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To: steve harris who wrote (336506)	5/5/2007 3:15:43 PM
From: SilentZ	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576287

>Such as it isn't perjury because of why perjury was committed and/or because it was Clinton, yet Scooter gets hung for trying to answer the interrogator's questions. Dude, legally, if someone lies about something immaterial to a case, it isn't perjury. > Scooter would have been better to have used the Hillary defense: "I cannot recall". Isn't that the Reagan defense, and the Gonzales defense too? >Or Exxon is bad because President Bush and Cheney are oilmen. That's not the reason Exxon is bad. >Or Walmart is bad because they have successfully blocked unions, while at the same time, driving some of their unionized competitors out of business. Yeah, that's pretty bad. >Yet Microsoft gets a free pass while gouging customers at 30% margins. I'm not giving them a free pass. The DOJ certainly went after them in the '90s... how quickly we forget. >I cannot seriously consider any politician justifying tax increases by saying the government is broke. Looking at your examples of waste, they pale in comparison to the hundreds of billions of dollars going down the tube every year in military spending. Besides, while I don't like some of the waste that does go on, the existence of some waste, or even a lot of waste, doesn't justify not funding important social programs. >The democrats' solution with their $124 billion military spending bill is "well, if Mr Bush is going to blow money, we're going to join him and blow the peoples' tax money too" by adding 24% unnecessary pork to it. IIRC, most of the extra money was to pay for reconstruction in New Orleans, something really important that can't seem to get funded any other way. And no, I don't like the peanut stuff, either. >The choice for me today is Bush cutting taxes and fighting terrorism or the democrats raising taxes and funding their special interest projects, in addition to cutting our security needs. And it's a false dilemma. >Corporations that have employees benefit society. When properly regulated, and when they don't leave those employees and their families without healthcare and a proper education. >Walmart here pays about a buck more an hour than any burger flippin joint. But waaaaay less than the kinds of jobs that the people who work there would've thirty years ago. >If the efforts to destroy Walmart were focused on decreasing outsourcing, I think the benefit to Americans would be greater. Destroying Wal-mart isn't necessary; we just need to keep them from destroying our Main Streets and wage scales. And yes, as I said earlier, outsourcing is bad for us and we need to do something about that, too. >I've noticed over the past few months Walmart has been raising prices, so I start my errands by going to Dollar General first. And if Wal-Mart manages to put Dollar General out of business? >I don't recall your suggestion for what Israel should do. I'm not sure why Israel exists in the first place, but now that it does, I'd like it to either decide to give every inhabitant of the West Bank and Gaza the vote or to give both territories up, and I'd like it to not leave a million people homeless because a militant group captured two soldiers. >I propose that if Israel would disappear tomorrow, the Muslims in the middle east would continue fighting and hating the west. If Scotty or Geordi would show up with power converters for everyone, violent Islam would continue to grow. I think that's false. Israel isn't the only reason we're disliked over there. Dude, the West has been screwing with the Middle East for a thousand years. You don't think that has anything to do with the problems there? -Z