🚀 go-pugleaf

With a budget surplus such as stated, the government could give every man
woman and child in the Us a million dollars each and have money left over. 
No more worries about welfare, crime, politics or intimidation.  Let's hear
it.

Andy Walton wrote:
> 
> In article <6v9hb1$hfb$1@news-1.news.gte.net>, vtailor@gte.net () wrote:
> 
>   :Which is why I sat bolt-upright an hour ago when it dawned on me,
>   :once again, that this budget surplus of ours is amazingly convenient.
> 
> The Clinton/Lewinsky scandal has been in the headlines for seven months.
> Though it may be difficult to believe, there are some government employees
> who go on doing their jobs rather than poring over the Starr report and
> associated documents. I don't see the fact that the government reported
> its figures while the scandal raged -- it was inevitable.
> 
> While this scandal has raged, I've gon on with my job, as I suspect most
> people reading this have. So have most government employees. The chief
> exceptions are at either end of Pennsylvania Avenue -- while Congress and
> the White House are obsessed with the fruits of Starr's labor, the
> government is currently running without a budget.
> 
>   :The U. S. embassy bombings in Africa, WHICH CLINTON
>   :COULD HAVE PREVENTED, are the most glaring example of this,
> 
> Congress could have prevented it, too, by allocating the funds to beef up
> embassy security. The world is an unpredictable place, and it's a bit of a
> stretch to blame government officials for failing to predict the future.
> Reagan didn't see the barracks bombing in Beiruit coming, and Bush didn't
> see the invasion of Kuwait in the tea leaves.
> 
> A lot of things happen in the world, and some of them will happen at times
> that seem "convenient" for someone. When the scandals drag on for years,
> dozens of unrelated events will grab headlines.
> 
> The world does not stop when the President is under investigation.
> Watergate didn't stop the Arab states from attacking Israel, and it didn't
> stop Nixon (or Kissinger) from handling the crisis, despite the cries like
> the ones we hear now (although the phrase "wag the dog" hadn't been coined
> yet). I seriously doubt that there is any causal connection between Judge
> Starr's investigation and SwissAir 111, Hurricane Georges, or the deaths
> of Gene Autry and Roddy McDowell. Things happen. No scandal changes that.
> --
>   "The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind."
>                                                    -- Humphrey Bogart
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> Andy Walton * atticus@mindspring.com * http://atticus.home.mindspring.com/

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