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

To: Orcastraiter who wrote (462422)	9/21/2003 3:38:26 PM
From: American Spirit	Respond to of 769670

The California economy is improving now. Bush and the Texas energy companies deserve more blame than Davis for the recession. Most of what the GOP claims about Davis is now history, plus they also refuse to accept their responsibility for a big part of our problems, mostly for their phony energy crisis, which BTW is still happening to some degree. Energy companies continue gouging with Bush-Cheney support.

To: Orcastraiter who wrote (462422)	9/21/2003 3:41:43 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

the amazing thing about the free market advocators is that they don't want the same principles applied to them. This hypocrisy is another reason I am certain Bush will lose in 04. The offshore trends in technology have killed the labor market for the major source of good jobs for those under 40. No support from repubicans on this, not even an attempt to stem the illegal abuse of visas. Otoh, Halliburton and Bechtel are awarded closed bid contracts with no free market influence and drug companies are protected from worldwide markets on the basis of some weak safety excuse. Goodbye GOP in 04

To: Orcastraiter who wrote (462422)	9/21/2003 7:43:28 PM
From: Wayners	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

The problem is there is no way to tell if they are fair or not unless the free market determines them. The free market our country was founded on is superior and absolutely efficient (some would say mean-spirited) in figuring out the balance between supply and demand. Any other system begs for inefficiencies and actually rewarding inefficiency and lower productivity and lower standards of living. The communist system was tried and it failed miserably most notably in North Korea and the former Soviet Union. Why did it fail? Because instead of a class of rich people, now the Government was the substitute for the former rich class. Nobody was willing to work basically as a slave to somebody else. Communism is slavery with a different name. You do a lot of work and somebody takes the products of your labor in return for low quality housing, low quality food, rationing, mass shortages of consumer goods, little choice in products etc. When you work and somebody takes your hard earned money away from you in high taxes or 100% confiscation in the communist system, THAT IS SLAVERY! Don't you people understand this?