[OPE-L:6131] Re: Re: Re: Re: possible ways out of the 'crisis'?

From: Fred B. Moseley (fmoseley@mtholyoke.edu)
Date: Thu Nov 01 2001 - 10:12:41 EST


Yes, I meant I have a different point of view from the typical
Southerner, not a different point of view from you.  I am sure we agree on
this issue.

Comradely,
Fred


On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Patrick L. Mason wrote:

> Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2001 09:42:58 -0500
> From: Patrick L. Mason <pmason@garnet.acns.fsu.edu>
> Reply-To: ope-l@galaxy.csuchico.edu
> To: ope-l@galaxy.csuchico.edu
> Subject: [OPE-L:6130] Re: Re: Re: possible ways out of the 'crisis'?
> 
> 
> Fred:
> 
> Thanks for your postings with actual data. The numbers help clarify things. 
> I'll respond in a bit.
> 
> As a fellow Southerner, I, too, do not think that it is a good thing that 
> America has been Southernized!!!
> 
> I was merely point out that the political economic ideology and theology of 
> the South has now become over-arching framework for all American political 
> rhetoric and public policy.
> 
> peace, patrick
> 
> 
> At 01:19 AM 11/1/01 -0500, you wrote:
> 
> >On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Patrick L. Mason wrote:
> >
> > > Jerry:
> > >
> > > Conservatives really aren't interested in whether tax cuts generate jobs.
> > > The supply-side language accompanying these cuts is just political filler,
> > > spin control, unadulterated garbage. Rather, the real objective is the
> > > libertarian desire to reduce the size of government, to reduce government
> > > spending and transfer payments purely for the sake of reducing government
> > > spending and transfer payments. Lowering tax revenues creates a budget
> > > deficit that conservatives then argue can only be solved by lowering
> > > spending. The net impact is to redistribute income toward the wealthy.
> > >
> > > America has been Southernized.
> >
> >Which is really too bad, and I speak as one from the South, but with a
> >different point of view.
> 
> 



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