[Rhodes22-list] Social programs.

[brad haslett]

Stan,

That reminds me of the campaign rhetoric from 1992
coming from the "pork belly" Senator from NY,
remember, "the greed of the 80's".  Much of the
"paradigm shift" in the "new economy" of the nineties
was "smoke and mirrrors".  My best friend, a very
conservative stock broker, said all through the boom
there wasn't anything to back up the stock prices and
he was right.  Some CEO's, no, make that a lot of
CEO's turned out to be crooks. I hope they go to jail
but they probably won't.  Now we're in the middle of a
recession, business cycle, correction, what ever you
want to call it.  It would have come no matter who was
in office or who ran the SEC just as the Tulip Bubble
burst in Holland several hundred years ago. We've made
money about as cheap as it can get and people aren't
spending.  Now we're running up the deficit just as
FDR did to jump start the economy.  Cutting taxes
worked for Reagan, maybe it will work for 43.  The
truth is, as Richard Nixon lamented, the President is
either hero or goat as a result of the economy with
limited means to change it in the short run... Ah,
Richard Milhous Nixon!  Oh well, save that praise for
another day Bradley.

Brad Haslett
--- General Boats <wwrhodes@rhodes22.com> wrote:
> You are talking about the C.E.O. generation the
> government coddled after Levitt
> left the helm of the SEC, right?
> 
> stan/gbi
> 
> Rik Sandberg wrote:
> 
> > Rummy,
> >
> > Absolutely agree that a "helping hand" sometimes
> is necessary and good. What
> > we have now is not a helping hand. The better
> share of these people are
> > doing nothing more than mooching their entire
> existence off of the rest of
> > us. Probably can't only blame either them or the
> government for that though,
> > as much as we'd like to, WE are letting them do it
> to us. I'm with Steve
> > here. Once you let people get used to getting
> stuff for nothing, not only do
> > they eventually stop appreciating these benefits,
> they soon also expect
> > more. Just ask them, they'll tell you they
> *deserve* this stuff. Some folks
> > just don't have the strength of character to take
> pride in making their own
> > way through life. Free handouts uncover these
> types very quickly.
> >
> > Rik
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <R22RumRunner@aol.com>
> > To: <rhodes22-list@rhodes22.org>
> > Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 10:18 AM
> > Subject: [Rhodes22-list] Social programs.
> >
> > > Whether we like having our tax dollars going to
> social problems or not,
> > it's
> > > the social programs that help make our society
> what it is. Without the
> > > programs you would have more homeless people,
> health problems, more crime
> > and
> > > a social class without a future.
> > > I'm not advocating free rides. People need to
> work at improving their
> > > situations, but sometimes circumstances put good
> people into bad
> > situations
> > > and they need a helping hand.
> > >
> > > Rummy
> > >
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