From: ts2a+@andrew.cmu.edu (Thomas Omar Smith)
Newsgroups: sci.econ
Subject: Re: Vote for 3rd party/no-party candidates!!!
Date: 5 Oct 92 03:38:48 GMT
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Excerpts from netnews.sci.econ: 5-Oct-92 Re: Vote for 3rd party/no-p..
Ronda Hauben@yfn.ysu.edu (2878)


> In a previous article, markts@mcl.ucsb.edu (Mark T. Schmidt) says:

> >
> >
> >   Clinton? I saw three speaches by Bill in the last 4 days. I think his
> >   strategy is promise the world to everyone. --> Health care for 

> BUT Clinton leaves out WHO produces the WEALTH i.e. the worker

> Clinton has no program for shortening hours of work and raising
> wages,
>  giving workers more say in their unions so they can deal
>   with the trade union officials who act like overlords 

So, you're dissappointed that Clinton won't promise to make America even
less productive and competitive by lowering total work hours and
increasing labor costs.  And your also upset that the government won't
> regulate unions so that their leadership has even less power.

> So Clinton has NOTHING to offer the largest portion of the population
>  the workers
> >
> >   Bush? He comes from a different, yet still wicked angle.  He thinks 
> >   that the FED is the solution to every problem, including international
> >   problems. He thinks he can attain the New World Order by funding the
> >   World Bank and getting all countries under one currency (and eventually

> BUSH is continuing the economic program of the Reagan years - 
> EVERYTHING for the monopoly corporations who are holding back production
> to get high prices.

> Supporting them attacks the WEALTH of the nation and so the country
> is continually poorer.

So, the nation as a whole gets richer if its largest producers pursue
> policies that bankrupt them.

> >
> >  I [may] not agree with a word you say, 
> >  but I will defend to the death your    
> >  right to say it.                       
> >                     - Voltaire         

> Voltaire's Program is the key to an economic program that will help
> deal with the problems.

> It was the priniciple that guided the SEARCHLIGHT the local union
> newspaper of the Flint Sit Down strikers and the other union pioneers
> in Flint -

> They had an uncensored press in which they criticized their trade
> union leaders and they had a shop news section which provided real
> information about what was happening on the shop floor.

> The newspaper was uncensored from 1942 when it started (50 years ago)
> until the International Union censored it in 1951.

> In their newspaper they explained why higher wages DOESN'T lead
> to inflation but leads to better conditions for workers and for the
> whole country.

> I'd love to hear this one.

> They criticized the lean, mean management philosophy which
> GM was trying to impose in 1946-8

So, they were in favor of bloated, lazy management?  Looks like they got
> their wish, and look what it did for them.

> When workers had a VOICE the terrible economic problems of 1946-8
> which were severe problems like now - could be solved.

You mean the largest boom in American history was a time of economic
> trouble?????  46-48 was a huge production boom in America.

> They were the people that saw what was really going on on the 
> shop floor of the largest factories and they told the world
> and they clarified that the problem was that there was
> MODERN TECHNOLOGY so it was possible to go forward but there was
> BACKWARD MANAGEMENT which meant that there was always something trying
> to pull things backwards.

So, a lean, mean management will do whatever it can to avoid
> implementing new technologies that help the company move forward.

> So its good to see Voltaire's Quote again - it is the path to an
> economic program that will deal with the real problems.
>                    Ronda

Voltaire's quote has almost nothing to do with Economics.  but I'll
agree it is a great quote.  Strange, but the only economic philosophy I
> can really see that quote fitting with is Libertarianism too.

> >
> >
> -- 
> Ronda Hauben                    email address:ae547@yfn.ysu.edu
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> Dearborn, MI 48126

It's hard to believe in this day and age that there are still people who
honestly believe that socializing America will add prosperity.  Almost
no nation that has undertaken a socialist agenda has benefitted from it.
 Even the Chinese are abandoning socialist economics in favor of
capitalism.  Socialism doesn't work, and is counter-intuitive to all
human psychology.



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