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

To: RON BL who wrote (440839)	8/10/2003 4:47:03 PM
From: sylvester80	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Since Bush took power Bush LOST more than 3 million jobs and that number continues to climb every month. During Clinton's presidency, Clinton CREATED 20 MILLION JOBS!!!!!!! Which part of LOST and CREATE don't you understand????? Are neoCON fanatics blinded that much by criminal stupidity or are they just born that way???? ----------------------- 20 Million New Jobs Created under the Clinton-Gore Administration. In 1993, when President Clinton took office, the American economy was barely creating jobs, wages were stagnant, and the unemployment rate was 7.5 percent. Due in large part to the President's three-part economic strategy of fiscal discipline, investing in the American people, and opening markets abroad, we are enjoying the longest peacetime economic expansion in the nation's history. Today, President Clinton announced the findings of a report by the Department of Labor and the Council of Economic Advisers that show that under his leadership: 20 million new jobs have been created since 1993, the most ever created under a single administration Of these new jobs, 92% are in the private sector, and most are full-time; 81% of these new jobs are in job categories that pay above median wage; The unemployment rate is the lowest it has been in nearly 30 years; Employment gains have been strong for all major subgroups of the population. African-American and Hispanic employment rose to record highs, and the unemployment rates fell to record lows. The unemployment rate for women is now lower than at any time since 1953; Real wages have risen for four straight years, the longest and fastest wage growth in more than two decades. Real wages have risen across the board; and Job displacement rates have been on the decline.

To: RON BL who wrote (440839)	8/10/2003 5:52:53 PM
From: GROUND ZERO™	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

So, what do you have against oil companies? Without oil, you could never have the lifestyle you and your family now know and enjoy... you can't have the cake and eat it... GZ

To: RON BL who wrote (440839)	8/10/2003 8:00:50 PM
From: miraje	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

By the way no freedom loving people allow government to educate the people. The results of which are truly scary. The level of ignorance in this country is appalling. Try not to feel ill as you read this... reviewjournal.com COLUMN: Thomas Mitchell 'Where the press is free ... all is safe' There was a quiescent child. He never cried or fussed. He crawled at the appropriate age. He walked, was weaned and potty trained. But he did not speak. Not a word. His parents took him to all the specialists, but they could find no malady. Then one day at the breakfast table, the child looked up and said, "This oatmeal is lumpy." His parents were ecstatic. "You can talk! Why've you never spoken before. What has brought this on? Why are you suddenly speaking?" "Well," the child replied, "everything was fine up until now." Americans are a largely quiescent lot. We draw our paychecks. We live out our quiet lives without disturbing our neighbors or creating much of a fuss. And we want to keep it that way. It was no surprise to me when the latest annual survey on the "State of the First Amendment" by the First Amendment Center found less then half of all Americans (48 percent) strongly agree with the concept that "newspapers should be allowed to publish freely without government approval of a story." Twenty-eight percent disagreed and thought the government should approve a story before it appears in print. Everything is fine. Our parental government should keep it that way, and don't bother us with facts or controversy. The survey -- a scientific telephone poll of 1,000 Americans conducted in early June by the Center for Survey Research & Analysis at the University of Connecticut -- also found that 46 percent say the press in this country "has too much freedom." Only 9 percent thought we have too little press freedom, while 43 percent said things are about right. Thomas Jefferson is spinning in his grave. In 1816 Jefferson postulated the formula for preservation of freedom: "The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents. There is no safe deposit for these but with the people themselves, nor can they be safe with them without information. Where the press is free, and every man able to read, all is safe." What kind of country have we devolved into when more than a fourth of Americans would rather be spoon-fed by the functionaries than use their own wits by reading a free press and a plurality thinks the press has too much freedom? Ignorance of the First Amendment is rampant. The survey found very few can name more than one of the five rights delineated there. Fully 37 percent didn't know any or refused to answer. One out of five listed some right that isn't even there. Sixty-three percent could recall freedom of speech, but only 16 percent could come up with freedom of the press and 22 percent with freedom of religion. One out of 10 named right of assembly, while the lowly and misremembered right to petition the government for redress of grievances was listed by a paltry 2 percent. The right to go fight city hall is easy to forget when it generally is a futile gesture anyway. After revealing that echoing void between the ears, when asked how they would "rate the job that the American educational system does in teaching students about First Amendment freedoms," only 29 percent said the system was doing a poor job. Is this the definition of blissful ignorance? Adding hypocrisy to ignorance, 95 percent agreed that people should be allowed to express unpopular opinions -- 74 percent strongly agreed and 21 percent mildly. But ... isn't there always a but? Sixty-one percent said people should not be allowed to say things in public that might be offensive to racial groups. Fifty percent said you shouldn't be allowed to say something offensive to religious groups. Just how is one to express unpopular views if the government is supposed to approve what goes into the newspaper? Someday the quiescent American just might wake up and remark: "The mattress in this jail cell is lumpy. Why didn't the press tell me my liberty and property were being taken by the functionaries?"