Newsgroups: alt.politics.bush,talk.politics.misc,alt.politics.clinton,alt.politics.elections
Subject: Re: Better Off Than Four Years Ago NOT
From: koumis@husc4.harvard.edu (Anthony Koumis)
Date: 21 Aug 92 14:01:38 EDT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Harvard University Science Center

In article <1992Aug20.205954.6555@aio.jsc.nasa.gov> cessna@kn5f.jsc.nasa.gov (Mark Taylor Evert) writes:
>In article <1992Aug20.173307.25429@aero.org> foy@aero.org (Richard Foy) 
>writes:
>> Barbara Bush asked "Are you better off now than you were 4 years ago?"
>> She weasled out of that question by talking about changes in XUSSR.
>
>Labor Secratary Lynn Martin asked that question, not Barbara Bush.
>
>> I am planning a foreign vacation. It will now cost me a substantially
>> larger per centage of my income than it would have 4 years ago.
>
>But I guarentee the airfair will be cheaper than 12 years ago if you 
>adjust for inflation due to deregulation under Reagan..
>
Foreign vacations are more than just flying there.  You have to
spend money there.  Our dear currency aint to hot in many
places.  For ex. it takes $1.93 to buy a pound!!




>> I eat out a lot. It costs me a substantially larger percentage of my 
>income
>> than it did 4 years ago.
>
>Better restaurants?  Seriously.
>
>> I drive around LA a lot. It takes a substantially larger percentage of my
>> time than it did 4 years ago. I read the news. In spite of the Willie
>> Hornton ad there is a substantially greater amount of crime in it than
>> there was 4 years ago.
>
>I drive around Houston a lot.  It takes less time than 4 years ago.  We 
>elected a tough new mayor this year who gave new life and support to our 
>police department.  Crime in Houston is down 37%.  The point is that you 
>will have much better luck combatting it on the local level than depending 
>on the feds.   BTW, George Bush's crime bill, which takes a tough stance 
>against crime and has some real teeth to it has been languishing in 
>Congress for most of the 4 years.
>
>> I like to be able to relax in nature. There is substantially less clean
>> nice nature than there was 4 years ago. I don't like to worry. I spend a
>> substantially greater percentage of my time worrying about ozone holes 
>etc.
>> than I did 4 years ago.
>
>Don't blame Bush for your worry.  Blame the enviromental extremists like 
>Al Gore who don't know what they are talking about, and then quit 
>worrying.   Also remember that you don't have to worry about the Soviets 
>pushing the button in the middle of the night and obliterating the world.
>
>> I like the women that I know to have the same opportunities, freedoms and
>> choices that I have. Their choices are substantially less than they were 
>4
>> years ago. Not incidentally, the Reagan Bush Supreme Court have reduced 
>my
>> freedoms as well and will go on doing so for many more years.
>
>There are substantially more women in highly paid professional positions 
>than there were 12 years ago or 4 years ago.  My wife is one of them. Where is your proof that there are FEWER choices.  
>Name one freedom that the Reagan Bush Supreme Court has taken away from 
>you personally....
>


You must not read the papers or understand what the supremem court is
doing.  It reduces the recourse to courts of suing on one's
rights (i.e. sex, race discriminatoin) and check out those 4
justices who want to ovverrul Roe, and the reduction of the rights
under Roe.  Just because your wife as a hunky-dory job
doesnt mean it is rosy for the rest of us or the country.  Anecdotal
history like that was Ronnie's method of trying to prove how great it
was. It doesnt wash.



>> Though I lead a life style that Clayton Cramer and the Religious Right
>> would probably approve of at least as far as sex and drugs are concerned,
>> I am substantially more at risk of aids than I was 4 years ago.
>
>Can you blame this on the President?  Do you think that 4 years of Clinton 
>will change that?  or even 12 years?
>

Hell, Bush wont even implement the recommendations of his oen
presidential AIDs committees.  If the gov't wasnt full of
judgmental-hatemongering people we might have started AIDs awareness
faster and more efficiently.  Remember Pat Buchanan publicly stated
during his campaign that AIDs was judgment on homosexuals.  (guess
he doesnt care aobut the heterosexuals who have it or the fact that
in Africa it spread equally through hetorosexuals and homosexuals).
When I was in Britain in 1986 I was shocked at the time to find out
that the US was estimatet to be 7 years behind the UK in fighting AIDS (and many people think the UK is behind Europe). Republican religious
right is full of hate, and judgment.



>> No! I am not better off than I was 4 years ago.
>
>With that attitude, you probably won't be better off after 4 years of 
>Clinton either.
>

With your hand stuck in the sand you will never realize how terrible
Bush et al. have been for individuals and for the coutnry has a whole.
Not only does the economy stink, but he has not conception of
anything that happens outside his circle.  He condones racisms, sioexism,
using the politics of race to divide, embraces judgemnntal intolerant
religious extremists, and then claims to suposrt democracy in
the world but still finds time to toats the Butchers of Tiannemen Square
soon after.  

>Mark T. Evert
>Friendswood, TX
>
>My opinions are my own.


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