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On Tue, 02 Aug 2005 21:57:55 -0400, HarryKrause
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Shortwave Sportfishing wrote:
On Wed, 03 Aug 2005 01:16:14 GMT, Shortwave Sportfishing
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On 1 Aug 2005 10:48:39 -0700, wrote:

~~ snippage ~~

Every major legislative initiative
signed by the president this year has been a boon to special interests,
but ignored the real needs of the American people.
Name one 20th President who has not catered to "special" interests?

Betcha can't.


make that 20th Century President - sorry. :)



It seems as if virtually every Bill Bush signs is a payoff to interests
that do not have the health, welfare, or employment of average Americans
in mind, more so than any other POTUS in my memory.


And that's different from, oh say, Carter who was so incompetent that
he drove the American economy into the ground so hard so fast it took
almost ten years to recover from that mess.

Or Clinton's administration allowing for funky accounting practices
like EBITDA and a SEC that was too lax creating the tech investment
bubble which gave rise to ERON (most of ENRON's fraud occurred during
the Clinton administration - check out any time line you wish).

My point is that every President is prey to charges of favoritism to
his buddies or contributors. They all help their friends.

And today, I heard a report that Bush wants public schools to start
teaching creationism hocus-pocus, and that he's still against expanding
stem cell research.


It's called Intelligent Design and I agree with you on that one. As
to stem cell research, I'm still a little leery of adding more lines
to the research system. I understand from a pragmatic standpoint that
you might as well use the materials that are going to waste anyway,
but it still isn't something that I've reconciled with myself yet.

So I guess, in a sense, I'm sort of with the Prez on this one. :)

When his time in office finally ends, it'll take us years and years to
make up for Bush's Dark Ages.


I don't think it's that bad Harry - I mean really... :)
 
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