From: mtc001@dunix.drake.edu (Spike)
Subject: Re: PROVE IT
Organization: Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa, USA
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 18:40:07 GMT

In article <gf0MBgK00iV4Q2Ll8T@andrew.cmu.edu> Karin Brennan <kb4c+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:

>.people rich enough to afford them.  But other than that, how in the
>world do .you think it would be possible to achieve socialism in this
>country?  Show me
>.how it would be possible to do that, show me how the inertia would be
>affected,
>.show me people in this country who would actually vote for a socialist state.
>.It ain't gonna happen.
>
>Well...It starts with People starting to believe that they have all of
>these RIGHTS-other than Life, Liberty, and the Persuit of Happiness-
>that they were never guaranteed.  Rights like medical care, job
>training, and cheap cable TV.  Then you get those same people to start
>getting REALLY angry at rich people who have all of those things, they
>start shouting words like "Greedy" and "Share" and they start DEMANDING
>that they should have these things too.  Since these People don't have
>the means to get these groovy things on their own, they must take them
>from the people who HAVE the means, or $$.    Lastly, you get all of
>these people together and find  a Presidential Candidate with Robin Hood
>ideals.  Somebody they can ALL vote for, and they put him in the White
>House.   This is when the wheels really start to spin.  The Rich get to
>pay a sky high tax rate because "they have enough already", and business
>start losing the right to hire and fire who and when the please, and
>everything the government can get it's hands on it regulates, and people
>get really lazy and bored with life because "why should I bother if I
>don't have to?"   Be sure to watch the Government as it grows, and GROWS
>until  by golly It's like a little Socialism. 
>
I LOVE reading this crap.  Republicans are really good at exaggerating,
terrorizing, threatening, and doing ANYTHING to scare someone out of "the
bad guy's side."  No wonder Perot was so paranoid of Bush!!!
So you thing that American's don't have the "right" to health care?  I hope you
lose all your money and one of your kids gets lukemia.  I hope it feels real
good when you watch you kid die before your eyes.  Wanna know something?  I've
see it happen.  I'm NOT going to let it continue because those Republicans 
think Americans can pull themselves out of poverty with their own bootstraps.
You have NO concept.

>Because the American mentality is " Get all that you can get "  The way
>we became such a wonderful country is by using our "survival of the
>Fittest" instincts.  If you take that away you'll have a nation of wet
>sponges.

Nation of wet sponges?  I'm hearing impaired with a 90% deafness.  I'm in the
top of my class.  I have a triple major.  One being Russian and the other
two Accounting and Corporate Finance.  I've been to Russia twice.  I'm going
to work for the State Department this summer at the age of 20.  I'm a "wet
sponge" in your words, I'm going to contribute to this great country of ours.

You think I should have been born, without government help for my family to
be able to afford my hearing aids.  Without Dems, I'd be deaf and probably 
drooling in some corner under a bridge.  Screw you, NO ONE is a wet sponge.
You suggest throwing Stephen Hawking out in the garbage?

You're the wet sponge kiddo.

>I can understand the country's need for change:  however, I do challenge
>the wisdom in this final decision.  Don't expect me to sit here and
>"Deal with it" while the country goes further in this direction. I lived
>part of my life in a country with a socialist government, and I know
>that IT DOES NOT WORK!  It does not make people happy.  It takes 10
>times as long to get things accomplished.  It sucks, and I do not want
>it or any part of it here! You deal with that! 

The usual Republican exagerration....wow.  Socialism?  Really?  Why didn't
we elect the Socialist Party that ran against Bush and Clinton and Perot?
Scare tactics....I don't fall for that crock of crap.


-] Spike













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