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

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (323508)	11/26/2002 4:48:01 PM
From: PROLIFE	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

that's not proof, that is just opinion. see the link: nytimes.com

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (323508)	11/27/2002 12:04:11 AM
From: Srexley	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

You guys are paranoid. All that info is already out there, and yes, I still have NO FEARS. Let me know when you see this hurt someone.

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (323508)	11/27/2002 3:42:42 AM
From: MSI	Respond to of 769670

GOP Wet Dream - Homeland Security = GOP Security "Republicans keep pushing, under their long-term plan to privatize government and the military, the new Bushonian plan just announced to privatize 850,000 government positions. These are all federal civilian employees. In other words, private corporations would now run these individual branches of government and federal agencies. They do that in a sense now anyway but there are still federal employees. Now they wouldn’t be federal employees anymore. They would be employees of private corporations. This then becomes the “Corporatization of American Government.” And what's left? There are the 170,000 staff members of the General Services Administration. The General Accounting Office. The OMB. The Comptroller. The way they’re selling it is by saying that it will be cheaper for the American taxpayers. They’re using the Old Republican BS that private corporations will instill market discipline on government and thus drive costs down, which always sounds nice, but it never happens that way. This will be literally a Republican Wet Dream because the corporations, which are becoming the new sub-contractors to the government, are Republican- controlled corporations. We are now creating a whole new power structure between corporations and the Republican Party. The Republican Party is essentially using this privatization to consolidate its political power, so that even if a time were to come that it was not in office we would literally have a One Party State. Even if the Republicans were not in office, the corporations will control most of governmental functions, and those corporations are in turn controlled by Republican interests. Using the Soviet analogy, as there were Soviet apparatchiks (bureaucratic functionaries), now there will be now new Republican apparatchiks running the functions of state. As you can imagine, federal employees are all scared of this idea. They’re going to lose their rich government pensions. And then there’s Tom DeLay, who’s as Far Right as you can get, the House majority leader and lapdog of Attorney General John Ashcroft. He likes to quote Ashcroft saying that the Attorney General says that we must now act to pass the National Identity Card act and we now must pass the overturning of Posse Comitatus in order “to give the Attorney general new tools in his war to identify the disloyal and weed out all enemies of the state.” These are the new marching orders of the Bush Regime. The Republicans know that the Democratic Party is in a state of complete disarray. They know they can get anything passed through Congress they want. There has been a lot of talk that this creates the opportunity for the formation of a new party since the Democrats are in such disarray and even what is left of the moderate wing of the Republican Party is becoming increasingly nervous that the Bush Administration is so far to the right and continues to march even further to the right. Now even some of the grassroots Republicans distance they from the Bush Administration on this issue of “security.” Even people like Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson are distancing themselves from the Bush Administration. After all they represent a lot of gun-owning right wing Baptist types who are just as frightened of National ID cards as Tom Daschle. almartinraw.com