From: breitbac@nd.edu (DAVE BREITBACH)
Subject: Re: Entreprise Zones
Organization: University of Notre Dame
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Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 21:43:53 GMT

In article <BD.92Nov21075649@fluent.UUCP> bd@fluent@dartmouth.EDU (Brice Dowaliby) writes:
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>From: bd@fluent@dartmouth.EDU (Brice Dowaliby)
>Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc,alt.rush-limbaugh,talk.rumors,alt.activism,alt.politics.elections
>Subject: Re: Entreprise Zones
>Message-ID: <BD.92Nov21075649@fluent.UUCP>
>Date: 21 Nov 92 12:56:49 GMT
>References: <BxnyFv.4nD@apollo.hp.com> <1992Nov15.064308.18510@eskimo.com> <1992Nov16.170941.19457@polari>
>Sender: bd@fluent@dartmouth.EDU (Brice Dowaliby)
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>In-Reply-To: peterd@polari.online.com's message of 16 Nov 92 17:09:41 GMT

>peterd@polari.online.com writes:

>>wix@eskimo.com (Dennis Wicks) writes:
>>
>>>In article <BxnyFv.4nD@apollo.hp.com> goykhman_a@apollo.hp.com (Alex Goykhman) writes:
>>>>In article <Bxn8ox.KKz@acsu.buffalo.edu> v140pxgt@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Daniel B Case) writes:
>>>>...
>>>>>But, as Michael Kinsley has pointed out, the whole idea of enterprise zones 
>>>>>is inherently unconservative. The government is trying to get capital to go 
>>>>>where it doesn't want to. This sounds like-industrial policy! ...
>>>>
>>>>    "Economist" called enterprise zones "the Republican version of big
>>>>    goverment waste".  I tend to agree.
>>>>
>>>Sound like a good description to me.  The people that live in the
>>>"enterprise zones" don't have the skills needed  to get many of
>>>the new jobs.  Oh, a janitor or two, and maybe some jobs on the
>>>loading dock.  But the best jobs will be taken by people
>>>commuting _in_ from the suburbs!  The people that need the jobs
>>>and the training will not benefit much, if at all.  But we
>>>will be subsidizing some very nice new facilities for a few
>>>businesses.
>>>              
>>Sounds like racism to me: the people in the 'zones'
>>don't have the skills, training or ability to handle
>>complicated tasks.   Right.

>Racism?  Gimme a break.  The guy said that people in the enterprise zones 
>didn't have the skills needed, he didn't say that they weren't
>trainable.

>Since race didn't enter into the discussion until your 
>ridiculous charge of racism, I suggest that you were out of line.

>Although blanket statements are probably a dangerous thing,
>I think it is both reasonable and accurate to say that the
>people enterprise zones are designed to help are not, in
>general, the best educated or best trained workers in America - if 
>they were they would already be working.

>That says nothing about their inherent abilities, and charges
>of racism are inflammatory and aren't constructive.
>-- 
>   Brice Dowaliby, Fluent Inc., 10 Cavendish Court, Lebanon, NH  03766
>                         bd%fluent@dartmouth.edu        
>             I don't speak for them, they don't speak for me
>                              DoD # 0698