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

To: JDN who wrote (411178)	6/3/2003 9:46:32 AM
From: CYBERKEN	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

The Nevada legislature will most likely give socialist-Republican Kenny Guinn his tax gouge in a special session later this week or next-but the forces of reason at least forced it into a special session, and also shifted some of the increase to the gaming industry (which, people tend to forget, is the only reason for it's existence). Rather than make the necessary restructurings and cuts, socialist-Republican and former school district bureaucrat Gov. Kenny Guinn buddied up to the local anti-American Democrat jackasses and announced "I have cut all I can possibly cut", and then called any legislator who wouldn't rob their constituents cowards. Thus the teachers' unions and the bureaucrats' unions will likely get most of the featherbedding and overpayments that they have been looking for. There's still a chance that the working people of Nevada will be defended (it takes 2/3 of the legislature to raise taxes and Guinn is still making Castro-like political threats against the peoples' defenders). Perhaps, now that the special session has been forced, a committee on reducing and re-structuring the state's massive waste can be included, similar to the socialist-packed "revenue" committee that they let Guinn have two years ago-and which provided cover for his current robbery...

To: JDN who wrote (411178)	6/3/2003 5:02:35 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Re: "Its not often spoken of, but it is my understanding that ONE of the reasons behind Bush trying to push through tax cuts often besides economic recovery is an attempt TO LIMIT expanding government spending programs." >>> Yep. That's the public rationale given, same as it was in the eighties... to bad it never happened. Which makes me highly skeptical that it will now ("fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me!) >>> Once a politician leans he can BORROW all the money he ever dreamed of spending... than whatever 'restraints' there ever were on spending disappear. Re: I remember Reagan saying when he was Governor of Calif. "Politicians are like Children, the more you give them the more they will spend, the ONLY way to control them is to CUT THEIR ALLOWANCE" >>> Nice sound bite... but as long as balanced budgets don't matter, then merely cutting taxes does NOTHING to cut 'politician's allowances'. >>> The WORST part of it is - once the politicians have deficit borrowed to enable their spending binge - than those interest costs on the federal debt are there whether spending discipline EVER returns, or not. >>> They have OBLIGATED future generations.