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- Subject: Re: Free at last!!
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 12:27:52 PST
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- In <nate.1093@psygate.psych.indiana.edu>, Nathan Engle writes:
-
- >fdeck@vyasa.helios.nd.edu (francis deck) writes:
- >>We are free at last from an executive branch which believes
- >>that it is above the law, and that its purpose is to enrich
- >>private individuals.
-
- > I might go along with the "above the law" part of your statement but
- >I'd say that the "enrich private individuals" expectation remains to be
- >seen.
-
- Well, if Zoe Baird is confirmed, you can scratch the "above the law" part
- of it, too--at an even earlier date than you could say it about anyone in the
- Reagan or Bush Administrations.
-
- >> At least I hope that will turn out to
- >>be the case.
-
- > Good luck.
-
- We can only rely on luck when we're dealing at the level of Washington
- bureaucrats--of either party, who are certainly not very accountable to the
- people.
-
- >> We're free from a guy who calls himself a
- >>conservative, but who has taken initiatives on any number
- >>of occasions to increase the size and power of his own
- >>branch of government.
-
- > Yeah, at this point we have a guy who calls himself a moderate to do
- >that.
-
- Well, I think that Congress is trying to strengthen its own branch by allowing
- territories to vote on the House floor. Politics is (and always has been) a
- power grab, and it's why we have checks and balances in the Constitution. It's
- just that they need to be enforced.
-
- >> We are free from someone who caters
- >>to the right wing, e.g. Rush Limbaugh and the TV preachers.
-
- > Well, that's true. I can agree with that one without reservation.
-
- As long as the far-lefties don't start demanding payback for keeping their
- distance during the campaign, I might agree also. I'll give Clinton the bene-
- fit of the doubt for the time being, and later I will let history be the judge
- as to whether he kisses up to the radicals or if he follows what I honestly
- feel are his own convictions.
-
- >>We are free to tell our children that the way to the top is
- >>not the way of crime.
-
- > You were free to tell them that for the last 12 years too. I'm not
- >certain that the truth of the statement is any greater or less than it
- >used to be, but I kind of hope that it's what you tell your kids regardless
- >of who's in the White House.
-
- The original statement implies that the majority of people who succeed did so
- by lying, cheating and stealing. We only hear about those who do. To suggest
- that most successful people had to resort to crookedness to get there is just
- another form of class envy. And criminality at the top is certainly not the
- monopolistic domain of one political party.
-
-
- Tim Irvin
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