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    about:   -Party for the Rich???  "Class envy"?:
 
 Funny how the Republicans are so much against paying $15/mo 
 for welfare moms when they are so much in favor of Rich
 Boy welfare, isn't it?  Care to consider this question?
 
 What is welfare for the Rich?  We have a farmer down the
 road who got $15 million last year in crop subsidies.  
 A Canadian mining company recently bought a billion dollar
 gold mine for a few thousand using the obsolete Mining Act
 the Republicans fought Clinton to keep.  Taxpayer money
 to loggers when WE build their logging roads for them was
 black-and-white partisan for welfare loggers.  Welfare
 cowboys who get below market grazing leases on public
 land.  In the case of welfare logging, mining, and grazing
 on public land, these were ALL fought for by republicans
 under the guise of "private property rights", and were
 the main agenda of the League of Private Property Voters,
 the strongest arm of Wise Use, the well funded anti-
 environmental coalition.  All this, highly partisan, supported 
 by Republicans.  I can supply the details, the voting 
 records, and the League's own propaganda on request.
 
 Rich Boy Welfare?   Consider this.
 
 A hypothetical?  If their were a Party for the Rich, how 
 would THEY vote on it?  And on environment, and unions, 
 and Motor Voter, and minimum wage, progressive taxation, 
 and.....  Think these over.   Answer those questions.....
 
 Wake up people.  Limbaugh may have trained the dittoheads to 
 squeal; "CLASS ENVY!!! CLASS WARFARE!!!", when they hear words
 like that, but mind-filter propaganda and brainwashing will
 not change the answers to those questions.  Nor does talking
 nor thinking about reality imply class envy.  Sure, Limbaaaah 
 has trained us to blindly not consider the question.  Fight 
 it I say, resist it.  Think about those questions.  
 Unless you earn over $200K, any (imaginary?) Party for the 
 Rich Boys is out to get you.  Simple economics.  Like Duh!
 Think, people.  Think.....
 
 Robert Benson  wrote to All on 11 Sep 95  09:41:49 
 
 r> From: Robert Benson <rbenson@igc.apc.org>
 r> Subject: Corp.Welfare Model Laws
 
 I am in no way affiliated with the Green Party, they are
 a leftist group.  I post this only to refute Limbaaah's
 argument that LIBRILLS like welfare.
 
 r> Four model laws to curb corporate welfare abuse at the state 
 r> and local levels are proposed in a new 24 page pamphlet 
 r> written by Professor Robert Benson, Loyola Law School, Los 
 r> Angeles, and published by the National Lawyers Guild of L.A.: 
 r> GETTING BUSINESS OFF THE PUBLIC DOLE: STATE AND LOCAL MODEL 
 r> LAWS TO CURB CORPORATE WELFARE ABUSE.  Benson is a member of 
 r> the Green Party.  Corporate welfare is defined to include not 
 r> only tax subsidies to corporations but environmental 
 r> externalities that corporations impose upon the public and 
 r> future generations.  
 
 "Environmental externalities" is economic-talk for environmental 
 subsidies.  For example, The Rich Boys who would rather 
 not consider cleaning up their own mess as a valid cost of 
 doing business may dump waste into the air, the ground,
 the water.  "Free waste disposal".  But in reality, it
 is a subsidy borne either by the environment, or the taxpayer
 who later has to clean it up, or put up with burning eyes,
 no fishing, cancer, ugliness, or whatever...   Hardly free.
 
 Rich Boys want us to build their roads, give them cash
 for crops they didn't grow, give them mining land at
 1860 prices, clean up their messes, on and on....  
 
 We can hardly blame the Rich Boys for wanting subsidies,
 nor for resisting cleaning up their own mess as a cost
 of doing business.  Nor can we blame them for pushing
 sometimes expensive propaganda to get these things from us.
 That is their job, after all.  --  It is Joe Public's job 
 to either pay these subsidies or to reject them.  Vote.
 
 
"All that was required of them was a primitive     .---.        .------------ 
 patriotism which could be appealed to whenever   /     \ __  /    ------ 
 it was necessary to make them accept longer     / /    \(  )/    ----- 
 working hours or less wealth.   And even       //////  ' \/ `   --- 
 when they became discontented, as they        //// / //:    : --- 
 sometimes did, their discontent led nowhere, // /   / /`    '-- 
 because, being with only Company ideas, they//         //..\\  
 could only focus it on Company    =========/==========UU====UU============= 
 scapegoats.  The rebellious ones only fought Company  '//||\\` 
 enemies.  The source of these evils invariably          ''`` 
 escaped their notice."   [Apologies to G. Orwell]     
 
    With the light of Truth on loan from GOD...
    --Douglas Bashford, also on loan from GOD.
                bashford@lgn.com