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- From: jerry@cs.mcgill.ca (Gerald (Jerry) KUCH)
- Subject: Re: PC, Redneck President, and other bad news. (was Re: Amiga 1200)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov7.221949.6127@cs.mcgill.ca>
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- Organization: SOCS - McGill University, Montreal, Canada
- References: <1992Nov4.202447.10362@ra.msstate.edu> <36732@cbmvax.commodore.com> <1992Nov6.000536.22326@ra.msstate.edu>
- Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 22:19:49 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov6.000536.22326@ra.msstate.edu> skip@tacky.cs.olemiss.edu (Skip Sauls) writes:
- >In article <36732@cbmvax.commodore.com> daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes:
- >>In article <1992Nov4.202447.10362@ra.msstate.edu> skip@tacky.cs.olemiss.edu (Skip Sauls) writes:
- >>
- >Funny, I don't seem to recall saying anything about supporting Bush. If I'm
- >anti-Clinton, does that make me automatically pro-Bush? Hell, I'm pretty
- >liberal for a white-boy from the South: I don't believe in deities, I support
- >a woman's right to have an abortion, I don't believe in censorship, and I'd
- >love to see a lot less government involvement in people's private lives. But
-
- This was something that Reagan and Bush harped about extensively in the early
- 1980s during a period when they set out to help "mom and pop businesses tied
- up in government red tape." Of course it made the most sense to appoint to
- the head of the Task Force on Regulatory Relief a Texas oil tycoon and former
- head of the CIA... none other than George Bush. Also during this period
- corporations lobbied Congress to the extent of $1 billion dollars in order to
- sell deregulation to the public. Then Reagan decided that the person most
- suited to heading OSHA (which presumably is interfering in private lives
- too much already) a contractor who had received 48 safety violations form
- OSHA in the past. The EPA was taken over by a Colorado politican who had
- resisted toxics regulation, fought controls on strip-mining and obstructed
- various pieces of state hazardous waste regulation. When Reagan deregulated
- buses, trains and airlines, 3763 communities lost interstate bus service,
- 1200 towns lost rail service and 150 airlines went bankrupt.
-
- All the while, as Reagan harped about regulation "holding back free
- enterprise," polls showed that only 5% of the public thought that workplace
- and consumer protection regulations were too strict.
-
- Although it may not have been your intention with your reference to "private
- lives," you've conjured up images of a lot of the rhetoric used to justify
- inanity like the above.
-
- >>Get a clue. If you're comparing IQs, the Bush/Quayle administration set an
- >>all time low (its only close competition was the Reagan/Bush administration).
- >>I'm proud to have helped to elect a President and Vice President with at least
- >>above average intelligence (you don't get to be a Rhodes Scholar by being a
- >>"stupid hillbilly").
- >
- >Again, where have I said anything about supporting Bush or Quayle? If IQ is
- >so important, why don't we have nuclear scientists and other smart folks in
- >office instead of a bunch of asshole lawyers? And Dave, Ole Miss has never
- >had the reputation of being a great school except maybe at the state level,
- >but we've had a few Rhodes Scholars.
-
- Jimmy Carter was a nuclear engineer. And with respect to Ole Miss, wasn't
- Clinton at Georgetown when he received his Rhodes Scholarship? Deserved
- or not, its reputation is hardly terrible.
-
- A technically literate and educated political elite is something that is
- growing more overdue. I once had an instructor who harped against technical
- specialization in education, claiming that industry was suffering and that
- glorious success stories like Chrysler were brought about by broad minded
- and generally educated individuals like Lee Iacocca. The value and
- necessity of a well balanced and varied education aside, I'd hardly call
- a corrupt technocrat whose company was saved from the grave by federal
- loan guarantees and some interestingly loosened safety regulations that
- enabled new cost cutting measures that were previously illegal a glorious
- success story... just a thought.
-
- >>Politically ignorant sounds more like it.
- >
- >Oh no, flamed by an Amiga god! What am I to do? Cancel the A4000 order
- >that I placed today? No, I forgot, you don't fool with that sort of mid-range
- >non-SCSI crap, do you? Too bad you can't seem to get anything that you are
- >working on out the door in a timely manner.
-
- Ouch... cheap shot.
-
- >
- >>Dave Haynie / Commodore Technology, High-End Amiga Systems Design (cool stuff)
- >> "The Crew That Never Rests" {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!daveh BIX: hazy
- >> SCIENCE: "I'll believe it when I see it"
- >> RELIGION: "I'll see it when I believe it"
- >
- >Skip Sauls
- >skip@tacky.cs.olemiss.edu
- >
- >
- >
-
-
- --
- Jerry Kuch (jerry@cs.mcgill.ca) | Author of "Death By Boredom" Vols I - IX
- "I was wrong to play God. Life is precious, not a thing to be toyed with.
- Now take out that brain and flush it down the toilet."
- --- M. Burns "Treehouse of Horror II"
-