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

To: Rock_nj who wrote (579480)	5/29/2004 6:12:34 PM
From: BubbaFred	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

<<...plenty of good ways to spend that money domestically, on roads to schools. If anything, a conservative should be against such wastefule and reckless spending. Especially with the budget deficit approaching $500 Billion...>> That's also my biggest gripe, plus the lies and deceit for invading Iraq - for whose benefits? So much money being wasted that can be better off to improve our education system and for scientific and technological research. That's what I thought back in 2000. Instead it has been such utter and wretched disappointment, and even worse is the additional exemplary lies and deceit to lower society's ethical standards - on top of the Enron and Worldcom scandals that now seems like minor transgressions by comparison. I watched a tv news one morning where some college students were interviewed on lies and cheating. The students found it more acceptable as long as they are not caught. So cheats, lies and deceits will be become the society's norm and acceptable way of doing things, and part of creativity. It's going back to yesteryears when you can brew some concoctions and sell it as elixir for all type of ailments. I am sure the concoction works like magic for some people who probably only needed something to swing their moods. Even if it works on 5% of the buyers, it's still testimony to the magical concoction. If it were the original coke, then it works on most of the drinkers. After all, the end justifies the means. Especially if the public believes it's so.