From: niepornt@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (David Marc Nieporent)
Subject: Re: COUNTER BLITZ  -= Strike out against Pork-Party-Politics =-
Originator: news@nimaster
Organization: Princeton University
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 06:10:08 GMT

In <01GPE7UF83YS001661@utarlg.uta.edu> B645ZAW@UTARLG.UTA.EDU (STEPHEN TICE):

>The media blitz is turned on high now.

>First to distract the public from registering to vote
>(which ends in many states this week),
>and then to distract from the Democratic/Republican Congress
>which is passing yet another No Priority/No Pain FY '93
>Federal Budget on the backs of the tax-payers.

>The media has to distract you because there is no way to
>defend a $1.5 Trillion dollar government budget.

Of course there is.  The farmers get welfare-for-the-rich agricultural
subsidies.  The poor get welfare.  The middle class gets
welfare-for-the-rich defense pork.  Old people get welfare-for-the-rich
Social Security.  Everyone gets a WarOnRights which is going to 
MakeOurStreetsSafer.  (Not.)  

People *like* what the money is being spent on.  They may not agree with
each item, but they want their own pork, so they're willing to accept
other people's pork.

>The American People do not author the budgets, nor do they
>prioritize them, nor do they sign them into law. Congress-
>men elected by 10-20% of the people and a president elected
>by electors make and enforce the Budget.

>And the greater majority of the people are kept out of the
>political process through:

>      o  complex voter registration requirements
>         (instead of just using state drivers liscence or id's)

Complex?  All I had to do was fill out a form and send it in.  If you
can't be bothered to do that, why do we want you voting? This isn't the
major issue, anyway -- a large percentage of those *registered* don't vote.

>      o  frequent relocation of polling places
>         (without postcard notice to the residents)

Mine hasn't been moved in at least 10 years.

>      o  frequent redefinition of district boundaries
>         (again without informing the public via postcard)

Um, they sort of have to do this every ten years.

>      o  "representation" by number coded district
>         (rather than neighborhood, subdivison, or town)

The rules sort of say you have to have equally populated districts.  It's
hard to keep those boundaries in line with existing political boundaries.

>      o  dominant party control of districting
>         (to exclude minor party or independent access)

This is a problem, but how are you suggesting it be done?  And, BTW, the
Dems and Reps could care less about minor parties/independents.  They
don't get any votes no matter what the districts are.

>      o  tax subsidies of dominant party campaigns
>         (also to exclude minor party or independent access)

Only in the Presidential election.

>      o  elections on work days
>         (rather than simple mail-in voting)

Delaware has Saturday voting -- and turnout isn't higher.

>      o  age restrictions
>         (rather than direct recognition that every citizen
>          regardless of their degree of intellectual or material
>          attainment has a valuable viewpoint to offer)

Yeah.  If Dan Quayle can be VP, children should be allowed to vote.

>And lastly, the most damaging: dominant media control of the
>world view (ie propaganda) by leaving out essential facts, or just plain lies.

That BiasedMediaConspiracy -- damn.  Tice found out about it -- now we'll
have to kill him.  :)  Seriously, other than being biased against
intelligence, what bias do you see?

>Make no mistake -- though it is the Democratic & Republican
>parties which are to blame for the $1.5 Trillion dollar Federal
>Budget, the $4 Trillion dollar Federal Debt, and massive
>Pork-Politics-Spending, for which no service or product is
>provided except to the few....

>*     We as citizens and taxpayers are still responsible     *
>*     because it is our income which empowers them, and      *
>*     we are the only ones who will change the satus quo.    *

YES!  Exactly!

>If you doubt that fact -- then explain how the Communist Party
>was overthrown.

Because Mikhail Gorbachev decided that the Stalinist system wouldn't work?

>The One-Pork-Party of the American-Political-Class, even with the
>media propaganda machine, can not continue without your tax support
>and your belief in their manipulations.

>I urge you to vote your own mind, (even if that's for the politics-
>of-pork which buys your vote). I also urge those who would enact
>real change to participate in a general boycott -- through election
>day -- by cutting your own spending to just what you need. The cancer
>of pork-party-politics is the most fragile part of the economy, and
>can not withstand your withdrawing support.

>The evidence of the cancer of overspending is the new $1.5 Trllion
>dollar FY'93 Federal Budget (due tomorrow) which the porkers can not
>defend. Please, boycott through election day, and on election day
>take a "sick-day" off -- voting should not be on a work day --
>the taxpayers must strike.

-- 
David M. Nieporent   | Orioles 1993 World Series Champions
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