From: dc4l+@andrew.cmu.edu (Dean Calloway)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.african.american
Subject: Re: Clinton, Jesse Jackson, and African-Americans
Date: 12 Sep 92 20:08:25 GMT
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

Excerpts from netnews.soc.culture.african.american: 11-Sep-92 Re:
Clinton, Jesse Jackson,.. by Vignes Gerard M@ucs.usl. 
>         Political parties don`t care, only people can care.
>  
>         The Republican Party represents the interests of
>         entrepreneurs and working professionals, black and white.

          Bull.  The Republican party represents the interests of those
whose primary purpsoe is  to change the laws governing this country so
that they are more conducive to their doing business.

>  
>         These people have homes and families and businesses
>         and employees, all of whom need most of their attention
>         and resources.  They don't have time to devise grandiose
>         schemes

            This is truly laughable.  The R party doesn't have time to
devise ANY kind of strategy.  This government is SUPPOSED to be "by the
people and for the people."  The Republican economic philosophy of
"trickle-down" (Let's create a wealthy class and HOPE that their
prosperity improves the lot of the rest of America) is silly, asinine,
and dangerous.        

BTW there were 4412 millionaires in America in 1978.  In 1990, there
were 63,000 (Approximately).  Go figure.

 to solve the world`s problems because they are
>         busy tring to take care of their own. 

Where do I put my money?  In the sofa or under my bed?


 This is the way
>         humans have traditionally looked after each other,
>         families and communities bound by loyalty and
>         common interest.

Good.  Fine.  There's also a line in the DI about when governemnt is
unjust, and not representative of the people, the government should be
overturned.  This current administration is unjust and by no means
representative. 

  The monolithic top-down
>         governments of the socialist era are a
>         recent and very temporary development,
> 
Right.  And before we had Czars, kings, barons, Caesars, Lords,...

        and their promises to provide have
>         gone largely unfulfilled.

Hmm.  "No new taxes,"  "the creation of 30 million jobs," and "I pledge
that there will be no net loss of wetland areas" are three promises that
Bush has not kept.  I have a LOT more...


>  
>         Most Americans with money are not enamored of the
>         social engineering projects which the Democratic
>         party idealizes because, as responsible

Self-interested and short-sighted

 citizens,
>         they realize such efforts are monstrously
>         expensive and nominally ineffectual.

>                                                 Gerard Vignes
>  

Interesting.  I suppose we could take it a step further and abolish all
social programs.  Then, if we're really progressive, we should cut out
taxes entirely.  If those with means want to protect their property, let
them hire their own police.  Let them fund their own fire department. 
Let them build their own airports to fly them in and out of Florida for
vacations.  Let them build their own highways to roll their bright shiny
new Lexus' out on.

The fact of the matter is that spending under the Reagan administration
went through the roof in an effort to subsidize socialism for the
wealthy.  

DCAL
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