From: matt@smoke.brl.mil (Matthew Rosenblatt)
Newsgroups: misc.legal
Subject: Correction (Was: Re: Who's weakening the constitution?)
Summary: The media are part of the Elite/Rabble racket against the People.
Keywords: Elite; Racket; People; Rabble
Date: 7 Jan 93 20:00:07 GMT
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Lab, APG MD.

In article <19519@smoke.brl.mil>, I wrote:

>A better idea would be to put the entire budget and tax structure for
>a given year up to referendum, line by line.  Next to each spending
>line item would be the amount of tax to pay for it.  The majority of
>the voters would decide whether it is worth accepting that much in taxes
>in order to get that much benefit from the proposed spending.

>Why do I support this idea?  Well, I read that among the exit polls
>taken at last November's election was one that asked voters whether
>they would prefer to pay higher taxes and get more government services,
>or forgo some government services in order to pay lower taxes.  The
>results were that 58% of the voters wanted less government and lower
>taxes, and 41% were willing to pay more in order to get more.  
>[Matt Rosenblatt]

Checking the figures, which appear in the January issue of _Commentary_
magazine (page 22), 

  "the exit polls revealed a conservative tilt.  Voters
   were asked whether they would prefer that 'government
   provide more services but cost more in taxes' or that
   'government cost less in taxes but provide fewer ser-
   vices.'  Fifty-three percent chose less taxes while 38
   percent chose more services."

What I should have written was that, of the 91% who expressed an
opinion one way or the other, 58.24% of them wanted less government
and lower taxes, and 41.76% were willing to pay more in order to
get more.

I continued:

>. . . the Elite who set up and run the System
>are quite aware that if the People had the power to vote directly on
>taxes and spending, the People would put an end to the unholy racket
>that the Elite have devised, the racket that uses the People's earnings 
>to line the pockets of the Elite's Contractor and Government-employee 
>cronies while bribing the Rabble not to pull another violent storming 
>of the Bastille.   [Matt Rosenblatt]

Meanwhile, in article <1993Jan7.140514.9595@rpp386> 
jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F. Haugh II) writes:

>In the Newsweek issue after the election special issue, one writer said
>that it was no wonder Clinton was elected - the media elected him.  I
>remember when people were still amazed that the week after the election
>the media started putting out =good= news about the economy.  I've since
>noticed that there is no more good news being published.  Why?  Because
>too many people caught on to how the media is manipulating the nation.
>So, they are manipulating it again - this time so we don't see that
>Bush was right about the economy being in recovery.  Clever, eh?
>[John F. Haugh II]

If the economy is in recovery (as it is, despite all government meddling),
there's no need for President-elect Clinton's so-called "investment" --
meaning more government pork outlays of our tax money -- is there?  

The mass media aren't exactly trumpeting the exit poll results showing
that more American voters prefer lower taxes and services to higher
services and taxes, either.  

What's the connection?  Well, the media are either members of the Elite
themselves, as in Lichter, Rothman and Lichter's book, _The Media Elite_,
or else they have been hobnobbing with the Elite so long that they have
absorbed the Elite's ideology and approve of the continuing Elite strategy.
That strategy, as I wrote in my previous article, is to use the People's
tax money simultaneously to line the pockets of the Elite's own cronies
and to bribe the Rabble not to riot.

If the media were on the side of the working People, they would be
putting pressure on politicians on all levels to end the scam.  One
way of bringing such pressure to bear would be for the mainstream
media to editorialize in favor of groups like Maryland's "Voter's
Voice," which is John O'Neill's citizens' group in favor of lower
taxes and smaller, more efficient State government.  We need more
reporters, writers and editors who are *not* graduates of liberal-
arts colleges, whose heads have *not* been stuffed full of bleeding-
heart, fuzzy-minded, knee-jerk "compassion" mush by Politically Correct
'Sixties-radicals-turned-college-professors who pander to the Rabble.
We need the media's help to end the racket that uses our tax money 
to prop up the otherwise insupportable, illicit-pleasure-seeking, 
Hedonist lifestyle of the Studs, Sluts, Drunks, and Junkies.

					-- Matt Rosenblatt
                                        (matt@amsaa.brl.mil)

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