This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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Tax Cut Madness
Message #197028
AK> Yes, the last really big rise in unemployment did approach 10%, peaking around 9.8, as I recall. Under Reagan. Not Carter. Do you recall that the unemployment peaked right after Carter's policies were replaced by Reagan's?
Tax Cut Madness
Message #197027
AK> Under Carter, the final one-year deficit we labored under was 73.8 billion dollars. Under Reagan, that ballooned to 273 billion dollars. Those are the figures for the 1980 and 1986 single-year deficits (I don't have later years handy), not the cumulative debt. You people talk about "under Reagan" as…
Tax Cut Madness
Message #197026
EPE> You talk a good story but what is the answer? I am not in favor of giving government more control over people's lives. That isn't the question. The question is whether it is the federal government that shoves its snout into our lives, or local government. I believe the…
Tax Cut Madness
Message #197025
EPE> Surely you jest. How can anyone believe Uncle George when he said No new Taxes? I believed him. He said it long and loud and often. I believed him. EPE> I do not consider myself more intelligent than anyone else, but there was so much about Uncle George that…
Tax Cut Madness
Message #197024
SRT> The Commerce data comes from the 1990 "Statistical Abstract of the United States" (page 425), and online data available in CENDATA. SRT> The OMB data comes from the 1988 "United States Budget in Brief" (page 111) and the 1992 "Budget of the United States Government" (Part Seven, page 71).…
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Prayer
Message #197023
GH> My child's first period teacher wouldn't be a Satanist, at least not one week after I found out. SMB> Then I take it that it's OK with you if your child's first period teacher is no longer a Christian one week after a classmate's Jewish (or Moslem or Buddhist…
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Tax Cut Madness
Message #197022
AK> Oh stop it. You keep pretending that the LARGER rises in the deficit before the tax hike are less revelatory than the SMALLER rises after it. Not at all. The largest tax hike in history has produced the largest annual deficit. The new deficit is now projected by the…
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Prayer
Message #197021
GH> > VCV> Of course, your statement here defines your attitude that you are willing to accept the wording of a prayer by a group of individuals whom you heretofore rated as less than, shall we say, committed to excellence. Well there are certain prayers whose wording few people need…
Oh, now I understand. Gee Ken, sorry you hav to make so little. I guess I'm one of those guys you mentioned (certainly not the 1,000,000. I'm a doctor and I don't know anybody making that kind of money from medicine alone.), and I still say it's not a fortune.…
David, I guess my indignation got the better of me. You see, I have to see those patients in the ER when I'm on call. I have no choice in the matter. They know better than to show up at the county hospital when they can go to the uptown…
Warren, We seem to be getting closer and closer to agreement , but not quite yet. My problem with morality as a concept (not as a lifestyle!) is that it depends on who is defining it. Is traditional Polynesean (sp?) less moral than our own Puritan culture? I don't know.…
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DUKE WINS!!!! WHAT NEXT?
Message #196994
Stephen, "DuKKKe"…..I like it ! Regards, Dave
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DUKE WINS!!!! WHAT NEXT?
Message #196993
Bruce, "Trilateral and CRF" My goodness, the conspiracy theories are out and about aren't they? Would you by any chance be a member or supporter of DUKE's NAAWP? Regards, Dave
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DUKE WINS!!!! WHAT NEXT?
Message #196992
Bruce, In the case of Duke…the message and the messager are one and the same. And, most of his supporters fully understand that fact. Regards, Dave
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Pol. Cor. Dictionary
Message #196991
John, Interesting…don't you think that 'reason' is refuted by the 'reality' that Freud found in human kind…namely the fact that in any individual, irrationality can over come reason, and that an otherwise rational person can be irrational on a particular subject or in a particular circumstance? As to shaking up…
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Pol. Cor. Dictionary
Message #196990
John, "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" is a definitive history of the Nazi regime by an American journalist who saw a good deal of it. It's well in excess of 1000 pages, so a summary is not possible. However, there was an excellent TV documentary based on…
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#National Health Care
Message #196989
David, So….you are categorically stating that there were no cases within the last two years in Texas where people were turned away from hospital emergency rooms for reasons other than the capacity was exceeded? That never happens anywhere anymore? Can you be a little more specific as to the federal…
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AIDS Magic
Message #196985
Victor, I definitely didn't suggest there was a moral reason for reconsidering how much money is spent on AIDS research. What I did suggest is that as AIDS is a completely avoidable disease, we might consider the money better spent on unavoidable maladies or directed toward prenatal care, for example.…
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#AIDS Magic
Message #196984
David, you have, once again, forced me to go back and reread my previous posts on this thread and I must say I can't discover what you refer to as my "continued referral to morality and all that implies." See my reply to Erick earlier in this thread for an…
#196913-
#National Health Care
Message #196978
David, Nurses from 2 year nursing school in many cases can start at $35-40,000 per year…more than a Master's Engineering grad from MIT and more than a school teacher with a Master's degree and 20 years of experience. The doctors I know all make more than $200,000 per year. Some…
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DUKE WINS!!!! WHAT NEXT?
Message #196976
All I can say is that I'll believe in David Duke's conversion after he established a *new* record which outweighs the old neo-Nazi one. Before someone says so — no, refusing to elect him to public office is not unfairly denying him the chance to build such a record (there…
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DUKE WINS!!!! WHAT NEXT?
Message #196971
When was Robertson slandered and lied about? The more bizarre charges about him (that he had claimed that the microchips in credit cards were the biblical Mark Of The Beast) turned out to be all too well founded.
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Constitution
Message #196964
OK, I put 4-5 with the others. Thanks for the uploads.
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Vietnam – Demo's War?
Message #196963
Raymond, We did range all over Vietnam and we did attack radar and anti-aircraft sites. Brion
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Vietnam – Demo's War?
Message #196962
Jack, In regard to your comment: "Don't overestimate the Afgha terrain." I don't have to worry about *my* estimate of the Afghan terrain, it was a bear for the Russians though. It particularly limited the effectiveness of air power similar to the way the jungles of Vietnam limited US airpower.…
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Vietnam – Demo's War?
Message #196961
Jack, In regard to your theory that: "The Afghans did not defeat the Soviets — ie. THE US OF A DID" Main problem I see with that theory is that there were no US soldiers in Afghanistan. Other than that minor point, it's real interesting. In regard to your other…
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Vietnam – Demo's War?
Message #196960
Jack, In regard to your "rule" that "Air power guarantees success in war, if it's used right." Now you've got it. A incontrovertible rule, if it doesn't hold true it was misused. How about, airpower wins every war except the ones it doesn't win? That fits all the same criteria.…
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Decriminalize Drugs
Message #196953
John, what you say has some merit….but we are going to create another class of drug users added to the tobacco and alcohol ones. Believe me, as a former tobacco user for 30+ years and an occasional drinker, I've seen what these can do. As for other drugs, I was…
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Anita Hill is a Liar
Message #196952
Dave: Apology accepted. You might wish to read the articles I listed earlier on this thread for the proposition that there are a number of real Marxist/Feminists, inldcuing law professors Catherine MacKinnon, of Harvard and Leslie Bender of Syarcuse. If Anhita Hill has not become one of them she has…