To: TigerPaw who wrote (10373 ) 12/13/2002 10:23:58 AM From: Jim Willie CB Read Replies (4) | Respond to of 89467 all the environmentalists have accomplished is blocking energy exploration and production their efforts are 95% blocking energy, 5% new alternatives wrong priority emphasis "supreme benefits of government protected private property and unified set of rules" you mean protection of pensions, judicial military govt and all the other crippling entitlements California recently has made this clear if they fired every single state worker in CA, their budget would still be $6B in the red!!! the govt doesnt protect private rights they protect their own existence they cover up most evidence of wrongdoing the Fed and ESF (PPTeam) has numerous violations most rules do not apply to the Ruling Elite, and you know that idealism yielded to pragmatism and corruption long ago! gonna be enormous growth in need to spend on unemploymt insurance the depression between Bush1 and Bush2 was set up by colossal loss of honesty, integrity, and legitimate govt leadership during the Clinton, Rubin, Greenspam administrations, where truth was sacraficed in utter defiance, where gold was used to subsidize the Trez market, thus reducing interest rates, where productivity was given the false credit (no more than 2.0%), thus building a stock and currency asset bubble which is coming apart at the seams during the Bush2 era, and which is blamed by moronic Democrats and other Mindless Liberals as Bush2's fault take a close look at the policies from 1995 to 2000 the stock market broke in March 2000, under Clinton's Watch take a close look at the Strong Dollar policy under Rubin, who by the way is considered the world's foremost currency futures trader, and now continues in an advisory capacity the Strong Dollar Policy is now being unwound, with predictable havoc to the financial markets and Mindless Naive Liberals continue to lay blame like absolute utter idiots at Bush's feet, while showing convenient lapse in memory of events from the last decade incredibly shallow he is reponsible for a lousy economic team, which means a dumb fat slow cop has been left to sit and watch as the house begins to crumble from its own weight and faulty foundation while fools blame the falling house on the dumb fat slow cop who continually says stupid things with all due respect / jim