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

To: SecularBull who wrote (361006)	2/18/2003 9:17:01 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Re: "Conservatives espouse smaller government, and quite frankly want the government to stay out of individuals' business." >>> Yah, they talk a good game... to bad - when it comes to their pet social ideas - those currently running things don't back it up with action (REAL conservatives would), and in fact are going in the exact opposite direction. >>> For just one example, candidate Bush promised to leave medical marijuana decisions up to the States (allowing the States to serve their traditional role as the "labratories of Democracy"). This was one of the first campaign promises he broke... sicing Ashcroft and federal cops on people who had been deputized by local California and Oregon authorities to carry out State laws providing marijuana to AIDs and cancer patients... "Big Daddy" knows best! >>> "Big Daddy" also is threatening to remove the license of any physician who proscribes the herb to their patients... regardless of any determination of medical utility. >>> Or any physician giving information to dying patients in Oregon in connection with Oregon's "assisted suicide" law. >>> The feds want "Total Information Awareness" on every American citizen... regardless of whether they are suspected of any crimes or not. >>> Spending on government programs is projected to increase at three times the rate that prevailed under our last President, under Bush's administration. >>> Traditional herbal medicines used for many thousands of years (such as "red yeast rice"... used since before Christianity in the far east) have been banned from sale to US citizens by the FDA... to protect the profits of pharmaceutical firms hawking their own collesterol lowering agents. >>> Bush wants to subsidize many industries (uranium mining, oil, coal, nuclear power plants, steel, forestry, farming, etc., etc.) with taxpayer funds or tariffs -- admittedly not the first, or the only administration to fudge on free market principles, or to help out their cronies. It's called 'national industrial policy', and it's hand-in-hand a component of the growth of Big Government. >>> Bush's education plan also levied new requirements on local governments - without providing funding to offset the costs - further usurping a traditional area of State's rights.