[extropy-chat] Aw Nuts! Bush Wins...

[Patrick Wilken]

On 3 Nov 2004, at 17:31, Mike Lorrey wrote:
> --- Patrick Wilken <Patrick.Wilken at Nat.Uni-Magdeburg.DE> wrote:
>> What do you think the lasting positive legacy of Bush's presidency is
>> going to be?
>
> Seeing as Bush's tax cuts were engineered by Grover Norquist, who has a
> libertarian history, I have begun to suspect that there is a group of
> individuals in the Bush camp which would be entirely happy with the
> entire collapse of the US federal system, if it does not willingly
> subject itself to a major downsizing, perhaps individuals who want to
> bring about the sort of monetary collapse that Neal Stephenson
> predicted as the prelude to the setting of his novel Snow Crash.

So you think that Bush's lasting legacy is going to be that he is 
essentially going to bankrupt America and by so doing lead to a 
Libertarian revolution?

best, patrick