From: borden@head-cfa.harvard.edu (Dave Borden)
Newsgroups: alt.politics.clinton
Subject: Re: COMPETENCY
Date: 21 Jan 93 16:11:04 GMT
Reply-To: borden@m5.harvard.edu
Organization: Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA,  USA


In article <2195@blue.cis.pitt.edu>, psg+@pitt.edu (Paul S Galvanek) writes:
> In article <15554.2b5cab9b@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu> vancleef@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu writes:
> 
> >
> >Quit your whining. You people had it your way for 12 years and fucked 
> >everything up.
> 
> Quit your lying Garrett.  Conservatives have never had it our way, they
> have always had to contend with the liberals that control Congress.  If
> Conservatives had ever had their way we would see a country with much lower
> and much flater tax rates, we would see a country were investing, spending
> and success are prized not punished, we would see a government with far
> fewer useless non productive federal regulatory agencies, we would have
> a constitution that requires a balanced federal budget and a line item
> veto for the president to make the cuts that the gut-less Congress can't,
> we'd see a country were crimminals are punished not pampered, we'd live in 
> nation were the federal goverment has less power over the individual and
> one that allows the states and the individuals that live within those
> communites to have more and grant them the right to decide
> for themselves how much government should be involved in their lives and
> we'd have courts and laws that protect all forms of speach and freedom
> of religions, not just those that meet the PC crowds litmus tests. 

Yeah, and you could invade any country you wanted to, and spend the taxpayers'
money on any military project you wanted to, no matter how far-fetched and
technically infeasible (I'm talking about SDI), and send even more DEA forces to
terrorize Andean farmers, and wow, even revive the draft, to _force_ people to
give their lives for their country.  And any drug-users, well, they're criminals,
so why waste money trying to cure them of addiction?  Just lock em up and throw
away the key!  And people should know better than to break the law, so why waste
money trying to educate them about the dangers of drug use?  Let them get
addicted, so we can lock em up - more DEA money and more excuses to terrorize
Latin American farmers, right?  You don't fight a war by educating or giving
medical treatment, do you?  And after all, we are fighting a "War on Drugs"
(translation: war on black people).  And if we can't cut social and education
spending enough to make up for our *fun* programs, that is, the military ones,
then we'll just borrow the money!  What the hell?  The rich own all the bonds,
anyway, so the rich will get richer at the expense of taxpayer-financed interest
charges.

You're right - the conservatives haven't had things all their own way, because
the Republican party is far from being truly conservative.  Milton Friedman is an
advocate of drug-legalization - Ronny and George escalated the "War on Drugs" and
have been pouring billions of dollars into enforcement of an insane and hopeless
military and police-based anti-drug strategy.  No real conservative would approve
of forcing taxpayers to pay for a far-fetched experiment like SDI.  Face it - the
Republican doctrine, at least over the past twelve years, has sometimes coincided
with conservatism but mostly been neither conservative nor liberal, but just
plain bad.

    - Dave Borden
      borden@m5.harvard.edu
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