Dave Hinz wrote in news:37k8psF5gscjvU8
@individual.net:

On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 21:02:11 GMT, Ned wrote:
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 11:19:34 -0800, Larry Blanchard
wrote:

That pretty much describes my position as well. Thanks, Nate.

I'm afraid Bush is now working up to an excuse for invading Iran and
Syria.

Our President is on a Crusade. His first agenda, to invade Afghan,

Do you think that, after 9/11, he should have not have invaded
Afghanistan?

Retaliating against an attack on our country, and eliminating the
government that provided sanctuary for our attackers is one thing.

Going off on a preemptive war based on "bad intelligence" against a
country that was not involved in the attack is a totally separate thing.


We should ask, are we really better off before Bush took office in
2001?

I am.

By any measurable statistic, most people in the US are not.


The US dollar continues to falls and more than 80% of the rest
of the World looks at us with negative feeling.

Eh... (a) so what, (b) us as individuals, or our government, and
(c) see (a).

You seem to be convinced that neither the stability of our currency nor
the respect of our country in the world is important. Most people would
probably disagree with you on one or both counts.


Our debts continue to
climb with imports mounting and exports falling.

Do you ever buy foreign goods, Ned?

What's your point?


Bush continues to
spins that our Social Security will go bankrupt and so forth.

Anyone who doesn't think there is a social security problem is
delusional. Whoever takes the problem on is going to be in for
a ****-storm; the Dems just prefer to let someone else do what has
to be done.

Bush is the only guy I've ever seen that can do endlessly stupid things
and still be considered a heroic man of virtue to his followers.

We have lots of problems, of which social security is neither the most
severe or the most pressing.