Posted on 07/15/2002 1:08:24 AM PDT by weikel
My friends, remember this: the federal government continues to waste tens of billions of dollars each and every year. The federal government continues to pollute the Potomac River. Federal employees started the most devastating forest fires ever in New Mexico, Colorado and Arizona. One of those idiots was a part-timer whose job was putting out fires, so to make work for himself, he started one. Jeez!
Yet nobody investigates the federal government! These people lose tens of trillions of dollars. They lie to the American people about the phony Social Security trust fund and the financial condition of Medicare and Medicaid, and they continue to spend billions of dollars propping up favorite constituents like the dairy industry and certain farmers. We attack these problems in this country. All we do is pass more laws, giving the government more power to regulate and taking more power from the people.
Those found guilty of committing fraud at Enron or Global Crossing, WorldCom or Tyco are going to have the book thrown at them - and that's as it should be. But when politicians lie about the financial state of federal programs or knowingly seek to expand programs to the point where they're going to go broke, we don't charge these politicians with fraud. We reelect 'em! And if you don't continue to support the fraud being perpetrated against you by paying your taxes, you wind up going to jail!
Capitalism will fix this - we don't need new laws
We have all the laws on the books we need to get these corporate goons that did this. We have more than enough laws on the books. We don't need more, and we don't need more government intrusion into American business. Capitalism is remarkable; it fixes itself. But Republicans are just like Democrats, and their #1 objective is to get re-elected. And if they sense the American people demanding action on this because the Democrats are going to have resonance with this, then they will join the chorus.
They'll say, "Yeah, we need to come up with new, more strict controls over American business and CEOs, and particularly those accounting companies out there," and we're going to end up with more obstacles for capitalism and capitalists and entrepreneurs. Remember what I said last week: the key to this economy, and market coming back is entrepreneurism - people willing to take risks. We need people who are going to take the risk of doing something, to come up with amazing things that inspire confidence.
But if we continue to come up with laws or tax policy that punish risk takers, and then punish them again when they achieve after taking risks we're going to kill the golden goose. And that's what the Democrats are eager to do because, remember, they want the government to get credit for everything good because they are the party of government. They are not the party of individuals; they are not the party of freedom, and they are not certainly the party of entrepreneurism or risk taking. They are the party of more and bigger government. They dream of a day when they can say the government made this nation great, and they're doing all they can to make that happen.
To paraphrase John McCain: "Everybody in Washington DC is corrupted"!
And OJ is still searching for the real killer!
Jesse is still tryin' to get votes counted in FLA, and..........Ah hell. You know the drill! Stay well armed and vigilant, pal. ............FRegards
Good point Rush.......
Weapon of choice - BAR belt-fed.
P.S., Think of what may happened if the Senate had done its sworn duty vis-a-vis Bubba!
Gore would've run as an incumbent and probably won. God does indeed bring good out of evil.
But the " ... no controlling legal authority...," the temple, ... may have come into play at some point.
Bottom line - in the United States some (and it seems more and more) people are above the law.
Nope, jama! It didn't hurt algorethevp, and if he had been algorethepotusincumbant, we'd have algorethepotus apologizing for the WTC to Saudi Arabia.
algorethe-ex-vp is an exceedingly stupid person. If you told him to grab his ass with both hands, he'd cross his arms first!............FRegards
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