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Neoplatonist Donating Member (99 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-18-04 03:25 AM
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3. I read most of these on Bartcop.com and also added a few
Edited on Fri Jun-18-04 03:27 AM by Neoplatonist
•Iran-contra scandal, 14 convictions.

•Decisions being made by Nancy's astrologer.

•HUD scandal, 16 convictions. $8 bn. in taxpayers money lost.

•S&L scandal, $1 trillion in cost to taxpayer.

•32 convictions in his administration during 8-year term.

•Record deficits and huge national debt.

•Supply side (voodoo) economics.

•Billions wasted on star wars spending, escalation of arms race, which delayed nuclear weapons reductions.

•234 Marines KIA (killed in action) in Beruit, Lebanon, bombing, 151 WIA (wounded in action)--no coherent foreign policy, exited Lebanon in disgrace.

•LBOs of $64 bn/yr destroyed many good businesses and companies.

•CIA never predicted weakness of Soviet Union and its ultimate demise, which should have been shocking considering that the then vice president, George Bush, was once the CIA Director.

•Destruction of the labor movement.

•At least 130 separate Investigations against the Defense Dept.'s largest contractors.

•Love Canal and numerous other destructions against the enviornment (due to his corrupt policies)--with little or no consequences to big companies or states or Federal government.
            

...it was always mourning in America.
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