Re: [CTRL] THE DARK SIDE OF THE GOOD NEWS
-Caveat Lector- YnrChyldzWyld wrote: -Caveat Lector- On Tue, 2 Feb 1999, Sno0wl wrote: This may rankle some on this list, but as the 40-somethings are being dislodged from their corporate niches in favor of the cheaper 20-somethings, even you may, one day, come to appreciate the importance of these issues. I appreciated the importance even before I became one of those dislodged 40-somethings...and I deal with it every day in my job search -- people rave about my resume, my background, my abilities...but when it comes down to PAYING me what I'm worth (and I'm not asking for the high-end of the range), they opt for recent college grads or outsource it to India, Pakistan, or the Phillipines where programmers work for pennies per hour June What do you expect? Under a capitalist economic system it's profit not quality, not experience, not consideration of someone's livelihood. The biggest cost of doing business is labor. If this society lets businessmen continue to operate like this, we'll have a population of aging homeless and yuppie twerps. Joshua2 DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] The JUST (in a way) side of the RE: [CTRL] THE DARK SIDE OF THE GOOD NEWS
-Caveat Lector- Hey, SnowOwl, Looks like all you pro-aborts are finally getting some of your own medicine. With the blood of 38,000,000 plus human beings on your hands (aborted babies - just like Dr. Slepian was "aborted" after the third trimester) --- you now see the same forces closing in on human beings YOU think deserve some protection. Good LUCK with the likes of depraved psychopaths like Clinton, Gore, Gingrich, Robert Rubin, and Alan Greenspan. Looks like you'll have to turn to people like Pat Buchanan, Howard Phillips, Randall Terry, and Phyllis Schlafly if you expect to get any help in protecting this new class of fellow human beings under attack, which do, of course deserve to be protected from the Malthusian demi-gods. Jim Condit Jr. -Original Message- From: Conspiracy Theory Research List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Sno0wl Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 1999 3:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [CTRL] THE DARK SIDE OF THE GOOD NEWS -Caveat Lector- Murray suggests that there may be a downside to the shift of single mothers from welfare to work. No body of research exists to demonstrate that it is good for children when a single mother works, he points out. "Can the U.S. retain its political and social culture," Murray asks, "in the presence of a permanent underclass?" His answer is yes, if it is "sufficiently small." If it is large, he believes, the answer is no. He points out that underclass ethics -- among all races -- are deteriorating and contributing to a coarsening of American life. Source: Charles Murray (American Enterprise Institute), "And Now for the Bad News," Wall Street Journal, February 2, 1999. Another "bad side" of the "good news" is that older women with disabilities are being forced from welfare to work that is essentially life-threatening for them. In a case reported on NPR, a 55 year-old woman with a serious heart condition was forced to take a job cleaning parks. When she went to legal aid to make a complaint about her situation, the legal aid society discovered that Clinton had signed a bill forbidding legal aid societies from defending the rights of welfare complainants who believe they are being denied rights to which they are entitled. Interesting. If benefits are denied you unfairly, you have no right to file a legal complaint! Now it's work or die. This bill is currently being challenged in court by the legal aid societies. This may rankle some on this list, but as the 40-somethings are being dislodged from their corporate niches in favor of the cheaper 20-somethings, even you may, one day, come to appreciate the importance of these issues. sno0wl DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] THE DARK SIDE OF THE GOOD NEWS
-Caveat Lector- CLINTON'S ASTOUNDING BUDGET Advocates of limited government and restrained government spending are reeling at the vastness of President Clinton's proposed fiscal year 2000 budget. With the single exception of 1944 during World War II, never in the history of the U.S. would the federal government grab a greater share of the nation's gross domestic product. o Clinton's budget calls for Washington to seize 20.7 percent of the nation's productive output. o In 1944, the take was 20.9 percent -- and that fell the following year to 20.4 percent of gross domestic product (GDP). o At the height of the Korean War in 1952, the federal share was 19 percent; and in both 1969, during the Vietnam War, and in the Cold War era of 1981, the stake was 19.7 percent. o Moreover, proposed changes in the tax laws would result in a five-year net tax increase of $45.8 billion.-- as some tax increases totaling $82 billion would be offset by a few tax breaks aimed at favored constituencies. Critics deplore the tax-bracket creep that is the result of prosperity. As incomes rise, taxpayers are steadily pushed upward into steeply progressive tax rates. Meanwhile, federal spending increases. Budget experts at the Cato Institute have identified nearly $150 billion in new spending during the next five years. With inflation running below 1 percent in 1998, the budget projects hefty increases of more than 4 percent during both 2000 and 2001 for domestic discretionary spending. Sources: Editorial, "The Lewinsky Budget," Wall Street Journal; and editorial, "Tax and Spend, Tax and Spend," Washington Times, both February 2, 1999. For more on the Budget for 2000 http://www.ncpa.org/pd/budget/budget.htm THE DARK SIDE OF THE GOOD NEWS The U.S. is awash in good news: crime is down, welfare rolls are plunging, employment rates are high and births among teenagers are declining. But American Enterprise Institute analyst Charles Murray has been taking a look at the state of America's underclasses. He uses three indicators to examine the condition of those at the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder -- criminality, young male dropouts from the labor force and out-of-wedlock births among young women. Here is a brief description of what he found: o Crime is down because so many of the chronically criminal are locked up -- as demonstrated by the fact that if we were to imprison people in 1997 at the same rate we did in 1980, when crime hit an all-time high, there would have been about 1.3 million fewer inmates. o Among 16- to 24-year-old black males who are not in school, the proportion who are not working or looking for work has risen from an average 17 percent during the 1980s to 20 percent in 1992, then to 23 percent in 1997. o While headlines have trumpeted the fall in out-of-wedlock births per 1,000 unmarried women, the illegitimacy ratio -- that is, the percentage of babies who are born to unmarried women -- has been flat since 1994, at 32 percent. Murray suggests that there may be a downside to the shift of single mothers from welfare to work. No body of research exists to demonstrate that it is good for children when a single mother works, he points out. "Can the U.S. retain its political and social culture," Murray asks, "in the presence of a permanent underclass?" His answer is yes, if it is "sufficiently small." If it is large, he believes, the answer is no. He points out that underclass ethics -- among all races -- are deteriorating and contributing to a coarsening of American life. Source: Charles Murray (American Enterprise Institute), "And Now for the Bad News," Wall Street Journal, February 2, 1999. For more on Out-of-Wedlock Births http://www.ncpa.org/pd/social/social5.html DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email:
Re: [CTRL] THE DARK SIDE OF THE GOOD NEWS
-Caveat Lector- Murray suggests that there may be a downside to the shift of single mothers from welfare to work. No body of research exists to demonstrate that it is good for children when a single mother works, he points out. "Can the U.S. retain its political and social culture," Murray asks, "in the presence of a permanent underclass?" His answer is yes, if it is "sufficiently small." If it is large, he believes, the answer is no. He points out that underclass ethics -- among all races -- are deteriorating and contributing to a coarsening of American life. Source: Charles Murray (American Enterprise Institute), "And Now for the Bad News," Wall Street Journal, February 2, 1999. Another "bad side" of the "good news" is that older women with disabilities are being forced from welfare to work that is essentially life-threatening for them. In a case reported on NPR, a 55 year-old woman with a serious heart condition was forced to take a job cleaning parks. When she went to legal aid to make a complaint about her situation, the legal aid society discovered that Clinton had signed a bill forbidding legal aid societies from defending the rights of welfare complainants who believe they are being denied rights to which they are entitled. Interesting. If benefits are denied you unfairly, you have no right to file a legal complaint! Now it's work or die. This bill is currently being challenged in court by the legal aid societies. This may rankle some on this list, but as the 40-somethings are being dislodged from their corporate niches in favor of the cheaper 20-somethings, even you may, one day, come to appreciate the importance of these issues. sno0wl DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
