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- From: bakken@cs.arizona.edu (Dave Bakken)
- Newsgroups: misc.invest
- Subject: Re: Act Now to Fight the Deficit
- Message-ID: <30540@optima.cs.arizona.edu>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 18:20:47 GMT
- References: <1993Jan25.193802.11812@adobe.com> <Jan.26.11.30.49.1993.29968@remus.rutgers.edu>
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- In article <Jan.26.11.30.49.1993.29968@remus.rutgers.edu> clong@remus.rutgers.edu (Chris Long) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan25.193802.11812@adobe.com>, Gordon Hamachi writes:
- >
- >> by Harry Figgie, and it scares the hell out of me. According to
- >> Figgie, the most likely results of inaction on the deficit are:
- >
- >> A catastrophic market panic
- >> Hyperinflation
- >> 20% of American jobs gone
- >> Social Security payments cut or eliminated
- >
- >If Figgie didn't say something like this, he wouldn't sell any books,
- >would he?
-
- Figgie and the co-author, Arizona economics prof Gerald Swanson,
- have given away all profits to charity. Figgie is not some
- merchant of doom but rather an industrialist who has felt
- a patriotic call to warn his fellow citizens of what is going
- on. Both Figgie and Swanson were heavily involved in the
- Grace Commission.
-
- So your cynisism is unjustified here. I myself am always
- skeptical of merchants of doom, I just see no way that
- we'll pay off our debt in any realistic terms, especially
- if we don't start doing it very seriously this spring.
- --
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