Harry, What rank and file worker do you know who can give $5,000 much less $10,000 or $20,000? That is the difference between people who consider the elite to be rank and file. The NYTimes wasn't fooled and called it all corporate money. Any Democrat who is going to get that kind of money will generally get it from someone like the Unions which will make the Unions even more of a target for the rank and file Republicans. I'm for the Unions. They have made it possible for the movie business to satisfy the deficit in exports for years. Today there is less since the Unions are weaker and dealing with independant producers who don't produce as much and high quality a product as the old studios did. Everybody gets less and the product is diminished except the money is more available to the few investors but even that is more speculative than ever. But you can forget the music business. It is hopeless. The lowering of standards and the lack of Unions and large companies has created a nightmare in a profession that is more fragile initially than the movie industry. But you live there and you know all of this already, which confuses me about what you advocate considering your background in radio.
By the way, what was your "warning" about GWB? I think he is a conservative purely and simply and that we are in for a ride that could lead us into a depression. Isn't he making the same mistakes that Hoover made? Perhaps you economists could tell me how well tax reductions and gifts to the wealthy while reducing public programs worked during the Depression. Did they help? I keep remembering that Democrats who advocated half of the things that Republicans do politically beaten to death. It wasn't a Democrat who opened China or advocated Detente with Russia. If they had they would have been called unpatriotic socialists out to kill the country. And if Clinton had brought in a head of the NEA as competant as this one he would have been beaten by every fundamentalist in the nation. Republicans are not supposed to know about those things so they sneak them by or, in the case of Russia and China, they have the reputation of being hard on Communism so they aren't watched as closely by the Right Wing. Got to go, Ray Evans Harrell, artistic director The Magic Circle Opera Repertory Ensemble, Inc. and Training [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Harry Pollard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ray Evans Harrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 4:13 PM Subject: Re: Election - (was a "A more rational economics") > > Raymond, > > The democrats are finally surfacing again. The results must have been a shock. > > Karen, I'm glad to say, is back with us with a subdued, but thoughtful > piece, which I enjoyed. > > I hope she read the Economist bit I listed. > > The reason the corporate money going to the Republicans is a smaller > proportion of the total is they collect so much through their grass roots > organization. That's where their money builds up. > > This was somewhat confirmed by a democratic leader, trying to put a good > face on the disaster, talking about finance from the bottom. He told the > press 'We have to go after contributions from the rank and file. We need > more $5,000, $10,000, $20,000 contributions.' > > Well, the Republicans have been getting them for some time. > > Which leads to that interesting statistic about the proportion of corporate > money. > > Harry > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------- > > > Ray wrote: > > >Harry you said: > > > > > Several weeks ago I made the statement the that a greater proportion of > > > corporate money goes to the Democratic treasure chest than goes to its > > > Republican equivalent. > > > > > >Not according to the NYTimes last year. They said that 70% of all > >corporate donationsl went to the Republicans. > > > >REH > > > > > > > >--- > >Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. > >Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > >Version: 6.0.416 / Virus Database: 232 - Release Date: 11/6/2002 > > ****************************** > Harry Pollard > Henry George School of LA > Box 655 > Tujunga CA 91042 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Tel: (818) 352-4141 > Fax: (818) 353-2242 > ******************************* > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.416 / Virus Database: 232 - Release Date: 11/6/2002 >
