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- From: sarfatti@well.sf.ca.us (Jack Sarfatti)
- Subject: Kim Speaks!
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- Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 03:34:48 GMT
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- Copy to Lawry Chickering, ICS
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- Are we getting the wrong messages, Mr. President?
-
- Over a decade of Republican economic policies, or looting, depending upon
- one's perception, has left America tattered and disillusioned.
- Take heart. A handsome, intelligent, and well-meaning dynamic duo promise
- to put America back to work, and to bring forth an economic and spiritual
- American renewal.
-
- But already there are troubling signs that this renewal may be one more of
- style than substance. Instead of an inauguration, a solemn and humble
- passing of power, we're given a 25 million dollar corporate mega-
- commercial, produced and choreographed in typical Hollywood tackyslick
- style. I just hope the images that we saw aren't what we'll get -- Ken
- doll men, constructed by designing women.
-
- Consider some of your cabinet appointments, Mr. President --all thirteen of
- whom happen to be lawyers. What song of praise can you sing over the
- fresh, new face of Lloyd Bentsen, other than "We may be sax playin' rock n'
- rollers, but we're stayin' the course," sung to a tune with a more familiar
- refrain, perhaps something along the lines of "We won't get fooled again,"
- and performed by a stage full of Hollywood Reagan democrats. But they
- never quite pull it off.
-
- Then we have Ron Brown, a former lobbyist for Sony. What kind of message
- does that send to the high technology sector? It's no wonder that a number
- of American executives who endorsed you feel they've been betrayed, almost
- violated, by Mr. Brown's appointment as Secretary of Commerce.
-
- Your recently withdrawn nomination of Zoe Baird as Attorney General sends
- mixed messages as well. At best, it was bad judgement to believe that the
- American public's legal interests would be best served by a former
- corporate council for G.E. and Aetna Life. Some might consider that almost
- cynical.
-
- And now that you've changed your mind on Haitian immigrants, what kind of
- message does that send to those tired, and huddled masses? Meanwhile,
- illegal immigrants pour in from the Orient and Latin America. Are we
- witnessing a double standard here?
-
- Remember the controversy over China being granted most-favored nation
- trading status? Despite the fact that gross violations of human rights in
- China continue unabated, that too, you say, is a complicated situation, Mr.
- President. Perhaps the sale of cheap goods manufactured by prison slave
- labor is mutually beneficial to the U.S and China's economies.
-
- Then there's the matter of our continuing trade deficit with Japan.
- Obviously, we can't afford to jeopardize our "special relationship" with
- Japan, over a simple thing like their institutionalization of unfair trade
- practices. In other words, is it just going to be bad business as usual?
-
- And last but not least, we certainly can't forget the evil presence of our
- perennial favorite bad guy, enemy of the entire civilized world, Saddam
- Hussein - even if we have to bomb him until he dies a natural death. Are
- we sending a message to other Moslem countries, that they too, will receive
- the same treatment as Iraq, should they attempt to develop nuclear weapons?
- If so, then we are likely to be in a continual state of conflict for a long
- time to come.
- Yet, we shamelessly sit back while tens of thousands of innocent Bosnian
- Moslems are raped, tortured, and murdered in a deliberately orchestrated
- Serbian campaign of genocide. So, the double standard continues, much to
- the dismay of our Moslem allies.
-
- We won't mention the promises of raising or lowering taxes, or the
- inevitable upward revisions in the estimates of the budget deficit.
-
- You tell the American people they must make sacrifices. They have already
- made many sacrifices, and have been sacrificed in the process, Mr.
- President. Now it's the federal government's turn.
-
- Our hearty congratulations and best wishes to you, the vice-president, and
- your families. We're sorry about canceling the honeymoon. But you
- understand, there just isn't enough time. This house must now be put in
- order, or we will surely lose it.
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- Copyright 1993, by Kim Burrafato
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