From: assist@orion.oac.uci.edu (ASSIST Coordination Site)
Subject: Re: Better Off Than Four Years Ago NOT
Newsgroups: alt.politics.bush,talk.politics.misc,alt.politics.clinton,alt.politics.elections
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Date: 20 Aug 92 22:42:20 GMT

In article <oneil.714340431@cwis> oneil@cwis.unomaha.edu (Sharon O'Neil) writes:
>foy@aero.org (Richard Foy) writes:
>
>>Barbara Bush asked "Are you better off now than you were 4 years ago?"
>>

>I doubt if I'm going to be able to pay tuition this fall, given that in 
>the last four years, tuition rates have gone throught the roof!  And I'm 
>currently working for someone with substantially less education than I
>have at a boring, repetitive part time job.  I can't afford insurance rates.
>
>>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.
>
>   **  Both of the above, university tuition and insurance rates, are 
        items controlled by the STATE not the federal government -- so
>       what do these have to do with the President? **

>
>>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.
>
>** I am female and my opportunities have not seemed to decrease in the last
>   4 years.  I would like to know where you see the opportunities decreasing. 
>
>Sexual harrassment against women seems to be an Olympic sport anymore.
>SIGH!  I don'te even want to talk about this one.  Grrr!
>
>** I have experienced sexual harrassment in the workplace and I have dealt
>   with it by going to the appropriate people in the company. But I do not
>   see how this can be blamed on the President

>>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.
>
>** So is everyone, but President Bush did not cause your risk to be higher. 
>   the increase of people with AIDS has caused the risk to increase.  
>
>Four years ago I didn't know anyone with AIDS.  Now I know one man who has
>died of the disease.  I also have met two other men with AIDS and a woman who
>is HIV+
>
>**I also know two people who have died of AIDS.  It is tragic and I hope
>someone comes up with a cure, but I do not believe the government is
>responsible for funding all the research for this disease.  I barely 
>survived a bought with cancer, but I am not blaming the President for
>not spending all the taxpayers money  on cancer research.  I also have
>a heart valve problem like many other people, but we are not all 
>screaming that the government needs to spend more money on this.  Many
>pharmaceutical companies and university research labs will invest their
>own money in this endeavor for the payoff and prestige which will come
>about if they can come up with the cure.  Many non-profit charitable 
>organizations also raise money for this research.  It has been that
>way for researching cures for other diseases. **  
>   
>>No! I am not better off than I was 4 years ago.
>
>Absolutely NOT!
>
>Sharon O'Neil
>oneil@cwis.unomaha.edu
>
>I have seen alot of things in the world change for the better over the 
>last four years and I have also been allowed to take home the majority 
>of my paycheck (i.e. paid less federal taxes).  And most of the problems
>and complaints I have are due to state restrictions and not federal 
>ones. I like the premise that the individual has control of his life
>and not the government, that is why I am voting for . . .

Bush/Quayle '92!

Kris
kris@fs2.assist.uci.edu

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