Newsgroups: bit.listserv.politics
Date:         Tue, 28 Jul 1992 08:55:08 EDT
From:         Evelyn Duncan <R3EJD@AKRONVM.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: The DuncanN/HoffmaN 14 Point Program (will adapt on the basis
              of input!)

On Tue, 28 Jul 1992 01:21:00 CST Ghost of Abbie said:
>
>1) Everybody ought to be able to have a job, work a 28 hour week,
>have some bennies, and a say-so about what it is they do on they
>job.

I agree about the rights to a job, but I do not agree about the bennies.
Everyone's too wired as it is now.

>
>2) Shoes, a place to live, and being able to see a doctor ought to
>be reachable.

Agreed.

>
>3) THe IRS needs to be abolished. The whole tax thing needs
>redoing, preferably by a four-to-six plan national referendum
>preceded by a few months of national discussion.

Agreed.

>
>4) Help anyone go to school or learn to read by whatever means!
>

Agreed.  I believe that everyone should have the right to learn.

>5) Make day care a legislated part of the work process so that more
>can work, or sub-contract at a fair scale work people can do at
>home (thereby helping to restore family values by having home so
>integral to one's external life).

Agreed.

>
>6) Mandate "mental health days" as part of a work bennies package,
>equalling the number of days of vacation, and increase the size of
>vacation to 20 working days a year.

I agree on the "Mental Health Days," but meditation should replace the
bennies.  Zen out, you guys.

>
>7) Work towards reducing the role of the car and plane, and rebuild
>the nation's train system, with three east-west bullet trains, and
>five north-south, thereby saving fuel, creating jobs, creating a
>workable, viable, to-the-door transport system.

Agreed on reducing the role of the car with mass transit, more trains,
and more ships.  But, I like planes.

>
>8) Get a personal computer/answering machine/phone in every
>household, or as many as would like have same, in a decade.

Agreed.
>
>9) Institute the V. M. Smith limitation-of-office idea proposed in
>1991, 24 and out, no campaign funds when you go!

Agreed.

>
>10) Help those Russians every way possible. Valentine, who I
>propose as the senior advisor on the CIS in the DuncaN/HoffmaN
>term, suggests total co-option - thereby creating the second
>largest market place, a great place to vacation, and a great place
>to go make a lot of money with Russian help and sharing.

Agreed.

>
>11) Create a Department of Fun, or Merriment, with just the Humor
>Laureate of the Year out there lightening the more deadly moments.

Agreed.  Dana Carvey as the Humor Czar.
>
>12) Drop all the weapons systems that cost over $20 billion, create
>the mobile international strike force concept, with folks trained
>to different types of problems. Declare everyone a non-enemy unless
>they do something from the first day of our term onward.

Agreed.

>
>13) Cut ALL foreign aid to everybody! Trade out aid - manganese for
>dollars, oil for diamonds, whatever - but no money giveaways.

Except for food and medicine:  we can't afford to refuse to give those.
>
>14) Develop a way to get the 65+ crowd to have "a second life" if
>they want it - an opportunity to do what they always wanted to do,
>but had to ... (fill in the blank).

Agreed.

>We have ideas, we're looking towards our future, vote for
>DuncaN/HoffmaN!
>
Hooray!

Evelyn Duncan
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