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).…
#196013-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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#196011-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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#196005-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…
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#195994-Tax Cut Madness
Message #197020
DJ> You make the claim that Congress was responsible for the economics of the 1980s. No I don't. I made the claim that congress was responsible for the deficits of the 1980s, not the economics.
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#196978-National Health Care
Message #197019
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.…
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#196989-National Health Care
Message #197018
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…
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#196476-Election Next Year
Message #197017
Re: I never noticed supermarkets turning away poor people> Mark, I guess you never noticed hospitals turning away poor people either.
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#196984-AIDS Magic
Message #197016
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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#196553-Lesbians and HIV/AIDS
Message #197015
Warren: I heard something about the CDC "proposing" to change the definition, but nothing concrete since then. I'm making a list of questions to ask my friend this weekend. Bernie
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#196600-Drugs
Message #197014
Mal: OK – you've hit on one of my weak points. I'll admit, I'm a lousy consumre . When I look at the deodorant aisle, I look for the one I want, and ignore all the rest. I'll make it a point to look. Your scientific method is good in…
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#196768-Offensive Commercial
Message #197013
Jim and Bob: Just remember who The Diamond Council is. It's DeBeers, the most exploitative private employer in South Africa. 'nuff said. Bernie
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#196516-Offensive Commercial
Message #197011
Tom: Well, at least you looked propsperous . Actually, the jewelery ads that are aimed at women tend to be for large chunks of gold decorated with large hunks of various colored rock . While these may cost as much as an "engagement" ring, women will buy them for themselves.…
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#196831-Offensive Commercial
Message #197010
Jim: I think you've touched on an important point about the way "the sexes" treat each other by trivializing each other's problems and concerns. Prof. Hill was treated miserably by those SOBs. I ask: If the races were reversed, i.e., if a white woman was being treated that rudely by…
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#196688-Offensive Commercial
Message #197009
DJ – Fortunately, since she started seeing an older man, she's developing some taste . Bernie
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#196824-Offensive Commercial
Message #197008
Russ: That's too bad about the magazines. Perhaps they moved the car mags to another part of the store. If so, you could use some urban guerilla tactics. Pick up one of each of the "men's" mags from their new place, and read them while waiting on line. When you…
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#196667-"Civilize" Men?
Message #197007
DJ – Sometimes, we can get so busy "transmitting" that we don't "receive" the messages from the other person. Bernie
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#196599-"Civilize" Men?
Message #197006
Mal: You admit to having bootleg vinyl of a band that's still alive and kicking? You're brave . Bernie
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#196681-"Civilize" Men?
Message #197005
Dinner? Sounds good. Of course, we'll have to find some guy to pay for it Bernie
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#196432-Animal rights
Message #197004
I'm afraid it'll be a long while before I could top my McLauglin Group parody. I used to do a pretty good impression of David Brinkley, and I'll do it after we return, … in a moment. Actually, I can do a vocal imression of Brinkley, and of Walter Cronkite,…
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#195568-Rush's Rongs
Message #197003
On the car analogy — someone tried again today (11/19) — just to take it to its extreme … I think most people do want to go for a test drive before taking it home for keeps. Also, I think most people do take a long look when a Lamborgini…
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#195872-Rush TV show!
Message #197002
I agree, hope he will use the program to focus attention on the Border situation, Texas is becoming a mess. Bill
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It's that time!
Message #197001
It may be that my original message went off in the great CIS beyond, so again, Happy Birthday. I hope that the soul Pop gave you this year does well. –Dave
#196280-Snapple Availability
Message #197000
I just tried a Snapple Root Beer. What makes it different from traditional root beers is that the Snapple version is _clear_. No color at all. As clear as pure water. But it tastes like Root Beer should!
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Doomsday Special
Message #196999
CNN's "Doomsday Government" special report, which Bob has mentioned several times adn in which others have expressed an interest, will be repeated tonight at 10 p.m. Eastern time, according to a promo I just saw on CNN. Terry
#196820-Carter & Act of War
Message #196998
Jack, Your going to have be a little clearer Jack. What point are you trying to make? That hostages remained imprisoned and their numbers increased while Reagan was in power since they could buy guns from Reagan with hostages? Brion PS Why does the unnamed author call the Reagan years…
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#195991-Libertarianism Defined?
Message #196997
Stephen, By destroying democratic gov't, you make it less attractive for those who "try" to subvert it….but by no means are they always successful. You also destroy the right of people to protect themselves and organize themselves for selfprotection. And, of course, you set up the ideal conditions for the…
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#195931-Libertarianism Defined?
Message #196996
Gerald, As to examples of why I think that Libertarians are into tyranny and oppression. Just hang around and read some of their messages. Some of the most telling 'evidence' is the spasmodic denunciations of political democracy that many of them engage in. This includes ranting about the 'evil' of…
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#196399-Libertarianism Defined?
Message #196995
Ian, Once again you've escaped reality entirely. First, there is a fundamental difference in the business of 'roads' vs the business of 'hot dog stands'. The fact that you can price yourself out of the hot dog business even if you own the only stand in no way is an…
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#196017-DUKE WINS!!!! WHAT NEXT?
Message #196994
Stephen, "DuKKKe"…..I like it ! Regards, Dave
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#196275-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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#196274-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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#195908-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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#195907-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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#196373-#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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#196465-Hat Trick
Message #196988
Ah the cool crisp mourning air, and as the dawn breaks across these city streets I can hear the cries of the rumormongers selling their wares: "Ruuuuumm-ahhhs, Ruuuuumm-ahhhs, getcha hot juicy rumors here. Ruuuuumm-ahhhs, Ruuuummm-ahhhs, three for a quarter!" Frank
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#196918-Success
Message #196987
Well, let me sit down and rest a bit then maybe I'll be able to tell you, I'm just not up to all this flurry of action, and I've already had to answer one message today. You know, back when I was young we used to have to walk twenty…
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#196917-Success
Message #196986
Ah, Urbie the prankster – Urbster. I have gone so wrong by going right that I am left of everything now. BTW, I think it's time to start the argument we discuessed under the garlic fumes: PCs stink MACs are great, so there. Care to top that volly into an…
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#196871-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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#196911-#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…
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#196970-Women's chests
Message #196983
Thanks for breaking the trend you identified. BTW, I presume you were saying that this particular thread previously had only male participants, not that the entire section 5 was male-only? That would be only a probabilistic fluke, but a noteable one nevertheless. Aside from your personal experience, do you have…
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#196929-Election Next Year
Message #196982
How _much_ of "a better chance at winding up dead", Mark? What's the difference in survival rates? If things are so much worse there, why is it that 99% of the people waiting for heart surgery in Vancouver a year or so ago turned down the chance to have it…
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#196431-The New Serfs!!!!
Message #196981
I like it! There's an interesting idea for political reform: give politicians an option to commit themselves to promises, and force the politician to stand for reelection if he breaks such a commitment (I would not automatically toss him out; the people might decide not to hold him to that…
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#196729-A QUESTION FOR DUKE
Message #196980
Were the departing fathers also stepping out on gainful employment? The emotions experienced by these men at not having jobs with which they could support a family probably played a greater role in their decision to leave than a calculation of increased welfare for the remaining spouse. To the extent…
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#196915-Madonna/Eve
Message #196979
Julia, Greets! Your name seems familiar, but I cannot recall if we've met, but it's nice to hear from you. I feel that most people feel a sense of privacy about their space and that an invasion of it is an assault. These are strange times, indeed, and it's prudent…
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