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- From: slagle@lmsc.lockheed.com (Mark Slagle)
- Subject: Re: Don't get me started (Part 3)
- Message-ID: <SLAGLE.92Jul30130925@sgi417.msd.lmsc.lockheed.com>
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- In-reply-to: foy@aero.org's message of Wed, 29 Jul 1992 15:59:34 GMT
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- Organization: You wouldn't ask this if you'd seen my desk.
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- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 92 20:09:28 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul29.155934.4239@aero.org>, foy@aero.org (Richard Foy) writes:
-
- > Mark: The "spendthrifts" in Sacramento are not the people who
- > generated a crisis.
-
- Richard: Yes, they are.
-
- > The people who generated the crisis are Howard Jarvis and those
- > of us who wanted our taxes lowered and in the process made a
- > requirement that it takes a 2/3 majority to pass a budget.
-
- Putting a limit on taxation did not create the problem, it
- attempted, without much success, to limit it.
-
- > That fact creates a situation where a minority in Sacramento
- > stalls the process hoping to gain political fall out it the
- > future.
-
- Yes, exactly, the spendthrifts in Sacramento who refuse to
- pass a balanced budget because it means cutting into the
- entitlements from which they derive their power have created
- the problem. That was my point.
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