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Politics : Bush-The Mastermind behind 9/11? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: MSI who wrote (1719)	8/4/2003 11:38:00 PM
From: Sidney Reilly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20039

You are right about that. Every bit. And I bet the $2 trillion is somewhere spent on secret projects and installations that would never be approved by Congress so they do end runs around Congress. I've read about underground cities ready for "the government" to move in in case of a war, nuclear, chemical, biological. They have their hides and their families covered. They can afford to lose a couple billion people on the surface though. That's actually a new world order goal. Population reduction. I wonder what the interest from $2 trillion would be for, say, one minute. I could probably live on that a thousand years.

To: MSI who wrote (1719)	8/5/2003 12:36:27 AM
From: rrufff	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20039

There's not much in your post with which I'd find fault. Keep in mind that what you are saying is true for governments from the beginning of recorded history and perhaps before. The "masses" are too busy scurrying around earning their "bread", taking care of their families, solving the problems of life that they do not pay attention to what is happening in "government." Percentage of voters is abysmal, even worse is knowledge. The average person does not know the name of his Congressman and a higher percentage does not know the name of their state reps even though those people make laws and rules that take 1/2 of their income. Those who rise in "government" tend to be those who find ways to take advantage of this and are able to push their own interests under the guise of doing good for the people or their purported causes, some of which are pure hate-filled diatribes attempting to focus on others so that they can get popular support. Given all that, I still believe we have the best superpower government in the history of the world (and I'm not referring to the party in power at a given time.) However, we can do better. I'm not sure about the revolution because I'm not sure of man can come up with something better. You get what you pay for and people are now willing to do more to get more. I would start with less secrecy and more investigation. If that were the case, you wouldn't have so much bandwidth dedicated to this type of thread. Even though logic quickly causes me to dismiss the premise of this thread, I can see why the level of secrecy causes the cynics and extremists to come out of the woodwork.