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Signs of National Health

11.15.02 @ 12:01AM

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Let the 'RATS choose this issue. 2004 will still be the Republicans' to lose.
-- Andrew J. Macfadyen, M.D.
San Antonio, TX

I hope the Democrat Party promotes Universal health care once again. It was proven as an unworkable system 7 or 8 years ago (in Oregon this year) and the fact that socialism fails every time it is tried, shows me what the Democrat Party wants to do. Mr. Henry may be assuming things are different from the last time, but I would counter that the American electorate is much different now. Liberals lost huge in '94 and they would lose bigger this time. Socialism doesn't play well in this country. Freedom and security are the issues of the day. Nice try by the socialist, Lawrence Henry.
-- Mike Hollaway

GLOBAL ENERGIES
Re: Patrick J. Michaels A Hotter and Greener Gore:

I agree with Mr. Michaels that the green/global warming issue will be in the campaign in 2004 for various reasons. (1) The administration will make significant strides on both the security and economic fronts. (2) Softer issues will prevail as America continues to age. Republicans can turn this issue to their advantage once and for all. Make energy a security/economic issue. If the Middle Eastern nations see a reduction in their overall wealth they will become increasingly insignificant to the rest of the world and their ability to fund terror will decline.

We should make the case to the American public that an overall plan for homeland security requires abundant and relatively cheap energy. This plan should have short term and long term goals. In exchange for opening the Alaska oil fields we will start a "NASA" type crash development program to develop alternative energy sources. We will fund this with a national per barrel tax on oil per that will go toward development of alternative energy sources and a economic based conservation campaign that strikes on multiple fronts.

1) Tax credits for economical cars.
2) State grants for renewable energy sources.
3) Legislation to reduce litigation on pebble bed reactors.
4) Tax credits for converting vehicles to electric/gas or natural gas.
5) Legislation to reduce lawsuits on siting of alternative energy sources (think of windmills off the coast of California).
6) Tax credits for home fuel cell installation and operation.
7) Tax credits to transportation companies (to spare truckers, air and rail from the tax burden).
8) Research grants.

This approach gets around the stupid argument that if there is global warming, man's activity is the cause of it.

By having a Republican administration co-opt this issue, it will leave the Al Gores of the world with little to campaign on except hanging chads.
-- Jerry McLaughlin

STILL HUGE
Re: Wlady Pleszczynski's Hugo Chavez Is Huge:

Dear Mr. Pleszczynski:

I am a Venezuelan citizen, and I have read with great interest your posting, last April 19 on The Free Republic, about the Venezuelan situation.

I am relieved that the misinformation campaign set-up by the Chavez regime, cannot "fool everybody, all the time," like Pres. Abraham Lincoln said.

In fact, the Venezuelan people (especially the poorer slice of society), is a VICTIM of Chavez's regime, and NOT Chavez the victim of obscure-aimed plotters.

The Chavez's regime is NOT a democracy. The only democratic form here, is that he was democratically elected, but his actions in power, are very much arbitrary and un-democratic.

From a hijacked judiciary power (including the Supreme Court), to tax-funded paramilitary groups (the infamous "Bolivarian circles"), to widespread corruption, mismanagement and ties to international terrorist organizations, to threats to journalists and the media, this regime is going to destroy what is left of Venezuelan institutions.

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