Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc
Subject: The Missing 92 Presidential Campaign Questions
From: f71839389@skyblu.ccit.arizona.edu (D R Friedman)
Date: 11 Apr 1992 18:50 MST  
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Organization: University of Arizona
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I am listening and not one candidate on either side of the bowl is asking the
famous question:

Are better off now than you were four years ago.

I am one of the angry voters.  To hell with Congress and the Presidency.
I hold conservative republicans and liberal democrats equally at fault
for making me an angry voter.  I am angry because I am working my ass
off now and enjoying it less and my children and grandchildren will have
even less.  I am now paying more taxes in my state because the President
lowered Federal withoholding and the state raised state withholding to
make up for lost funds.  My congressman and senators are still voting
pork barrel projects that may be good in my district, but will run up
the national deficit.  And this for a few friends and votes.

My city and country governments are equally deficient and of course so are
the bureaucracies.  

My wife works at a state university where:

1.  They kept the old president on at a 100K consultant contract
2.  They hired a new president at a +40K over the old president's rates, plus
     $4000/month housing allowance for entertainment
3.  They hired a women's volleyball coach on a multi-year contract 75K/year
4.  They claimed that the university has no money so the following things
   happened:
    A.  Class size got bigger with fewer classes
     B.  Students' graduation dates extended
    C.  Staff members being laid off
     D.  Student services being cut
     E   Student health services being cut
5.  Hired an executive legal assistant to president [100K/year]
6.  They upped the budget 500K for a telescope project that is under legal
    siege by environmental, and Indian groups, since building scopes on
    what the Indians consider sacred is normal
Note:  They is the Board of Regents and no I did not vote for these people
they were appointed by the governor of our state who has promised he would
run our state like a business.  His businesses went chapter 11 and so is our
state.
Our state in the name of jobs, builds prisons and a town in my county want
in the name of jobs wants to build a dump/landfill near a water canal and
freeway and railroad and says that the company near these transportation
sources won't haul in waste from other states.

If a conservative ideologue calls me a liberal or once again tells me that if
I don't like the country I was born I can go somewhere else, then I would
personally barf.  If a liberal or bleeding heart liberal tells me that I
just don't care about human issues, i am going to barf also because I have
worked with homeless teen agers, gangs, and other at risk groups and have
been in advocacy roles.

I've had it with both parties.  The continual crap about the holocaust
on the NET.  I don't care if the BANISHED CPU exists or who wants to
connect to it.  I do care about this country and jobs leaving for places
like Mexico or students from other countries coming over and then being
resentful they have to leave and try to continually to stay in school
and get jobs all while I am financing these "poor fella" with my US tax
dollars.  I do care about this country and people doing their military
obligations and defending this country and went to school at a time that
this was expected.

I just wish someone running for President would come up with an idea or
bring a friend to match wits with some of the people I know who are in
the communities.  This may be the 1st time, I say to hell with the
election process.


Denny Friedman                            F71839389@skyblu.ccit.arizona.edu

"Any kind of machinery used for shortening labour-except used in a cooperative 
society like ours- must tend to less wages, and to deprive working men of 
employment and finally either starve them or compel them to emigrate."

	--Manifesto Cooperative Community County Clare Ireland, 1883
	on the introduction of the reaping machine.

April 11, 1992:  Thousands of IBM workers were declared "surplus" and told to
get another job within IBM or get severance pay.
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