From: b645zaw@utarlg.uta.edu (General Boycott)
Subject: Re:      Re: Muerte De America
Summary:  Hey, who loves ya Broward.
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Keywords:  Here have a sucker.
Organization: The University of Texas at Arlington
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 23:43:00 GMT

In article <9212160346.AA05470@inet-gw-1.pa.dec.com>, 
GCTHORNE@idbsu.idbsu.edu ("Broward "Kervokian" Horne") writes...

>        The higher the debt, the  better your chances of getting
>   a new boss when it busts.  I'd put the U.S. in about the .7
>   range of getting a new boss soon.

Let's assume you mean after Jan 20, and furthermore that El Presidente 
Clinton is not the perfect scapegoat, <read following in your best
Mr. Bill voice>, "Well, you knew my plan didn't add up when you elected me"....

And let's also assume that people don't look into the voting records
of X-Senators like Lloyd Bentsen to see who actually authored and
voted in the $4.2 Trillion Dollar PLUS INTEREST federal debt, (using 
the Congressional Quarterly and Weekly Report, or the Congressional 
Record, or similar journals).... {It's for shure I didn't sign 'em.}

And that the constitution can't be changed, in particular Amend. XIV,
section 4:

	The validity of the public debt of the United States,
	authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment
	of pensions and bounties for services in supressing
	insurrection or rebellion, SHALL NOT BE QUESTIONED....

{Which is unconstitional being in conflict with the 1st Amendment
right to free speech.} 

Assuming all this, and that people would rather watch television
(a misnomer if ever there was one) than protest in the streets... 
{Remember the XSSR}

Then yes, I reckon we're in for a nearly bloodless coup, similar to
the Iraq War and Somalia. {Bloodless for the winners of course.}

>>borrowing. Kinda like being on drugs. At least 43 million Americans
>>believe this can continue. I'm asserting the nation has overdosed,
>>couldn't stop credit-spending if it wanted to, is running rampant like
>>a crazed-addict on PCP -- and should be put out of it's misery. 
> 
> 
>       A recent article in the WSJ showed ( what struck ME ) as
> a totally awesome increase in home mortgage loans.  Total borrowing
> has almost DOUBLED in the past TWO years.  Incredible numbers.
> 
>      Yet I keep hearing that "consumer debt" has decreased.
>      Heheheheeh.  Almost as good as "The Recovery".

But but, it's RIGHT there in my shiny new _World Almanac '93_ p. 144...

"Consumer Credit Outstanding" Source: Federal Reserve:

   '88 - $742 B,  '89 - $792 B,  '90 - $809 B,  '91 - $798 B

See a whole $11 B dollar dip.

>      HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!  As IBM blows away another 25K ( I predicted
>    20K two months ago ), GM blows away another 18K ( I predicted
>    20K two months ago ), DEC blows away 7 or 8K ( I predicted
>    25K, but the night is young ), and Boeing blows away 2.5K (
>    I didn't have the courage to make a number, just that there
>    would be "a-shootin'. :) )

< cut to scene of carney duck shoot >

"We have a winner," 
..another quarterly macro-eco-gnomic profit. 

>>"Nations" come and go, merely as a matter of politics. "Countries"
>>remain. Others will disagree with the distinctions, but I hope I've
>>communicated my point. "Give 'em line."
> 
> 
>       HOLY CHRIST!  I thought that *I* was bad.  :)

        ^^^^^^^^^^^--"Bad Broward, baddd Broward." ;^)


Item 4 of the basic Principles of Christian Anarchy sez...
(from p.12 of Vernard Eller's book _Christian Anarchy_)

	The threat of the arkys [gooberments that is]
	is not so much their existence as it is our
	granting that existence reality and weight --
	our giving ourselves to them, attaching impor-
	tance to them, putting faith in them, making
	idols of them. Revolutionists fall into this
	trap in their intention of using good arkys
	to oppose and displace the bad ones -- thus
	granting much more power and being to the arkys
	(both evil power to the bad ones and righteous
	power to the good ones) than is the truth of
	the matter.

>I've sketched an appealing alternative for myself and believers in
>the non-institutional-communities thread, and yes I recognize that it
>obviously doesn't extend to the nation, or the country at large. Though
>it may be possible for an academic community, or some other "with a
>focus greater than the nation can muster," to establish itself as an
>alternative inside the system as well.
> 
>>My material needs are meager though. I'll gladly forego whatever the
>>government offers as a bribe. If I had six kids, a mother-in-law,
>>and a wife -- no doubt I'd need a lot more material, and I'd be a
>>Democrat.
> 
> 
>    Hmmm.  I can see a trend here.  I wonder how many others there are?

Well to find that out you'll need 
to reach deep down into the niches
and don't forget to probe the hole
in the pockets of your britches. 

>>Shall I go back to poetry?
> 
> 
>         Only if you want to confound the *government* watchers.

Wellll, then, "you got caught with a flat... <ooops>
I mean:

Gather all yore courage up 
and spelunk the interstices.
That ol' goverment safety net
tain't meant to free yore wishes.

{And if you read the latin way 
 not only don't it rhyme
 but you should really tell yourself 
 "I's intellectu'l slime."
 ....and hopelessly unromantic.}

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