The Bush campaign said the candidate had properly performed his duties and had not used drugs. Earlier this year, the Boston Globe reported that there are no records to show that Bush even attended Guard training sessions from May 1972 to April 1973, and that in May 1973 officers at Ellington Air Force Base in Houston claimed that Bush hadn't been there for a year. While the fair-trade movement has been focusing on stopping the export of U.S. jobs to developing nations, big corporations have been playing another destructive game, pitting states within the U.S. against one another to reduce the cost of labor. So far, two-thirds of the states either have introduced incentive programs or expanded programs already on the books over the last two years. These deals often are outright scams.
Firms cajole, then threaten to leave states when they never have any intention of moving.
As more has been learned about the terms of such incentives and their economic effects, the seeds of political revolt have taken root among unions, citizens' groups, and state and local officials, creating an alliance that binds unionists with Libertarians and liberals like former Illinois governor Jim Edgar and members of the Fed. At the center of this network is Greg LeRoy, director of Good Jobs First, a national clearinghouse on job subsidies. After a survey, Minnesota set up new reporting requirements in an effort to ferret out just how much money was being lost in corporate subsidies. The findings spurred the creation of a new political coalition of gay, environmental, women's, and community-activist groups called the Dirigo Alliance, which became the force behind five bills in the state legislature. It was McNulty who last year produced evidence that the FBI used explosives on the Branch Davidian compound, and his film shows what looks like troops maneuvering in attack formation behind a tank at the site.