Re: [CTRL] Bush Finally Admits DUI Arrest

[Terry]

> At least Clinton/Gore balanced the budget for a change, as opposed to > 300 Billion + deficits and sluggish economy during the Reagan/Bush years. Carter was too blind to figure out the future effects of inflation. We bit the bullet for a couple years until we had a run of prosperity. ==== This explains the Reagan year economics I would think, it's how I remember it.  Didn't Reagan have a tax cut in order to stimulate the inflated economy? > Now we have an booming economy, Yes > and a budget surplus. Heh heh heh... I.O.U.'s   ======Surplus is only on paper; statistics lie > I guess some > would like to return to the failed ways of the past. Get a few > hundred more > dollars back from a tax cut, Clinton either lied, told us what we wanted to hear or didn't know what the hell he was promising us. I think it was all of the former. I curious as to where all this money is coming from with all these new programs Gore is promising us. ========He lied, like he has with so many other items, AND told us what we wanted to hear, like with so many other items.    The money is perhaps coming from "expected savings" from belt-tightening and other smoke-and-mirrors tricks. > with higher interest rates, Didn't Greenspan hike interest rates a while back??? > higher  unemployment, Well we've got alot of jobs...too bad they don't pay spit.   ==========Haven't you heard of all the layoffs in the communicaitons industries in the past 2-3 years?? > soaring medical costs, etc. Heh heh heh...evidently you haven't looked at your paycheck stub recently or don't have any hospitalization. Mine increases 50 cents per hour next week and they informed us it will go up another 20 cents per hour next June. ==========Soaring primarily because of malpractice insurance, which is rising because doctors/hospitals do things like amputate the wrong foot (Tampa General). > Just give the big companies a big tax break > and everything will be ok! I think you are dreaming... You're gonna have to get back in this reality. Something has to be done here. In Michigan we've had a bustling economy but...in our local area alone we've lost a General Motors Plant 8000 workers, most of the production facilities at Kellogg's Cereals, we had a Monsanto merger with Pharmacia/Upjohn with over 2000 jobs lost and we're waiting on the rumored American Home Products buyout/merger where they buyout and trash what they don't want. But then that's Ok cause we keep getting these Fast Food Restaurants on every street corner for job security.   ========Same scenario in New England.  I've been wondering whether the reason unemployment stats are so good is, besides them cooking them for political and public consumption, that this younger workforce is on welfare, disability and/or sheltered work programs.  It would be easy to take them out of the workforce calculation, or into it, as needed and whenever needed.  Like those trust fund IOU's. I remember when James Blanchard (democrat) was last Governor here, things seemed peachy until our 16 billion dollar debt caught up with us. John Engler(republican) found the "books were cooked" cleaned up the debt and put us on a surplus. We could have a rude awakening if Bush gets in and has a bunch of "Pro's" sort through the books that were handled by Clinton's Cronie's. Bush is smart enough to surround himself with qualified professionals and not "good old buddies".   =======Shades of Whitewater.  And don't forget Cattlegate. I still like to say I'm non-partisan but enough is enough. We need a little bit of both but it's time to get a republican in there to sort through it all and see what we've really got. Gore's making too many promises and trying to be too many things to too many people just like Clinton did. He's telling us what we want to hear.   =======For sure.  While Republican in leaning, I am voting more against Gore than I am for Bush.  One big reason is that I feel Gore is more pro-UN and pro-nationalism and pro-New World Order/One World Government and I am decidedly not.    So I agree with G. Virtuoso's comment, IF ONE HAD TO CHOOSE THE "LESSER OF TWO EVILS," WHICH IS ESSENTIALLY THE GAME PLAN ANYWAY ... YOU'D HAVE TO GO WISH BUSH ... SURELY???   We are about to lose the bill of rights and constitution with Clinton & Gore and Democratic Party! ============We already have lost them, the loss is just not apparent yet. Well why don;t someone ask Gore and Clinton if they are Communists?  They are traitors! =========The definition of a traitor used to, years ago, include selling out one's country's financial interests to foreigners.  Like NAFTA.  I agree they are traitors.     We know what stress did to Clinton. ;-) ==========It was hardly "stress"!  It was purely lust and opportunity.  Now the whole world, present and future, will remember him for this.  He deserves that; it is nothing more than the truth.   Then there's the Lincoln Bedroom shame. Clinton's conduct is on a par with the one who did not even TRY to rescue the lady in the car in the canal.