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

To: Rainy_Day_Woman who wrote (339126)	1/7/2003 10:29:37 AM
From: MulhollandDrive	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769667

We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. Preamble US Constitution i think the priorities of spending are well defined... "general welfare" has obviously been perverted and used to redirect the treasury of the people to wasteful and unnecessary government programs... dma gave a good example the other day...the "surgeon general"... wassap wit dat? if we totally eliminate the position and staff...does anybody honestly think it will effect their personal welfare? i realize that particular budget is not even a drop in the morass of the federal budget.. the budget is so bloated and overfed, the "next question".. where? it is almost a hopeless task... just like "tweaking" the existing tax code...at some point you have to accept it is a grotesque history of special interest legislation designed to extract and exclude "targeted" funds .... i talked with an irs agent the other day about an administrative issue that we have been trying to resolve for over a year...the poor fellow basically whined about the number of returns that are filed and said that there is literally no way they can deal effectively with a "problem" return...even (or perhaps especially) when the problem is on their end. i told him to expect a phone call from me weekly until it is completely resolved...multiply that scenario times millions and i think we get an idea of the intrusive and abusive nature of the tax code... pretty tough to have a "problem return" with a flat tax