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- From: bfrg9732@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Brian F. Redman)
- Subject: Bankruptcy 1995 (part 1)
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- Summary: The approaching fiscal Armageddon
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 00:46:59 GMT
- Keywords: treachery trickery deceit deception
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- Bankruptcy 1995: The Coming Collapse of America & How to Stop It.
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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- by Harry E. Figgie, Jr.
- with Gerald J. Swanson, Ph.D.
-
- About the authors:
- -- Harry E. Figgie, Jr. is the CEO of Figgie International Inc.,
- a diversified *Fortune 500* operating company. He was co-chairman
- of President Reagan's Private Sector Survey on Cost Control, also
- known as the Grace Commission.
- -- Dr. Gerald J. Swanson is an Associate Professor of Economics
- at the University of Arizona.
-
- "Any profits from this book have long since been assigned to
- charity. We make no profit whatsoever from it." (p. 25).
-
- $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
- * *
- * The United States has a problem that is easy to understand, *
- * but whose effects are difficult to comprehend. Its solution *
- * is simple to prescribe, but hard to implement. This problem *
- * is more insidious than drug addiction, more pressing than *
- * recession; it is crueler than poverty and illness and more *
- * hazardous than a hole in the ozone. *
- * *
- * This problem, which is of our own making, will precipitate *
- * an economic nightmare that will dwarf the Great Depression *
- * and turn the history of America into one of history's *
- * closed chapters. This problem has a name. It is *government *
- * debt.* *
- * *
- $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
-
- --------------------------- part 1 ------------------------------
-
- The book begins with a Foreward by U.S. Senator Warren B. Rudman.
- The senator begins by pointing out that we are currently at war:
- "We are at war economically."
-
- While war is usually thought of in the traditional sense of
- soldiers and battles, such now is not the case. "Our nation's
- wealth is being drained drop by drop, because our government
- continues to mount record deficits and, in order to finance its
- obligations, puts us at the mercy of foreign lenders."
-
- Rudman thinks that this problem has developed due to a
- "conspiracy of silence among presidential candidates and most
- members of Congress." Because these people are politicians, they
- are reluctant to inform their constituency for fear that this
- will cost them votes and hurt their chances for re-election. So,
- nothing much has been said and the problem has continued to grow
- over the years.
-
- Rudman is alarmed that the future of the United States "will
- consist of economic disaster unless we take immediate remedial
- action."
-
- "We are about to enter an era of $400 billion to $500 billion
- annual deficits... We are simply mortgaging the future for the
- present... The money we have worked so hard to save all our lives
- will be worthless."
-
- And, he adds, "Time is running out."
-
- The senator closes by imploring us to wake up to the urgency of
- this situation: "Nothing is more important to the future of our
- country than getting this problem under control. We must treat it
- for the war it is..."
-
-
- ------------------------- end part 1 ----------------------------
-
- You can do a lot of good by taking this article and posting it to
- other areas besides "alt.activism." You can also post this or
- upload it as a file to a local BBS. This would help give the
- people of this nation an alternative to the "fluff" and
- propaganda posturing as hard news which they are currently
- getting from the major networks.
-
-
- Synopsis/Review by Brian Redman
- "Ah yes, Armageddon. I remember it well."
- End part 1
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