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- From: PA146008@utkvm1.utk.edu (David Veal)
- Subject: Re: What does sacrifice mean to President Clinton?
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- Organization: The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
- References: <C16KCo.E45@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <visser.727661764@convex.convex.com>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 03:51:25 GMT
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- In article <visser.727661764@convex.convex.com>
- visser@convex.com (Lance Visser) writes:
-
- >In <C16KCo.E45@news.cso.uiuc.edu> kkopp@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (koppenhoefer kyle cram) writes:
- >
- >
- >+> I agree that sacrifices must be made ( preferibly, several
- >+>congressmen on an alter infront of the Capital ), but higher
- >+>taxes are the WRONG kind of sacrifice. We must reduce what
- >+>government does, and how much it spends. The problem isn't
- >+>that the government doesn't raise enough money: the problem
- >+>IS that it spends too much.
- >
- >+> However, I see TAX INCREASE written all over the President's
- >+>speech, and this will only put us into further economic troubles.
- >
- > Not only tax increase, but spending increases as well.
-
- However much the Republicans want to blame the Congress and however
- much the Democrats want to complain about lack of "leadership" (which
- produces the question of exactly what Tom Foley thinks his job *is*)
- there's noe evidence anybody on either side of the aisle or the mall
- are interested in spending cuts. It would require looking their
- constituents in the eye and saying, "No," something which they are
- not prepared to do and we really aren't prepared to hear.
-
- >As last
- >I understood it, he intends to "grow" out of the deficit by spending
- >federal money.
-
- I swear I heard this during Reagan's term.
-
- > And beyond that there is his "national service (or slavery
- >depending on your politics)"
-
- Indentured servitude is probably the appropriate "It's the other
- side's icky idea" term.
-
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- David Veal Div. of Cont. Ed. Information Services Group UT, Knoxville
- PA146008@utkvm1.utk.edu "Of course the government and the newspapers
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