From: gerard@caliban.soest.hawaii.edu (Gerard Fryer)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre,alt.politics.bush,alt.politics.clinton
Subject: Re: BUSH
Date: 23 Jul 92 18:52:25 GMT
Organization: University of Hawaii

In article <1992Jul23.111641.8128@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>, c60a-zg@volga.Berkeley.EDU (Martin Guerrero-LabA) writes:
|> In article <1992Jul22.142048.371@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> crussel@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Carol A Russell) writes:
|> >Please, Elan - how has Bush even started us on this road to greatness?  Do you 
|> >call the growing AIDS crisis, the LA riots, the deepening economic problems
|> >GREAT?
|> 
|> Growing AIDS crisis?  Why does everybody blame society or the president
|> for the growing AIDS crisis.  It came and it is still here because some
|> people absolutely refuse to change their behavior.
|> 
|> True a very small amount got AIDS from blood transfusions but most got it
|> through behavior as in Promiscuous, dangerour sex, and/or drugs!
|> 
How do you answer for unwanted (and often illegitimate) kids forced
into prostitution to make ends meet who just don't have the power to
insist on safe sexual practices?  Bush's refusal to support AIDS
education at anything like the level required, and his mere lip service
to "family values," are killing people.  Your classical red-blooded
American males seem doomed.  Ironic that most of them are Republicans.

|> Deepening economic problems?  As if Jimmy Carter and other fellow Democrats
|> had it all happy happy joy joy in that great and lovely year of '79 where
|> the misery index was much much greater.  Prosperity under the Reagan
|> years had been great.  Give the man a break.
|> 
True, there is plenty of blame to ladle around.  But don't forget that
the slide towards economic chaos came with the gigantic increase in
military spending under the Carter regime which ballooned into the
absurdities of the Reagan era. And who was primarily responsible for
that increase? George Bush, as CIA director, who basically stifled the
internal report showing that the Soviets were nowhere near the threat
we took them to be.  Instead he chose to push the worst-case scenario
which was based on almost no information at all.  Carter shouldn't have
been as naive as he was, but how do you figure George Bush?  As
Vice-President he was in a position to explain the errors and get
national policy corrected.  Instead he did nothing.

The Reagan properity was an illusion too.  If you go out and borrow
absolutely the maximum you can against your house then you too can live
like a king for a while.  But sooner or later it's time to pay up.
Well, later is now.

|> Besides, why are we all blaming one man for our country's problems?  If you
|> look at our Constitution, you will see that THREE branches of gov't share
|> power.  ONLY one of them is the Executive office.  What about Congress?
|> Doesn't Congress have the same IF not MORE than the Executive office?
|> Hey, wouldn't you rather make laws instead of just carry them out?  
|> Congress wields a great power and guess who controls them?  Why does
|> everybody blame Bush?  Why not Congress too?

The President still deserves a lion's share of the blame.  The
executive branch of government, being by its very nature more coherent,
is in a much better position to establish policy.  Remember that
Congress' function is advice and consent.  Regarding the third branch
of government, Bush has shown us quite clearly that he has contempt for
that.

-- 
Gerard Fryer  (g.fryer@soest.hawaii.edu)
School of Ocean & Earth Science & Technology
University of Hawaii at Manoa
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