From: tucker@vishnu.edsg.hac.com (George Tucker)
Newsgroups: sci.econ,talk.politics.misc
Subject: Lies, Damn Lies, and Platforms (was Perot....)
Date: 17 Oct 92 01:10:20 GMT
Reply-To: tucker@vishnu.UUCP (George Tucker)
Organization: Hughes Aircraft Co., El Segundo, CA

In article <1992Oct12.202949.24729@tc.fluke.COM> curry@tc.fluke.COM (John Curry) writes:
>In <MATT.92Oct8122111@physics.berkeley.edu> matt@physics.berkeley.edu (Matt Austern) writes:
>>Voters ought to remember that too.  The next President is going to be
>>either Bill Clinton or George Bush, and we might as well face reality
>>and accept that fact.  If you choose, for whatever reason, to vote for
>>Perot, then you are giving up your opportunity to influence the
>>decision between those two candidates.

The next President is going to be Bill Clinton.  The debate people kept
out Andre Marrou because they wanted only those who might possibly win,
and then proceeded to add two losers at their own discretion.  If you
choose, for whatever reason, to vote for anyone else, you are giving up
your opportunity to add your vote to a landslide.  What a loss!

This is the perfect opportunity to use your vote to publicize the 
platform you REALLY prefer without risk of adversely affecting the
actual immediate outcome of the election. Go for it!

Here are the major choices:
Bush - "No new taxes", weapons to Iraq, huge trade deficit with China, etc.
	Clarence Thomas, repressive constitutional amendments (proposed).
	Anti-abortion at any cost, environmental disaster area.
	Biggest deficits, most intrusive government ever, clueless.
	Opposes rational cost controls on health plans, but also opposes 
	health plans.

	Positives: line-item veto proposal, criticized legal system,
		Cable veto, not trigger-happy overseas.
		Capital gains tax.
		Congress is Democratic, so a Republican President curbs its
		excesses.

Perot - Military attack on drugs, accomplished blackmailer, gripes, no plan.
	Positives: gas tax would cut imports and increase efficiency,
		best chance of cutting corruption and pork barrel.
		Pro-choice (although generally fascist).
		Might get the clout to restrain Clinton spending.
    "A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon you have real money." (E.D.)

Clinton - "I am not a tax and spend Democrat".  Uh, well, now that I am 
	well ahead, I do have this plan for spending a whole lot of money.
	Let's see if the big surge in interest rates resulting from my
	announcements can make Bush look even worse.  Oh yeah, I also
	want to regulate everything, but that's still secret.
	Trigger-happy on Yugoslavia, tends to be emotional.
	Democrat President + Democrat Congress = pork barrel party time.
	No line-item veto from this one.
	Not a peep on reforming legal system to reduce litigation.

	Positives:  Has a clue about life in the real world.
		Inflation is good for real estate, which I own.
		Halt deterioration of the Supreme Court.
 		Apprenticeship plan, hopefully borrowed from Germany.
		Environmental, hopefully with cost constraints.
	Unknown biggy: Supports health care, might support rational
		cost controls.  However, might compromise on cost controls
		to get his program through or might just add bureaucracy.
		Nice idea, big risk.	

Marrou - All power to property, privatization at any cost.
	Positives: Against War On Drugs, might save your life savings from
		arbitrary government expropriation, etc. 
		Pro-choice, positive on rights of people vs. government.
		Vote shows support for reducing government interference.

Greens, etc. - Mostly pro-government meddling in everything, but there may
	be exceptions.
	 George Tucker        tucker@shiva.hac.com
	"Innocence is irrelevant."
		Select two:	The Borg
				US Judicial System
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