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["Shea Tisdale" <shea AT sheatisdale.com>]

You're right on the money, the Stone Cutters control everything and we are
just pawns in their little game.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kurt Schlatzer" <kurt AT kurtschlatzer.com>
To: "Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/";
<internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 3:39 PM
Subject: RE: [internetworkers] Iraq costs are skyrocketing


> > okay, now can anyone give a well-reasoned justification for keeping
> > Dubya Bush in office?  really, please do elucidate because i am having
> > a very difficult time finding any reason(s) to keep him around.
> >
> > /drm
>
> Because it really doesn't matter who is in the Whitehouse. There are
forces
> far greater than the charade of Democrat vs. Republican that guide our
> government and our relationship with the rest of the world. The president
> can't control the economy or the fundamentalist idiots throughout the
world
> any more than you and I could. Especially since he inherited a steaming
pile
> of dung from the Clinton administration. If anyone is to blame for our
> economic condition, it's us. We're credit-happy. We continuously live
beyond
> our means. We consume more than we create. We demand higher salaries than
> we're worth. Our industries continue to produce expensively manufactured
and
> poorly designed crap that nobody wants. We pay our farmers to grow food
> nobody wants. I could go on and on.
>
> As for the money the government spends to clean up the mess in the Middle
> East and elsewhere, most of it ends up back in OUR economy. If we packed
up
> and left from Iraq, Korea, Afganistan and all of our other interests,
there
> wouldn't be a Democrat, Republican or anyone else capable of dealing with
> the loss to the economy and the millions of unemployed workers that would
> hit the streets as a result. If we had done nothing after 9/11, our
economy
> would be worse off than it is now.
>
> And, if it was about oil, I'm fine with that. I like to drive. And when
I'm
> driving my imported car through this fine American landscape burning
"cheap"
> gas, I won't have to look at oil wells, just billboards selling our
> expensively manufactured and poorly designed crap that nobody wants ;-)
>
> Kurt
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