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If you don't document it then it never
happened. This is the old Reagan doctrine where they spend you
under the table and then you can have "real man" kinds of prisons and not that
wimpy welfare stuff like Finland. Here is a document from Sam
Houston the Bill Clinton of the 1820s and the founder of GWB's beloved home
state. Could Bush be revenge? REH
CHEROKEE PHOENIX AND INDIANS' ADVOCATE Newspaper
Wednesday,
July
29, 1829
Vol. II, no. 17
Page 2, col. 5b-
Page 3, col. 1a
Governor HOUSTON.--
The late mysterious conduct of this gentleman, in
resigning his office,
and leaving his family, &c. has been a subject of
much animadversion.
Public curiosity has been aroused and various rumors
and evil surmisings
set afloat. Any thing, therefore, in relation to the
matter, in which
confidence can be placed, will not fail to be interesting.
A letter to one of the Editors of this paper from a gentleman
of
respectability in Covington, Tennessee, dated 14th May, says,
"Governor HOUSTON, passed down the Mississippi a few days since in
the
steamer Red River, for the Cherokee Nation of Indians, in the
Arkansas
Territory.
He says he never wishes to see the face of a
white man again-that when
he gets to Red River, his cloth coat which he now
wears, is to be
destroyed, and he assumes the Indian costume throughout.
He is taking on a parcel of rifles, and says his policy will be
by
example, to inculcate peace and civilization among the Indians,
and
dissuade them from warring against one another, and particularly
to
bring about a peace between the Cherokees and Osages;
that he will
endeavor to cultivate a friendly feeling amongst them
towards the United
States. The cause, or causes which have produced
the unhappy separation of
the Governor, from his lady, and resignation
of office of Governor, are a
profound secret, not known to his most
intimate friends. They are by solemn
agreement of himself and lady,
never to be divulged.
This information
comes from a gentleman of the first veracity, and who
passed in the same boat
from Nashville as far as here, with the
Governor, and who has long resided in
Nashville, and who is well
acquainted with the whole affair.
The
Governor was many years ago, when agent of the Cherokees, adopted by
a
celebrated chief of the nation, JOLLY, as his son.
To him he will
repair, and no doubt be well received.--Raleigh Star.
The more you change, the more it stays the
same
Ray Evans Harrell
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 6:25
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Subject: [Futurework] Now you see it Now
you don't
Should we be suspicious? These are the guys who love secrecy
and ‘privacy’. Just another
example of underfunding?
And the war hasn’t even started yet.
KWC
U.S.
Drops Report On Mass Layoffs
Data
Helped States Track Patterns of Industrial Demise
By
Kirstin Downey, Washington Post Staff Writer. Thursday, January 2,
2003
Citing
a shortage of money, the Bureau
of Labor Statistics
will stop publishing information about factory closings across the country, a
decision that some state officials and labor leaders are protesting. The monthly Labor Department analysis,
known as the Mass
Layoffs Statistics
report, detailed where workplaces with more than 50 employees closed and what
kinds of workers were affected.
"We
have finite resources," said Mason
M. Bishop,
deputy assistant secretary for the Labor Department's Employment and Training
Administration, which has been paying about $6.6 million a year for the BLS
report. The department made the
announcement on Christmas Eve, as a note on its November -- and final --
report.
The
report said U.S. employers initiated 2,150 mass layoffs in November, with
workers in manufacturing most affected. About 240,000 workers lost their jobs,
it
said.
Bishop
said that the Labor
Department had only $30 million for its dislocated-worker demonstration
project,
and that it could no longer afford the report. "We believe we need to be
funding programs that get people back to work," he said. Some state officials, who help compile
data for the report, criticized the decision. They
said the monthly reports helped them steer unemployed people to jobs in new
industries.
"In
the current recession, MLS
data have increased in value and are being followed and evaluated more
closely,"
Catherine B. Leapheart, president of the National Association of State Work
Force Agencies, wrote in a letter to Labor Secretary Elaine L. Chao. "The
states have come to rely on this information as an economic indicator and a
tool for operational decisions on service delivery and funding allocations for
dislocated-worker programs."
State
officials around the country said they were surprised and unhappy to hear the
report was canceled. "In these times when the economy is in
transition, knowing what's going on and who it's going on to, is
critical,"
said Harry E. Payne Jr., chairman of the North Carolina Employment Security
Commission. "It's an axiom of
human nature that you focus on what you can measure. Now they are taking away
a measure."
Payne
said North Carolina has been hard hit by plant closings, including those by
textile and fiber-optics companies that have moved jobs overseas. He said the
program was the only national, standardized source of data tracking plant
closings, allowing states to compare their manufacturing layoffs with those of
other states.
"To
give it up is just awful," said Beverly Gumola of the Illinois Department of
Employment Security. State officials use the data to determine "which
occupations are going kaput," she said.
Christine
L. Owens,
director of public policy for the AFL-CIO, whose member unions have been hard
hit by the loss of manufacturing jobs, said
eliminating the report is
an example
of a "let-them-eat-cake approach"
by the Bush administration.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63950-2003Jan1.html
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