Bush's ideological facade hides political goal

Alameda Times-Star ^ | June 15, 2003 - 5:06:22 PM PST | Neal Gabler

[Mortimer Snavely]

'The "writer" and others like him have been putting out the sort of smokescreen...'

"There is an old story that is applicable here. Two partners who owned a grocery store bought ten thousand cans of fish at an exceptionally low price. When the fish was delivered, they made a comparison between what they had bought and what their competition was selling. Upon opening a can of their competitor's product, they found the fish was a fresh pink color and tasted good. When they opened cans of their product, they found the fish had deteriorated to a white mush and didn't taste fresh. The question became how to sell their shipment of crummy fish to their customers. They re-labeled the cans "Special High Quality Fish—Guaranteed not to turn pink in the can!" Then they raised the price and they stuck the customers with it. "

Bush's conservatism is absolutely, positively, irrefutably, with no question whatsoever, guaranteed not to turn pink in the can.

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"Foreign aid is little more than us exporting our inflation."

This sounds like one of Ché Guevara's criticisms of AID.

Go ahead, Luis, keep repeating to yourself, over and over again, "Bush is a conservative President. Bush is a conservative President. Bush is a conservative President. Bush is a conservative President. Bush is a conservative President."

If one has enough faith, saying the same thing over and over will, in a magical, mystical way, make it come true.

I think that you would have been inordinately fond of Huey Long or the Perons. The arguments in their support are essentially the same as the ones you make.

[Mortimer Snavely]

Thanks for the link.

[Mortimer Snavely]

The cult of personality is a transcendent phenomenon. In some form, it infects all political, social, and ideological cultures and sub-cultures.

[autoresponder]

. . . And why do the DNC/NPR types all have those strange upper vocal range voices?

[autoresponder]

- In JFK's day the Commie hid within the Democrat party; now *they proudly proclaim themselves "Progressives" (but scream when called "Liberals"!)

* Katrina VanderHovell,
- head Coomie, "The Nation" mag.

[Luis Gonzalez]

"This sounds like one of Ché Guevara's criticisms of AID."

Why don't you educate yourself on the nature of our "flexible" currency system, and how we avoid catastrophic inflation in spite the fact that we continue to print paper without backing and come back to me to finish off your education.

Before you go throwing in names like Che Guevara for the sake of the implied connotation, why don't you mount an intelligent argument instead.

Ask yourself a question (write it down and read it to yourself if it's easier that way)...what happened to the value of your money when the Fed printed all those new $20, $50, and $100 dollar bills sometime ago and just threw them into the system?

They increased the amount of curency out here, decreased the value of your dollar.

Now they send currency out of the country in the name of "foreign aid" and lower the amount of currency in our home market, thus avoiding the inflation the excess currency would have eventually caused.

Understanding how things work, and acknowledging that understanding does not carry with it any implication of either support, or condemnation...however, the first step top solving a problem is in understanding the nature of the problem, and the root causes. I am not interested in idiotic ramblimgs about how political ideology should work in a vacuum, I concern myself with how politics are conducted in the real world.

I understand your position...it's easier to bitch about what's going on, than to actually try and do something about what's going on.

What's truly hysterical here, is the idea that a couple of internet keyboard jockeys with no real knowledge of anything that's going on, outside that which they read in the newspapers, have the unbelievable arrogance of claiming they know how to get things done better than the man in the White House.

[Mortimer Snavely]

"Before you go throwing in names like Che Guevara for the sake of the implied connotation..."

I am trying to point out how Marxist thought has become mainstream and is considered by some to be conservativism.

Exporting inflation is not, ultimately, a good thing. The problem of fiat money is well discussed here:

Alan Greenspan's Gold and Economic Freedom

[Zack Nguyen]

Similarly, the president's huge tax cuts have been touted both as an economic stimulus and a way to shrink the federal government by denying it future revenues.

This is simply not the case. Bush's tax cuts were far less than Kennedy's, and are dwarfed by Reagan's. And Bush is not cutting spending - on the contrary, it is increasing rapidly.

The left knows that Rove and company aren't keen on debating issues, negotiating, compromising and horse-trading, the usual means of getting things done politically.

Again, I disagree. Bush compromises constantly. It is his way. Often he gets what he wants, but often he compromises himself into a corner, ala education and campaign reform.

[Luis Gonzalez]

Your inability to understand that I am simply stating what IS, is amazing.

I discussed the evils of fiat money at lenght on Radio FreeRepublic during my two hour interview of G. Edward Griffin.

[Mortimer Snavely]

I'd've liked to have heard it. Do you have a link?

[Luis Gonzalez]

I think agitator erased some of the older files from the Radio FR archives, I interviewed G. Edward Griffin close to two years ago (great interview by the way), I have the file stored in my hard drive.