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- From: aviksroy@athena.mit.edu (Avik S. Roy)
- Subject: Re: BUSH
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- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 18:10:54 GMT
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- crussel@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Carol A Russell) wails:
-
- ) Well, so far we are 3:1. 3 people flaming me (2 mail, 1 newsgroup) about the
- ) LA riots, and 1 agreeing with me that these are problems. The 3 that flamed me
- ) said "how could the LA riots be George's fault?" The point that I'm trying to
- ) make is that George has set a political climate in this country that is almost
- ) Aryan in its philosophy: if you're black, we'll appoint a black judge to
- ) appease you, but he'll be a conservative who's against women's choice. If
- ) you're gay, there won't be sufficient funding for AIDS research. The economy?
- ) Well, perhaps we can go have another air raid on IRAQ...use some
- ) weapons...spend some defense money.
-
- I'm quite offended by the assertion that all blacks think alike. It smacks of
- racial condescension. Blacks can think for themselves, thank you very much.
- Clarence Thomas has been the best appointee to the Court since Scalia, one who
- rightly believes that the Constitution is not a document with which to cure all
- of society's ills. But of course, the gutless Congress refuses to do anything.
-
- Women's choice? (a) you don't have to be pro-life to be against Roe v. Wade.
- (Several recent editorials in the New Reupblic describe this line of thinking
- better than I can right now.) (b) correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't most of
- the pro-life groups headed by women? Seems like you don't want them to
- choose--you want to force your opinion down their throat.
-
- AIDS research? More money goes to AIDS research than *cancer*. And cancer kills
- something like 100 times more people a year than aids. We spend far more on AIDS
- research than we should, solely because of the whining of gay "rights" extremists.
- This takes away from National Institutes of Health funding for cancer, heart
- disease, and other medical problems which are far more of a threat than AIDS.
- "But hell with cancer research, maintaining my 'lifestyle' is more important."
-
- The economy? Talk to the Democratic Congress, which cares far more about
- bringing pork back home and creating more entitlements for their favorite special
- interest groups. LBJ's "great society" programs have cost us more than the value
- of every fortune 500 company and most public land *combined*.
-
- Iraq? Perhaps we could have let the sanctions "work"...while Saddam quietly
- eliminates the people of Kuwait, controls a fifth of the world's oil, and keeps
- the Middle East peace process a pipe dream.
-