poli-sci@ucbvax.ARPA (10/15/84)
From: JoSH <JoSH@RUTGERS.ARPA>
Poli-Sci Digest Mon 15 Oct 84 Volume 4 Number 93
"The illegal we do immediately; the unconstitutional
takes a little longer." --Henry Kissinger
Contents: Homework
Where is the bread buttered?
Rubber baby buggy bumpers
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Date: 5 Oct 1984 08:15:02-EDT
From: sde@Mitre-Bedford
Subject: Home Work
Assuming that work is paid by the piece, whether for knitting or
data entry, who cares how many strokes are used? Monitoring thus
is totally unnecessary.
David sde@mitre-bedford
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Date: Mon Oct 8 22:38:05 1984
From: mclure@sri-prism
Subject: where your bread is buttered
I find it most amusing that so many of these young, liberal,
whipper-snappers at colleges and universities are always so
pro-Democrat no matter how idiotic the Democratic candidate and his
party's platform.
The amusement is not in the above statement. Rather, it is in what
happens to them many years later. Some subset of them will make it to
the big-time and get excellent salaries. Then, they get to see closeup
up to 50% of their salary being siphoned off their paycheck.
Do they ever change their tune then! They see their paycheck
vanishing, their being unable to give their families what they want,
and boy do they do an about-face!
The Republicans have been the only major party to say that taxing
people at such rates is wrong. It is especially wrong to then take
that money and give it to some welfare mother who just keeps having
more and more illegitimate babies.
Stuart
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Date: Mon Oct 8 22:49:08 1984
From: mclure@sri-prism
Subject: 3 predictions
First prediction:
Reagan will be re-elected in a landslide.
Second prediction:
Reagan will apply the full anti-FDR anti-New-Deal
thrust that this country has needed for 50 years.
Remember that FDR wanted to dismantle much of the
New Deal but he died before he had the chance.
Keynesian economics, in my mind, is pretty much
discredited now.
Third prediction:
We will not see the full effects of Reagan's changes
for up to 10 years after they are put in force. Just
as FDR's implementation of Keynesian 'deficit spending'
took 50 years to bring this country to the nadir of the
Carter economic disaster, so will the Reagan anti-FDR
take many years to fully show its effect.
Stuart
[If I may comment: (p.1.) I tend to agree. (p.2.) It ain't that easy.
The Republicans probably won't get control of the House. The polity
has come to regard its transfer payments as rights, and has become
sophisticated enough to defend them tenaciously. The new right may
be able to slow the process, but the inherent instability in the
political process will ultimately win out. It may interest you that
major economic think-tanks (eg Wharton) are beginning to predict
high inflation, even if Reagan wins. (p.3.) FDR was really just the
first break into the limelight of socialist ideas which had been
gaining strength from the turn of the century. However, the 50
years since have been a tale of continued political expansion of
those programs -- they didn't just happen once and then take their
effect half a century later. Reagan is very much a corresponding
break into the political limelight; but it will take another 50
years of constant political pressure to get a sane government--
and it won't happen. --JoSH]
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Date: Thursday, 11 October 1984 23:47:36 EDT
From: Hank.Walker@cmu-cs-unh.arpa
Subject: advertising big bumpers
A while back, a discussion on regulation touched on the fact that most auto
manufacturers cut their bumper quality when regulation was lifted. But Ford
has not, and advertises the fact that its cars qualify for lower insurance
rates because of this. I just saw a rather amusing TV commercial for
Escort, showing it bounce off of cars, and trucks, and then bump into a
building with a cut to a building being dynamited. So companies don't
always do the stupid thing. But after reading Iaccoca's Autobiography
exerpt, I'm probably never going to buy a Ford again (I own one).
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