Re: Oh, BTW: Re: How some people claim conservatives are deliberately destroying America
> An immediate/short term way to make everything hunky-dory and avoid all > pain for everyone? I don't see one. I don't think there is one. > > Long term? Remind the "public servants" on Goat Hill in Montgomery that > their job is to serve the *public*, not ALFA, Paul Hubbard, etc. > Except...the people want services and don't want to pay for them, and refuse to accept that you can't have it both ways. The public has to bear some of the responsibility for the coming disaster, too. They have to stop listening to anti-tax demagogues who genuinely want to shut government down and don't care who it hurts. Taxes aren't fun, but if you do entirely without them, things get even worse. Tom Beck www.prydonians.org www.mercerjewishsingles.org "I always knew I'd see the first man on the Moon. I never dreamed I'd see the last." - Dr Jerry Pournelle ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Oh, BTW: Re: How some people claim conservatives are deliberately destroying America
At 01:54 PM 10/21/03 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Yes. Pretty much the way it has been done for at least 102 years (since > the current state constitution was written by said interests to keep > themselves in power) and probably for the past 184 years (since > statehood). People are sick and tired of it, and sick and tired of > throwing good money after bad. Unlike what has been suggested in earlier > posts here, the 2-1 vote against the tax increase was not something > orchestrated by out-of-state interests who want Alabama to become a > third-world country (any more than the people brought in from out of state > to support it had sufficient influence to get it passed), but a response > from the people. > Fine. Then what is the people's solution to the absolute disaster that is befalling Alabama? An immediate/short term way to make everything hunky-dory and avoid all pain for everyone? I don't see one. I don't think there is one. Long term? Remind the "public servants" on Goat Hill in Montgomery that their job is to serve the *public*, not ALFA, Paul Hubbard, etc. -- Ronn! :) ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
