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

To: goldworldnet who wrote (566646)	4/19/2004 12:10:49 PM
From: JDN	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

I saw that and was disgusted. Its even effecting medical schools. My son was SUPPOSED to be a medical doctor, he was a straight A student etc etc. The people at his university convinced him MEDICINE IS DYING so he switched to science. Damn shame, he wanted to be a Pediatrician and is very good with kids, society lost a potential good one IMHO. jdn

To: goldworldnet who wrote (566646)	4/19/2004 2:49:20 PM
From: Doren	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Lawyers are a good reason to think libertarian. My brother is in the building business. Sometimes he gets sued on jobs he didn't even work on. It's a lottery. I can assure you there is no one more honest or hardworking than my brother. He works on some of the most expensive homes in the world in the Rancho Sante Fe area. I was started our business but quit in disgust with the incompetent inspectors and regulations. Lawyers are also a problem on the government side though. Prosecutors get too much money compared to the accused. Take the McMartin child molester case. Two trials. The prosecution spent 17 million. No convictions but they ruined the (innocent in my view) people they prosecuted. How many people could match that kind of legal team? The OJ case was a case where the prosecution was incompetent and used to winning even though they were incompetent. Used to bullying defendants who can't match their fiscal muscle the prosecution was totally flummoxed when having to prove a case against an equal legal team. Unfortunately the Libertarians were taken over by right wing extremists. I was sickened by their lack of compassion and common sense. They had some wonderful moderate candidates in the beginning but gradually became shrill advocates of their own pet complaints. Particularly their advocation of the total abolition of the income tax. I personally favor a consumption tax but I just thought it was political suicide for the Libertarians to advocate a total abolition instead of a gradual change over. Plus as I said most of them seemed heartless. I realized I was a Libertarian in 1976 after reading the interview with Karl Hess in the July issue of Playboy. I was stunned that there were others like me who had come to the conclusion that all governments were essentially evil. Before that I had been a libertarian but there was no party that shared my views. I'm still a person who believes in less government in many areas. For instance I was an early advocate of school vouchers. I figure if you want your kids to have bible school instead of science that's fine with me, as a matter of fact it's peachy. Just gives the kids of rational parents an advantage. I do think we should limit personal contributions to voucher schools to the general fund and prohibit personal contributions to individual schools. I believe that government has SOME legitimate functions that cannot be done by private industry. I believe in voucher universal medical care. I also advocate loosening the borders but making immigrants pay into the system for 10 years with no benefits. Otherwise we end up being a population valve for the world. Particularly Catholic countries where citizens have a poor record of bending over to oppressive governments. Lately corporations scare me more than governments though. Their powers are unchecked and continue to increase and a corporation has no morals period. I'm also sickened by what I'd call the chicken crapped cowards who want to scrap the Bill of Rights for convenience sake. Ashcroft is a lazy jerk who can't take the heat the Bill of Rights places on unchecked government. And I don't agree with those who want to dismantle the 2nd amendment, at least without an amendment. I believe in a strong DEFENSE not offense. Isolationism has gotten a undeserved bad name. Look at Switzerland, they don't have problems like we have.