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

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (617101)	9/3/2004 12:21:24 AM
From: alan w	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Get a big settlement Kenny? Plenty of time on your hands?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (617101)	9/3/2004 11:15:01 AM
From: BlackDog777	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

"where they have led on jobs and the economy?" 1. You put too much emphasis on the executive branch. The presidency has basically been neutered by an overly aggressive legislative & out of control judicial system in the last 50 years. I don't worry about Kerry, if he wins, he'll have to toe-the-line. Besides, he's never been an aggressive legislator, why would he change as president. 2. I'm a free market advocate. I see government only as a deterrence to that and hope their role is minimal. To me, it's just a matter of how much the government is going to screw things up, which is their inherent nature. Don't forget this...this country became the most formidable on earth by free enterprise mixed in with some good ole fashioned exploitation. The government, by it's framers design of being extremely-limited, was a docile bystander. Not today though...it's the 800 lb. gorilla with it's cage left unlocked. How does the government create jobs without...A-lowering intervention in the markets on their part or B-subsidizing them at the taxpayers expense? (which has never worked) 3. Economy 101 will teach you that all economies are cyclical. The economy was extremely frothy in the late 90's and a cyclical downturn was more than just in the cards. You mix that natural cycle in with a dot.com meltdown; cooked books by several companies (which had been going on a lot longer than Inauguration Day 2000)which exacerbated the market downturn; a terrorist attack on our homeland; and a lot of FUD. 4. Deficits at this level are all hype. Absolute hype! We've got like a $17T economy & a $5T debt...big deal. How many Americans in the country have a $70K salary with a $200K in debts...where is the hysteria about that? Economics 101 again...prime the pump when the cycle is down & pay it off when the cycle is up (this has been the problem) The key is keeping that $17T economy on a growth schedule and government, in the history of the whole world with trading, has never been a very good solution.