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Kevin, Well yes Kevin, we sold arms to Saddam. When you're trying to keep a guy on your side you give him incentives. Unfortunately Saddam knows how to play that game and how to play both sides of the game for his own benefit. The new reality is that if the Russians don't play, we don't have to either. It seems the mandate of the people dictates a more domestic agenda while downsizing our foreign policy concerns. One thing that bothers me about the new administration is the desire to tax foreign corporations just at the time we are making inroads in selling Japan our computers. We no doubt would get taxed in return, which would kill the inroads made. If we are lucky, Clinton will abandon this campaign promise too as he has done on everything else promised. Politics as usual in America, nothing really changes. All these superich entertainers who voted for Clinton and who made a killing under Reagan now feel sorry for the homeless–but their taxes won't go up. The guy who has to commute to work will probably pay 15 to 50 cents a gallon of gas in taxes to bail out the country. It just makes me sick that they can spend 30 million dollars for parties to celebrate the new president, while in Washington, the homeless were still out in the cold. What really ticked me off is all the furs that were being worn by all the democratic pols' wives. Talk about a bunch of hypocrites. I'm really sick of the bs in both parties and I didn't like the billionaire guy either. I think we'll need a constitutional convention called by the states to dismantle the federal government as it's now structured. The objective would be to cap federal spending, cap federal salaries and terms, forbid lobbying, pay off the national debt, and return most revenue back to the states as revenue sharing to rebuild the infrastructure. All these mayors that supported Clinton hoping to get public dollars were kidding themselves. Where the heck is the federal government [More…]