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

To: Orcastraiter who wrote (633528)	9/27/2004 2:15:39 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Respond to of 769670

Diabolical,,, LOL.... Bushies Plot to Make Kerry Sweat Ever seen the footage of Richard Nixon sweating under the hot lights while debating John Kennedy? President Bush's campaign strategists intend to give Sen. John Kerry the same treatment. "They blocked Kerry's request to have the debate room chilled below 70 degrees, leaving Kerry's glands at the mercy of the thermostat at the University of Miami" on Thursday night, the New York Post reported today. Time magazine quoted "one GOP official" as saying, "He's a sweater, and women don't like sweaters." Oh, wait. Blue-blooded Back Bay elitists, like ladies, don't sweat. They perspire. newsmax.com

To: Orcastraiter who wrote (633528)	9/27/2004 4:41:20 PM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

It appears that we agree that most government spending is wasteful. The progress of the economy since the passage of th19th amendment has followed most the path taken by other republics. The drafters of our Constitution wisely kept the federal government poor. If a friend comes to you and asks for $100, you may give it to her. If a friend asks you for a $100 and there is a pile of other peoples’ money right next to you, you are more likely to lean over and pick $100 and give it to her, you may even throw in a few more dollars. The theory that giving free money to the poor will help the economy has been proven wrong. It has been amply demonstrated that rewarding taxpayers instead of non-payers is far more effective. In the case of the tax rebates and tax cuts passed in the last few years, it appears to have been highly effective in stimulating the economy. Taxes should be flat. All people should pay the same percentage of their income. Today half of the voters have no vested interest in fiscal responsibility. Any government largess is free of cost to them. Someone else is paying taxes to pay for it, but not them. The reality that taxes filter through their other costs does not register with them. Efforts to enforce efficiency monitoring in government are always likely to fail. Government employees tend to be lifers. Most do not report to anyone, and cannot be made to feel accountable for their performance. Government budgets reward waste. At the end of each fiscal year departments scramble to waste all of the remaining money from their budget. Future budgets are based on previous expenditures. Failure to spend it all will result in a smaller baseline. Almost all functions of the government can be more effectively and less expensively performed by the private sector. Even welfare was more efficient prior to the advent of the government takeover. It was done on a local basis, often with churches taking the lead. The Constitution specifically authorized the federal government to provide for the common defense, a unified foreign policy, and a common currency. While you can argue that there are other good things that it does, it would be difficult to outweigh the bad.