Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!zehntel!dual!amd!decwrl!decvax!cca!ima!ism780b!jim From: jim@ism780b.UUCP Newsgroups: net.philosophy Subject: Re: Were not drifting; were being tugged Message-ID: <43@ism780b.UUCP> Date: Wed, 8-Aug-84 00:20:53 EDT Article-I.D.: ism780b.43 Posted: Wed Aug 8 00:20:53 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 4-Aug-84 01:33:37 EDT Lines: 28 Nf-ID: #R:hogpd:-36600:ism780b:27500031:000:1604 Nf-From: ism780b!jim Jul 31 11:11:00 1984 > I like people who like to give to other people too. I also like to give > things to other people. What I don't like are people who *make* me give > things to other people. What about the people who make you make you pay for the invasion of Grenada, the attempted assassination of Castro, the overthrow of Allende, the Australian coup, support for the overthrow of Nicaragua, more money for military marching bands than goes to the rest of the nation's musicians, vastly inflated prices for nuts, bolts, tanks, and all other forms of military hardware, military aid to the El Salvadoran, Guatamalan, and Honduran generals, 30000 nuclear warheads, 17000 more scheduled in the next 5 years, MX missiles, cruise missiles, Pershing missiles, B-1 bombers, M-1 tanks, etc.? What about the people who make you pay for massive advertising campaigns for products you don't want or need, for their lobbying and wining and dining and bribing of politicians or buying of politicians through massive campaign contributions, all to allow them to continue to pollute your environment and to pass laws that protect them from their precious free-market competition? There is a tax for these things in everything you buy. The fact that it doesn't say "tax" and "government" all over it doesn't mean it isn't there. You think you have worked hard for what you have, but your attitude is like the programmer who slaves to find the optimal intruction sequence for the inner loop of his bubble sort. You just have no concept of the costs inherent in the way the system is currently structured. -- Jim Balter (ima!jim)