Timberman, you are getting pretty heated, you better slow down, take a deep breath and count to 10. Oop, sorry, let me help you:
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This could take a while to get to 10...

BTW, Clinton did take over an economy that was on the rebound, but it wasn't from Reaganomics. President Bush Senior gets credit for that. I find it sad that the Republicans treated him like a red-headed stepchild. President Bush made the very difficult decision of going against the Republican king-makers and raised taxes. He had the economy that was in a severe downturn due the massive federal deficits and made the decision that he knew would probably cost him the election. That was true courage which his son, and Clinton, lack.

The economy is something every outdoorsman should be worried about. We are now at record deficit spending and that is not counting on the massive tax cut and the pending war in Iraq. Already something like 20 cents out of every dollar the government spends is just for the interest on the national debt. Just think how big the interest payment will be after the war and Bush's tax cut? We will then be told the only way out is to sell the BLM and Forest Service lands.

That is not left-wing propaganda, the sagebrush rebellion in the '70's was real. In the 90's they floated the idea of transfering the lands to the state where it would be much easier to sell. I have read opinions from the far-right that state that it is against the U.S. Constitution for the United States to own more land than what the federal buildings are on. I've read the Consititution and don't see that but then I'm just a simple engineer and can only read what is on paper, and not get the the minds of the founding fathers like the lawyers with an agenda. If you hunt and fish on federal land, you should be concerned.

I should thank you, Timberman, you do prove my point; Both the democrats and the republicans want you to believe their answers are the only answers and you have to take the whole package. Something to ask yourself is whether if you believe the entire party line, be it democrate or republican. If you have difficulty finding a disagreement with your party, then maybe you have been brainwashed. Because I disagreed with Bush on the economy, you thought I was a Clinton supporter...back to that 1, not 1 counting. If you must know, I supported John McCain. After he lost, I kinda lost interest. I did make a prediction that is now true. Before the election I said that if Bush was elected we would be back in massive deficit spending in 2 years.

I have considered starting my own polictical party: The Dead Skunk Party. I want to call it that from the Rush Limbaugh line "The only thing in the middle of the road is yellow lines and dead skunks". Of course it would take away from my fishing time so I just write letters to my elected officials.