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

To: Glenn Petersen who wrote (390800)	4/12/2003 1:43:34 AM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769669

All - How do you feel about the "Corporate Patriot Enforcement Act"? This is a bi-partisan bill that was introduced in both the House and Senate, designed to stop American corporations from establishing themselves as foreign companies by opening "offices", sometimes little more than a P.O. Box, in places like Bermuda, thus avoiding paying billions of dollars in U.S. taxes. The names of some of the companies that have done this might surprise you. I'll pick a few at random: Halliburton, Tyco, Accenture. Halliburton increased the number of its off-shore tax-sheltered subsidiaries from 9 in 1995 to 44 in 1999, so that instead of paying taxes, it began collecting rebates from the U.S. government. Yet the company continues to receive lucrative Federal contracts. American soldiers are dying in Iraq. Though they are certainly deriving benefits from this war, which our country is going into debt to finance, Halliburton isn't willing to pay one penny in taxes to support it. The situation reminds me of something a great man once said. "There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains." Thoughts, anyone? - Allen

To: Glenn Petersen who wrote (390800)	4/12/2003 11:47:26 AM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769669

Kerry would have at least gotten Gore NH. That alone would have won it. Graham would have gotten Florida. If Gore had used Clinton he could have taken Arkansas. Gore should have also spent more time in Tennessee and played his good ole boy card. Never did. And Lieberman didn't bring him a single electoral vote. All Monday morning quarterbacking now but you cant beat Republicans lie Bush by taking the high road and trying to run a polite campaign. Gore lost because he didn't fight hard enough. Kerry is no typical liberal. He's very strong on Bush's top issues, military, counter-terrorism and foreign policy. In fact Kerry blows Bush out of the water on all three not just intellectually but in terms of his personal macho quotient which is worth a lot in an election. Dont expect Kerry to play nice and take the high road. He's going to get down in the dirt with Bush and defeat him in "hand to hand combat". And he wont let Bush get away with all his phoyn feel-good slogans. He'll expose Bush, ther real Bush. You're naive if you try to portray Kerry as some sort of peacenik liberal. He's anything but these days. In terms of strengthening America he's head and shoulders above Bush. Bush can push the buttons for war, but he doesn't do diplomacy. His black and white narrow-minded view of the world has us in a quagmire, despite the quick defeat of Saddam's forces. The only ones he's done anything for are big oil companies and defense contractors. That's not nearly enough to propel an economy or win a national election.