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- From: kd1hz@anomaly.sbs.com (Michael P. Deignan)
- Subject: Re: OPIN:Slick Willy's Business Team
- Organization: Small Business Systems, Incorporated, Smithfield, RI 02917
- Date: Fri, 01 Jan 1993 20:16:26 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan01.201626.1604@anomaly.sbs.com>
- References: <R6gNwB3w165w@nyxfer.uucp> <1993Jan01.134641.28409@anomaly.sbs.com> <1993Jan1.144714.4221@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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- prs9k@brain.med.virginia.edu (Phil Scarr) writes:
-
- >I think the point that the article is making is that the cabinet LACKS
- >the experience these kinds of people would bring. Their idea being that
- >at least one blue collar worker should be apointed to the cabinet to
- >represent the feelings of the "workers". I think this is REALLY
- >problematic, but I can see their point.
-
-
- I disagree wholeheartedly.
-
- First off, I don't believe that anyone over at Bolshevick Central has
- taken a substantive look at each cabinent member and his/her work background.
- I certainly see no evidence of such an occurance.
-
- Furthermore, I object to term "worker", as it is just another attempt to
- play upon the class envy which permeates the US today. I, too, am a
- "worker" - the difference being that my decisions affect the financial
- well-being of dozens of currently-gainfully-employed individuals who would
- be otherwise scrounging for a meal at the local soup kitchen - rather than
- simply deciding whether Joey or Frankie gets to drive the delivery truck
- this afternoon. A business is composed of a team of people who work together
- to deliver a product, not a class-struggle between the "haves" and "have-
- nots".
-
- While it may be the height of political-correctness for Bill Clinton to
- have hit the streets, find a poor blue-collar or homeless person in
- some major urban center whom he could then appoint to a cabinent
- position, I believe it would be a sad day for America. We do not need a
- Secretary Of The Poor, and certainly this country does not need
- uneducated, untrained individuals controlling the purse strings of
- this country. We've had plenty of them already, have lots of them now
- in Congress, and have gotten nowhere.
-
- MD
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