From: dano@srl01.usl.edu (Dan Stephenson)
Subject: Re: Perot ?
Organization: Univ. of Southwestern Louisiana
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 05:25:14 GMT

jprad@faatcrl.UUCP (Jack Radigan) writes:

>dano@srl01.usl.edu (Dan Stephenson) writes:

>>>  In case you haven't noticed, foreign policy is not what this country
>>>needs.  He's all but ignored the country, the environment and anything
>>>else that matters to his constituency.

>>Of course the US needs foreign policies.  Are you kidding?

>  Dan, you can be almost charmingly literal at times, you know? ;-)

I mean what I say and say exactly what I mean.
Really- I mean it!  :) :)

>  Nowhere did I say that we should obliterate foreign policy, but it isn't
>exactly something that occupies the first three slots in what I perceive to
>be the real problems facing this country at the moment.

The US is a global power.  Foreign policy isn't as important as it may
have been before, since if a Democrat got elected as President,
there would be no Communist Soviet Union to surrender to.

>  1. Unchecked Nation Debt and no plan to curb it.

This is a result of the value of US 'property'.  It brings money
into the US.  I do think deficit spending should be brought under
control, but any voter suppoting Clinton *and* a balanced 
budget is severely deluding himself.

>  2. Obscene trade imbalence with Japan.

This is where FOREIGN POLICY comes in.  The US and Japan can be mutually
beneficial.  Therefore, the key isnt't to tariff Japanese goods,
but pressure Japan (foreign policy) to allow more foreign goods to be
sold.  The cost of living in Japan is pretty high, I hear.

>  3. Out of control medical industry.

But it is the best in the world.  I'd hate this to turn into a
socialized
medicine vs. privately owned medicine debate....  One way to lower costs
of the present system would be to follow Vice President Dan Quayle's
proposals to make malpractice suits much harder to levy and/or reduce
settlements.  THis way, doctors would nhPot have to pay nearly as much
medical insurance and presumably reduce the fees (since they don't need
the extra money for malpractice insurance).
Again, if you think Clinton is going to help 'those rich,
greedy'doctors,
you're crazy  (not you personally, Jack).

>>Some people feel that a person's private life and personal, private
>>decision are made by the same mind that makes public policies.

>  By the same measure people are also allowed to form their own opinions.
>Again, those opinions and the agendas that they often create should not be
>allowed to interfere with people living their own lives.

But the president of the US DOES affect my life,..and yours,..
and everybody in the US and millios of other around the world.

>>Well, Clinton does support a single-entity socialized education system.
>>George Bush, on the other hand, has for long advocated the 'voucher
>>system' in education.  This would allow the *natural* existence of 
>>competition in Education.

>  It should be immediately obvious that a competitive environment will lead
>to almost total disfranchisment of the inner city as far as access to a decent
>education is concerned.

May well.

>  Remove the possibility for someone's child of a lower income class to learn
>themselves out of the ghetto and you just might spark a revolution.

Realize now, that all Bush wants to do is help students.  All students.
The scholarships would be spread around, mostly among the 'needy' or
middle-class type people.  It isn't about ridding all public education.

>  I think we'd do better to focus on the factors that led to a decline in
>a once functional education system then replace it with another.

LIke Commodore, the US has a good product (Education/Amiga), but 
lacks the initiatives related to a competitive environment.

>>I welcome conservatism in Clinton's ideas.  I mean, he call himself a
>>Democrat all day long, and I would like him for any of his conservative
>>ideas _alone_.  Unfortunately, I don't think Clinton would live
>>up to the 'moderate' status he has donned for the campaign if he 
>>won the Presidency.

>  Dunno what is worse (or better) 4 more years like the last 12 or 4 that
>*could* be better...

I guess you don't rememeber BEFORE the last 12...with Jimmy Carter
and his policies resulting in double-digit unemployment, and
19% inflation and interest rates.  Woo woo.  Read: how NOT
to lead as President.

>  -jack-
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Dan Stephenson|das9674@usl.edu masres10@ucs.usl.edu dano@srl01.cacs.usl.edu
Come all of you you/Who are not satisfied/As rulers in a lone wall/
papered room/Full of mute bird and flowers that /Falsely bloom/And
closets choked with dreams that long ago died,... --Judy Collins