From: root@netmail.austin.ibm.com (Chris Moller)
Newsgroups: alt.politics.clinton,tx.politics
Subject: Re: Clinton's Economic Plan
Date: 17 Aug 92 16:57:22 GMT
Reply-To: moller@netmail.austin.ibm.com
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Organization: As little as I can get away with.

In article <1992Aug17.132446.9845@awdprime.austin.ibm.com>, curt@ekhadafi.austin.ibm.com (Curt Finch 903 2F021 curt@aixwiz.austin.ibm.com 512-838-2806) writes:

[...]

|>> 
|>> Medicaire has to go, except for the poor.
|>> Social Security has to go, except for the poor.
|>> Housing subsidies, (like the housing mortgage interest deduction,) has to
|>> go, except for the poor.

Why should we keep making execptions for the so-called "poor"?

|>> 
|>> Poor means poor.  Not middle class.  Poor means rice and beans and no heat
|>> in the winter.  I'm sick and tired of spending my tax money on retired
|>> guys with two boats and an RV.

I'm "sick and tired" of wasting my money on those too lazy to work.

|>> 
|>> My son is two years old and many thousands of dollars in debt, thanks to
|>> uncle sam.  What a way to start your life.

The actual number, as of this morning, is around $15,768.  That's almost sixteen
thousand dollars per person.  Curt, between you, your son, and, presumably, your
wife, the total comes to about $47,000.  Obviously, for most families in the US,
their portion of the national debt is, after a house if they have one, their
single largest financial obligation.

And the national debt is growing at a rate of roughly $14,000 per SECOND.
That's $1.2 BILLION per day; that's 'B' for Billion.

While it may be philosophically arguable that charity for the poor is a good
thing, the sort of massive institutional charity that the US has been practicing
since the thirties is well on it's way to bankrupting the nation.  Technically,
I guess, it has _already_ bankrupted us:  we're living on borrowed money and, I
suspect, on borrowed time.  We can no longer afford to support the growing
burden of people who consume society's resources and offer nothing in return
except shrill demands for more.

|>> 
|>> This must stop.

Actually, it _will_ stop, one way or another.  The only questions are when and
how much economic and human destruction will result.  We can either start
putting the brakes on now, or we can hit that brick wall some time not far in
the future.

|>> 
|>> 
|>> Is Clinton gonna balance the budget?  Is Bush?

I don't see much hope that anyone whose continued employment depends on elec-
tions is going to balance the budget.  Too many people will continue to vote
for bread-and-circuses, blithely assuming The Gummint can just print up another
billion to pay for it.  Personally, I think we're going to hit that wall...


|>> 
|>> No.  We are.

I'd love to agree, but I just don't think that Curt's "we" is a big enough
group.

|>> -- 
|>> curt@aixwiz.austin.ibm.com (Curt L. Finch) | AIX NFS/NIS Field Quality 
|>> My views are unrelated to those of IBM     |        Austin, TX
|>> FICA is a massive wealth transfer from young middle class to old middle class.

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