Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

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

To: Neocon who wrote (410376)	5/30/2003 11:36:53 AM
From: Neeka	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769670

There is nothing wrong with society giving a helping hand to it's most needy members. What some people want to do is make sure that it doesn't get out of hand like it did in the 60s ever again. There is also nothing wrong with public scrutiny or questioning of and participation in how our tax dollars are being spent. For too long most of us trusted they were being spent wisely. $600.00 socket wrenches the projects of NYC and Detroit, and perpetual baby making machines for another $250.00 a month opened our eyes. Never again.... M

To: Neocon who wrote (410376)	5/30/2003 11:45:38 AM
From: CYBERKEN	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

The future is a government banned from supporting the failures of society, while getting out of the way of the private entities who SCREEN and help the unfortunate. The transfer of stolen wealth from the thieving, unproductive public sector back to the private sector-and the resulting elimination of bureaucrats who soak up the resources targeted for the needy-is the future of the so-called "safety net". It is all that will be tolerated (and, most likely, heavily supported) by a newly-diligent public. The old Lyndon Johnson fraud-"If we could beat Germany and Japan, and land a man on the moon, we should be able to fight a "War on Poverty."-has long since been exposed as a political scam, and is FINALLY on its way out...