From: looi@ssf-corp.dhl.com (Wan Looi)
Subject: humors (political figures)
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 05:29:50 GMT
Organization: DHL Worldwide Express, Redwood City, Calif., USA



I know the election is just over, but heck ...

Subject: FY(A?):  a political "water fountain" story
Ain't this just a dead-on illustration of these political figures?!!

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  copied w/o permission from the NY Times, Monday 8/31/92, p.A15
 
Imagine that a network morning show has assembled six political
heavyweights for a call-in show.  A teacher phones to report that during
a recent class tour of the White House, a student wanted a drink of
water, only to discover that the fountain was out of order.  The teacher
asks the panel what message a broken fountain at the White House sends
to the young people of America.  Let's listen to the answers.


Ross Perot: The question here is simple: how do we fix it.  I say, let's
bring together the finest plumbing talent in America -- from outside the
system.  Let them look at the fountain.  Turn it on.  Turn it off.
Measure the flow in it.  That sort of thing.  And you can be sure, the
next time you take a White House tour, you're going to drink from a
world-class fountain.

Jesse Jackson: Let us not talk about this broken water fountain.  Let us
talk about the thousands of broken water fountains across America.  For
they, too, are broken, like the broken dreams of America's forgotten
children.  And whether you are black, white, brown or yellow, you cannot
use them.  Why?  Because the Republican Party is more interested in
Perrier water and Pellegrino water than it is in public water.

Al Gore: I love my country.  And I love water.  And I love the children
who drink from the water fountains in the country I love, and that my
father loves.  And I believe in my heart that the time has come, now
more than ever, for all of us to be inspired by the young people of
America whose dreams for the future depend on our ability as a nation to
provide them with the water that is the essence of their survival.

Dan Quayle: I am very, very sympathetic to the disappointment young
people in America feel when they go to a water fountain in the single
most important building in America and cannot drink from it.  Because
I, too, would be very, very disappointed if I were to go to get a drink
from a water fountain and discover that, because of the Democrats, the
water does not come up.  Water is a terrible thing to waste, when there
is thirst but no water, that is a terrible thing.

Bill Clinton: I grew up in a home where public water fountains were
very important to me and to my family.  And I have put forward a plan
similar to the plan I introduced to Arkansas.  This plan is good for
America.  It takes the $4.25 million savings we ralize when we eliminate
the 10 percent reduction on the capital gains that exceed $30,000 in
any given one-year period for Americans under the age of 31 who
graduated before 1984, and it allocates 18.5 percent of that sum to
paying for 80 percent of the new fountain construction.

George Bush: O.K.  Sure.  Fine.  There's something wrong with a water
fountain in the White House?  Not denying it.  Have to be a fool to
deny it.  But make no mistake about it.  There is a lot that is right
with it, too.  And that's one thing I want to focus on, you see, not
what's bad about the water fountains in America by what's good about
them.  And with the help of the American people and a Republican
Congress I can work with, I can make the water flow again in the water
fountains of America.


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