious by allowing trillions to drift over to the Wall Street sharks. It gets the idea across that the GOP is the Party of Death, just like the lack of GOP legislation on prescription drugs. The drug co.s have more lobbyists than there are Congressmen ! It's a scandal to have $23 billion from US taxpayers go to research, which is then given to drug co.s FOR FREE, who then monopolize prices up to hundreds of $$ per month per elderly victim. Instead, other countries like Canada negotiate prices, tell the drug co's to go f* themselves when they whine about not enough $$ for research, since the research comes from the US taxpayer in the first place. My brother worked for one of the world's largest pharma co's, which sent him around the world, always first class $5,000 tickets, when he'd rather go coach. "That's just the way they do it", he was told. Falling for pharma lobbyist crap is both parties' fault, but failing to fix it is now due to GOP roadblock. Talking about shredded documents and Presidents saying "trust me" was pretty rich after enjoying all the character exhibited by the previous administration This isn't some imaginary "character" issue, this is life and death, not girlfriend/boyfriend GOP politically-motivated pornography. The war profiteers in Washington are led by the Bush team, leading to the probability of many thousands of deaths of Americans and others, unlike the previous administration. There is a vast difference. the exuberance fueled by visions of the business cycle being repealed could only lead to sobering results....on the bright side of that cycle, we are a lot closer to being in a market where the strategy of "buying and holding" of equities finally starts to make some sense.... I listen to what Bob Brinker says about 'buy and hold', that it's a bad idea in markets like the bubble. He advised dumping everything in Jan. 2000, and I dumped most (shoulda dumped more!) and went into real estate. Now, that's getting non-understandable, and I'm getting out of most of that, even tho' Brinker isn't recommending that. Hard to know where to sit in these musical chairs, but I'm setting up income property and intellectual property investments. Brinker expects a large opportunity sometime in next few months. the rest of your theories on the misuse of governmental funds seemed like a cry for tax cuts to me... At the least. If gov't is so out of control and lying and covert action against even the American people is such SOP, taking the punch bowl away is the only solution, until transparency and full disclosure is obtained on the web on every public dollar, program and person. If we don't get to follow the money, we shouldn't pay into an obviously corrupt system, which turns up TRILLIONS in missing dollars at the DOD, just a few months ago. For one little example. whether you like it or not we are at war... Against whom? Think about it... "against terrorists" is a bit vague. The administration has done the fast shuffle on UBL, suddenly he's out of the picture, instead of knowing who was involved in 911 we're off to another battle, this time involving $1.1 trillion in Iraqi oil reserves. Suspicious, many times over.