It was the Democrat spokesman who gave those figures. Do you really believe that Republicans are all rich and Democrats are all poor? Not on your Nellie.
Who got the most corporate money (obviously the Republicans) is not an issue. The point is they got a large amount of money from their "grass roots". The Democrats got much less, for they don't seem to have cultivated a grass roots. Warm bodies at the polls has been their goal. It's biting them now.
Which is what the Democratic Leader was referring to.
INDEPENDENT FILMS
At a recent Oscar ceremony, all the winners were independents, so perhaps you are wrong. Independent films often put up a good show at all the awards shows.
FRAGILE MUSIC BUSINESS
Are you suggesting that the recording companies are not large? They are powerful enough not to give their artists much of the money they earn. In fact, they have to go on tour to earn some money. They don't get it from the recording companies.
MY WARNING
My warning about Bush over many months was essentially not to assume he is a dumbo. Yet, at times the reaction against him was almost vitriolic.
Democrat friends - never underestimate your enemy. I told you he was a negotiator - an advocate of win-win. The latest Security Council decision is a prime example of this. He backed down on a couple of things and finished up with what he wanted. Every one of them voted "Aye". Incredible!
HE"S A CONSERVATIVE
You complain he is a conservative (the US kind). But as the Economist said (approximately) soon after his election: 'He came to power as a conservative. He's not trying to hide anything. Expect him to act like a conservative.'
DEPRESSION
Bush inherited a recession. But it could easily become a depression. Just think about it. Economists not only don't know why the recession started - they don't know how or why the boom continued for so long.
With regard to the tax cut - which is good anyway - this is Keynes 101. However, Clinton brought in a tax increase that Republicans said was the largest in peacetime history - yet it didn't squash the continuing boom. Maybe that's Keynes 99.
The fact is that neither Republicans, nor Democrats know what to do. Tax cuts and interest rate changes are pretty silly - perhaps intended only to relieve an anxious constituency that doesn't know any better.
I don't either, but I do know what the problem is. And it's pretty scary.
HARD ON COMMUNISM
It was Nixon who went to China - not a Democrat. I would make a far-out prediction that in Bush's second term (if?) he'll make a rapprochement with Cuba. It depends on how politically safe his brother is in Florida - but I think he could do it.
There you are. I'm on the hook, swinging in the wind.
Harry
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Ray wrote:
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
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