Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] FAA news

["Vern Green" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Well Mike, it is pretty hard to blame the failure of a 50 year old bridge on the policies of the last person in office. That goes with the presidency as well. Can the 2001 attack even be blamed on Bush at all? Sure the liberals will do so, but I still maintain that 9 months in office could be argued to be not enough time to even forumate a plan to protect us that would have passed muster of the American people.

 

What regulations did Clinton put into place to protect us from the .com bubble burst. What regulations did he put into place during his tenure to fund highways and bridges in your state?

 

The poit is that everyone is happy when they are making money, whether that is investing in savings and loans, .com industries are investing in bad mortgages, but we get our panties all wadded up when something bad goes on and we want to lash out to whoever is in charge at that moment.

 

Interesting case in point was Jerry Davis here in California. He was governor here and was recalled in part because of his handling of the energy crisis out here. In retrospect it was not entirely his fault, but he took the blunt of the criticism and was recalled.

On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 9:02 PM, Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:

On Thu, 3 Apr 2008, Vern Green wrote:

Rep. James Oberstar, D-Minnesota
Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Oregon
Rep. Jerry Costello, D-Illinois

Don't Republicans want to protect us from reckless corporations? Maybe not -- and I really mean that.

Don't be ridiculous. There are 283 other democrats in the House of Representatives and the Senate, would you also say that they do not care to protect us since they are not on this list?

The list might be all Democrats because they are the majority party, but the problems with Republicans run much deeper.  You should see what the NTSB (led by Republican appointee) is doing to cover up the mistakes that led to the bridge collapse up here.  Did you know that NTSB announced confidently on January 15 that the collapse was completely unique and due to a very strange design flaw that would not be found elsewhere?  Did you know that a bridge in St. Cloud -- just 75 miles away from the other bridge -- was shut down (permanently) a couple of weeks ago because of exactly the same problem?  Did you know that we have a Republican governor who refused to fund bridge repairs?  We have the Republican convention here in a few months and NTSB will be sure not to finish their report (which might end up being fine) until after the election is over, not just the primary.  What's taking them so long?  It's politically convenient. The NTSB leadership (Mark Rosenker, specifically) is purely political and they don't care about us.

For a few years now the Republican thing has been to promise to protect us from terrorism.  But protect us from corporations?  No.  They have only worked to reduce protective regulations of all kinds.  Can you name one thing that Republicans have led that would protect us from corporations that would pollute our water or air, for example?  Or protect us from any other harmful thing that a corporation might do?  I don't think so.

Have they even protected us against terrorist attacks?  Certainly not abroad.  In this country?  Well, it's hard to say because such attacks have always occurred very infrequently.  If we look at attacks by Islamists, we have the 1993 attack, then the 2001 attack, so I guess we could say that we are due for another Islamic terrorist attack on US soil in 2009 and that no attacks were expected in the past 7 years.  So maybe the net effect of Republican governance was to do nothing on the home front, to increase terrorism abroad, and to waste hundreds of billions or trillions of dollars on a useless war that has led to nothing good.

Mike

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