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To: Ilaine who wrote (75487)	10/7/2004 1:10:35 PM
From: abstract	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793917

Of course, you are right. All 150 mostly full professors who signed that document are wrong and you are right. Just like the sick psycho psychiatrist who said to me "you know what 10,000 abused women have in common? They don't listen!" Talk about denial: How about cheney saying "that Iraq (didn't) produced weapons of mass destruction after 1991, justifies rather than undermines President Bush's decision to go to war." Following that brilliant logic perhaps your house will be next, inasmuch as absence of evidence is all the reason they need. Do not forget what Pogo said !

To: Ilaine who wrote (75487)	10/8/2004 9:55:39 AM
From: Mary Cluney	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793917

Bush gets no respect. I don't respect Clinton either. Clinton does not tell the truth about his personal life, but that does not prevent me from seeing that during his time in office the economy was managed properly. Clinton was smart enough to appoint Robert Rubin Treasury Secretary. He was smart enough to allow Rubin to do his job. Bush could not get along with Paul O'Neil, his first choice for Secretary of the Treasury. He could not get along with his first set of economic advisors. Who does he get his economic advice from? Don't tell me he knows enough about economics to manage the economy of our country on his own. Milton Friedman is a economist of the Conservative philosophy of the first rank. He does not think there is a coherent management of the countries economy. Okay, you can't blame everthing on the President. The President can do just so much. Just as in a horse race - a great jockey can not make a horse run faster than the horse is capable of running - but a great jockey will get as much out of a horse as the horse is capable of running - and not slow up the horse. In pretty much the same way, the President of the United States, can't make the economy grow faster than it is capable of growing - but a President can really screw things up. For whatever reason, if you allow yourself to get into debt, that can not be a good thing. Getting yourself into enormous debt is even worse. Giving huge tax breaks (especially during times like these) to the enormously wealthy is not a smart thing to do. Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, George Soros, Larry Ellison and many of the other wealthiest people in the nation all say they do not need the tax cuts. They are worried about the economy. Basically, for them, what is good for the country is also good for them. At the end of the day, it probably does not make that much difference whether the President of the United States is philosophically one way or the other. In either case, you can probably get very responsible people to manage the economy. The point is, the President has to be smart enough to be able to manage very intelligent people - even those that share your philosophic label. You have to have some understanding of your own philosophy. I don't think Bush has that understanding. He has been a slacker most of his life. He can't get up to speed - especially on subjects like economics overnight by reading a few books (I suspect he has not even done that much). The people he deals with on economics - have spent enormous amount of time studying their subject matter. You can't pretend you know something about the subject and be able to choose from the choices that your economic adviors will present. That will inevitably be the case. The economic advisors can only provide the President with a set of choices to make. The President has to be smart enough to be able to make those choices.