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- From: wdstarr@athena.mit.edu (William December Starr)
- Subject: Craig...
- In-Reply-To: csmith@cis.ohio-state.edu (craig edward smith)
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- Organization: Northeastern Law, Class of '93
- References: <1jic1jINN7uk@tortoise.cis.ohio-state.edu> <1993Jan21.000113.3405@Princeton.EDU> <1jmi2sINNk68@iguana.cis.ohio-state.edu>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 14:37:28 GMT
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- In article <1jmi2sINNk68@iguana.cis.ohio-state.edu>,
- csmith@cis.ohio-state.edu (craig edward smith) said:
-
- > > > I am not upset about routine overdraft protection. But those whose
- > > > overdrafts amounted to ten of thousands, well beyond their
- > > > "line-of-credit" is plainly irresponsible. [craig edward smith]
- > >
- > > No, voting for an budget which contains agricultural subsidies
- > > amounting to tens of BILLIONS which amount to welfare for the
- > > obscenely rich is irresponsible. Overdrafting in the tens of
- > > thousands doesn't even compare. Worry about the direct things, and
- > > not the side issues. [David Marc Nieporent]
- >
- > So you admit that congress spends irresponsibly? (Don't make me cite
- > welfare, medicare/medicaid, and social security fraud examples) The
- > house bank was symptomatic. And believe me when I tell you that if I
- > were to overdraw my bank account in the amount of tens of thousands of
- > dollars with a wink from the bank, both I and the bank would be in
- > *big* *big* *big* trouble.
-
- Craig, can you cite one posting by David Marc Nieporent in which he
- _denied_ that the congress spends irresponsibly? If not, you're looking
- an awful lot like a desperate and/or incompetent attorney who tries to
- make the other side's expert witness look bad on the stand by asking him
- something like: "So, Doctor, you ADMIT that you've been practicing
- medicine for over twenty years and have examined literally HUNDREDS of
- people with knee injuries similar to the one my client has, isn't that
- right? And you further ADMIT that you are on the teaching staff at
- Harvard Medical School and regularly lecture and instruct on the topic
- of knee injuries, don't you? Don't try to deny it, Doctor -- it's all
- there in the record!"
-
- And for all your yelling, you _still_ haven't explained how the House
- Banking "scandal" is symptomatic of anything, or why it's a scandal, or
- where any taxpayer money was misused, or how it's irresponsible to write
- a check that you know won't bounce, or how differences between banking
- services available to you and those available to congressmen constitute
- or are evidence of any sort of irresponsible behavior or wrongdoing by
- any congressmen.
-
- Free advice from a third-year law student, Craig: don't ever try to
- become a prosecutor. At least, not unless I get to be the defense
- attorney.
-
- -- William December Starr <wdstarr@athena.mit.edu>
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