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

To: JDN who wrote (596864)	7/29/2004 6:41:18 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Well, I come down on the side of scientific advancement, care and treatment and the possibility of cures for the ill, and the promotion of the industries --- and the jobs --- of the future... instead of letting these jobs and investments leave our shores and go to other nations. Bush straddled the issue, calculated the effects on his political base, and then made the purely political choice to sign up with the Luddites. As a result, American spinal cord and Lou Gherig's disease patients (to name just a few) are traveling to England and to mainland China to get life-saving treatments because the treatments are banned in the US, and biotech businesses are planning the industries of the future (and the jobs that go with them) in locations other then the US....