[extropy-chat] Extropian Scorecard

[Patrick Wilken]

On 4 Nov 2004, at 19:15, natashavita at earthlink.net wrote:
> I am a non-party voter, and at the moment, I do not have much to say on
> this.  But to answer your questino, I suppose one way of looking at it 
> is
> that President Bush would be more aggressive toward protecting the 
> U.S. and
> its citizens against terrorism.

But surely its obvious that's he's failed? The whole situation is Iraq 
is in a terrible state don't you agree? Don't you think that the 
invasion of a country that had neither any involvement in 9/11 OR had 
any weapons of mass destruction (i.e., had neither attacked the US or 
the means to do so) has simply lead to date to +1100 US deaths, 10x US 
causalities, 100x Iraq deaths, 1000x Iraqi casualties and much less 
safety for America.

In no way has Bush protected America. So how is this possibly Extropian?

>  He also says he wants to reform taxation.

If he was cutting spending perhaps this would be true. But I recently 
read that the US today has $100 billion less revenue and $400 billion 
more expenditure than when Bush took on office. Tax reform without 
limiting spending is just stupid.

So I am still no closer to finding out why anyone calling themselves 
and Extropian would vote for Bush.

best, patrick