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In no particular order, some things Rob thinks.
What do you think?
Home Land Security and the Patriot Act do more to protect the US Government from Americans then protecting the American people from terrorist.
Religious Right doesn’t want persecution to stop against them; they want the right to persecute you.
WTO, NAFTA, and now CAFTA, do more harm then good. Help multi-national corporations, Yes, help working people, No.
The US Government, that multi-national corporations have elected, are closer to fascist then conservatives.
The attack on American news media is again done to protect the US government from the people they govern. If the news media don’t or can’t investigate and report news fairly and freely, where are we?
Free markets are not the answer for everything, markets, as with everything, has limits. Free markets are good for producing and selling cars, but not so good for producing health care. I see nothing wrong with the amount of money one has determining the type of car one drives, but the amount of money one has shouldn’t determine the type of health care one receives.
More on health care, it’s a much larger problem for Americans then, say, Social Security by a factor of x100. Why are Americans so aghast at national health care, and so meekly accept HMOs? We don’t want the government to tell us what doctor to see but have little problem with an insurance company telling us.
Health care accounts, who has enough money to put in a health care account that would, say, cover breast cancer?
President Bush and the conservative congress has sold the conservative voters down the river. Three things, smaller government, ha, balanced budget, ha, tax cuts, maybe. Real tax cuts went to so few people I’m not sure they count. Making rich people richer, I don’t think will make the economy better (this is more obvious everyday), create jobs (not yet) or make my life easier.(No change here)
If putting my S.S. in private accounts is such a good idea, why don’t we change a few laws and put the S.S. trust fund in private accounts (Stock Market)?
Tax cuts are/will be paid by cutting social services, who benefits from social services? Bill Gates, George Bush? Or some blue collar worker at Ford/Gm plant that just lost his $20 hr. job?
If President Clinton and a mostly Republican Congress produced a budget surplus, why can’t President Bush and an all Republican Congress do it? Please don’t throw 911 at me, the President and the Congress can’t continue to keep hiding behind this disaster.
Ah, this is enough to keep one thinking for some time.
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