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- From: dos@major.panix.com (Dave O'Shea)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh
- Subject: Re: Charities in the '80's (was Whining bastards)
- Message-ID: <P8aqwB2w165w@major.panix.com>
- Date: Fri, 01 Jan 93 21:53:24 EST
- References: <1992Dec31.212537.23809@rchland.ibm.com>
- Organization: Department of Redundancy Department
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- jdahl@rchland.vnet.ibm.com (Jared Dahl) writes:
-
- > In article <1992Dec31.192617.27344@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, sborders@nyx.cs.du.e
- > |> Hmmmm. Looks like a *few billion* 'points of light' to me. Face it: the
- > |> Eighties *worked*. The rich got richer, *and* the poor got richer.
- >
- > This is the stupiest thing I have ever seen posted on the
- > net. The POOR GOT RICHER? Go tell that to all of the
- > GM workers who lost their jobs, all of the steel mill
- > employees. Tell it to the homeless and those trapped
- > on welfare. They'll laugh in your face.
-
- Statistics don't apply to individuals; GM, specifically, is a case of
- incompetent management having an adversarial relationship with it's
- incompetent labor force.
-
- > Not only did the poor get poorer, the middle class joined
- > the poor. Check it out. Record numbers of people slipped
- > below the poverty line during the eighties.
-
- Every reliable statistic shows that the nation, as a whole, had a
- nice-sized jump in it's standard of living. Some statistics can be
- misinterpreted to show the opposite, though: Idealogues give you half
- the story "record numbers of people joined the ranks of the unemployed",
- while not telling you that the population increased at a higher rate,
- and those unemployed tended to stay there for a shorted period of time.
-
- > We're all poor anyway, thanks to VOODOO ECONOMICS and
- > the Reagan-induced NATIONAL DEBT!
-
- Hehe. Speak for yourself. I just bought a new car, and I'll be sending
- several thousand off to the jackals in DC as a result of the profits
- I've made on my investments. Hey, better to have 'em working for the
- government than to have to step over them on the street.
-
- Funny, all my friends did very well in the eighties (and continue to do
- pretty good). Maybe it's you?
-
-
-
- --
- "To call something 'Public' is to define it as filthy, inefficient and
- dangerous. The public toilet is the epitome of social spending."
- - P.J. O'Rourke
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