From: an030@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Broward Horne)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc,alt.activism,alt.conspiracy,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh
Subject: Re: Privatization
Date: 23 Jan 1993 23:53:36 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: an030@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Broward Horne)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


In a previous article, an030@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Broward Horne) says:

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>In a previous article, thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank) says:
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>>Well, you go uruguay, I'll go mine.  Say hello to Sendero Luminoso if 
>>you pass through Peru.  
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>        Hmmm, no, I've already ruled out Peru, Brazil, Ecuador, and
>     Brazil.  Chile, eh, I don't know.  I have a friend visiting ther
>     soon, but I'm not inclined.


         Here, Ted, follow me on this one:

    I) Empirical data

     #1 - Depressions at regular intervals are historical fact

     #2 - Past governments have laid claim to having "smoothed out"
          the busness cycle, much like our current government

     #3 - Past governments have been wrong 


   So.  Based on empirical data, not only are we DUE for a depression,
   it's likely that the government is wrong about being able to 
   prevent it.

      My Own Theory - depressions are a re-integration of cultural
      beliefs with reality.  Therefore, under *my* theory, not only
      is a prevention of depression unlikely, it is *undesirable*.

    II)  Multiculturalism -


       Let us suppose that any of several cohesive cultures could 
       exist and respond to reality.

       My Next Theory - the presence of several, competing and 
       conflicting cultural "realities" is A Bad Thing.

    Now, what do these two theories add up to?

    A movement towards a re-orientation of reality, based on ONE
    dominant culture.  Personally, I think we're seeing the 
    begginings already, expressed as "Politically Correct" thinking.

    It's become painfully obvious to me that large numbers of the 
    American people are disconnected from reality now.  Here, some
    recent poll numbers from my memory -

        % expecting the deficit to be halved -   65%
        % expecting national health care -       80%
        % expecting continued U.S. military intervention - 60%

    Now, I ask YOU, do these numbers show a people who are grounded 
    in reality?

    Does a $4 trillion debt show an understanding of reality?

    
    Therefore, I would suggest to y'all that there is at least a 
     fairly good chance that you are wrong about the "deficit not
     mattering".  A chance.

     And, that there is a chance that events from 1914 through 1945
     were not guided by *unique* conditions.

      And that there is a fairly good chance that we shall see the
     liberal equivalent of McCarthyism or Facism, within a short
     while.  Perhaps within the next 4 years.

     So, given these odds, it certainly would behoove me ( and others )
     to plan ahead.

     You're certainly free to fun on me.  I remember my co-workers in
     California funning on me in 1989, because, after all, California
     is a "recession-proof" state. 


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>        Perhaps Mexico.  Might as well be where the jobs are going.
>>-- 
>>ted frank                     | thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu 
>>standard disclaimers          | void where prohibited
>>the university of chicago law school, chicago, illinois 60637
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