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Re: Finally--a use of public funding that I can really get behind!
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Wed, 20 Aug 2003 19:32:55 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Bruce Schlickbernd wrote:
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Too bad Bush added the line, “...Against any threat, real, imagined, or
constructed out of thin air.” :-)
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But what doesn’t the guy misquote, eh? :)
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The majority of voters in the DC area are black - whether or not they are
bureasucrats and government employees I couldn’t say, but since even those
need goods and services, I tend to doubt it.
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I’m not sure about voters, but the population is 63% white, 26% black (higher
than national average), 5% Asian, and 6% Hispanic
(http://www.cityrating.com/citystats.asp?city=Washington&state=DC). I don’t
know how to go about calculating the areas of Virginia and Maryland surrounding,
but it’s probably safe to say that the Federal Government and supporting
businesses are the largest employers. I think they voted about 90% for Gore in
2000, but I’m too lazy to look it up for sure.
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I don’t have a problem with you not wearing a seat belt as long as you
foreswear any public assistance whatsoever if you get into an accident, your
fault or not, and the foreswearance of all those in the car with you (even if
you aren’t driving, you can hurtle into another passenger or be ejected from
the car into someone else). I should note that authorities may still not be
satisfied, figuring that you are still endangering others, regardless of
financial liablity.
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That used to be called taking responsibility... there I go, pining for an
idealized past again.
I also fully support insurance companies having different rates for seat belt
wearers and non-wearers.
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We created one monster by our arrogance and then had to create another to
counter the first when it went out of control (the second then promptyly went
out of control, also). Trying to build up flakes like the Shah or Hussein in
command was a mistake.
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And THAT is why I don’t believe in T. Roosevelt’s expansionist philosophy, and
would prefer to see a policy of non-interventionism, if not isolationism! Or at
least taking care of things at home first... It just seems like a never-ending
cycle of US intervention to help one petty dictator against another and then
have to deal with the one we helped when he gets too big for his britches.
As an ironic sidenote, at one point during the Iran-Iraq war Iran was flying
F-14 Tomcats sold by the US against Iraqi troops supported by Bell gunships, you
guessed it, sold by the US.
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Inasmuch as I doubt Gore would have dragged us into an extremely
ill-considered war with Iraq, let me politely note that lucky stars don’t
seem to exist. Should I mention Enron going out of control? :-)
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No, Gore would have bored Hussein into submission, with minimal casualties!
Best regards,
Carl
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