NO DIGRESSION FOR YOU
Daniel Davis
cicero13 at ufl.edu
Sun Nov 8 09:21:38 PST 1998
Calm down, you didnt need to crack down so hard and ruthless, it was just one
message slightly off of the titled subject. It wasnt going to continue anyway.
Take it easy before you get a heart attack.
NO DIGRESSION FOR YOU, DIGRESSION NAZI
Mike Ositoff wrote:
> > What makes you think that slavery is not active at this time! The new
> > welfare rules and laws have the intention to force women to take low-paying
> > jobs (slavery) and to place their children in day-care. Now, a true welfare
> > reform program would stress education so that these women could take on
> > well-paying jobs. But the answer to this is no, the business community
> > cannot find enough people for low-paying and/or disagreeable jobs, so they
> > will force low skill women into these jobs. Where I come from, this is
> > called slavery.
> >
> > Michael S.
>
> I'm not the list owner, so I'm just speaking as one participant
> to another: The problems that you speak of, and many others,
> related & unrelated, are, ultimately at least, issues of government.
> Pretty much everything major that happens around us, including
> the survival or non-survival of the natural environment, depends
> on social decisions made by government. Sometimes by initiatives,
> more often by elected officials. How we choose those officials,
> or how we'd make multi-alternative choices in direct democracy
> (if we had DD), is therefore something that matters. We're on
> this list because we agree that how public choices are made,
> at the voting level, is the basis of the mechanism of how those
> problems happen or don't happen.
>
> That's why we're here to discuss voting systems. Not all the
> particular social problems & social mistakes. It's been
> pointed out by Noam Chomsky & others that the public has
> repeatedly shown itself to be more progressive than its
> leaders. It matters how we choose them. Join our discussion
> of how to imporove the way we choose them.
>
> Mike Ossipoff
>
> >
> > Michael Schoenfield
> > Michael A. Schoenfield & Associates, Ltd.
> > 2637 Mason Street
> > Madison, WI 53705-3709
> >
> > (608) 238-6121 Voice
> > (608) 233-2507 Fax
> > maschoen at execpc.com E-Mail
> > http://www.angelfire.com/biz/maschoen/
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: David Catchpole <s349436 at student.uq.edu.au>
> > To: <election-methods-list at eskimo.com>
> > Sent: Friday, November 06, 1998 6:39 AM
> > Subject: Re: First Choice Criterion
> >
> >
> > >On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Daniel Davis wrote:
> > >> Well Corny, if you want to be ultra-meta-super-idealistic, why have
> > representatives? Time for some greek city-state
> > >> democracy.
> > >
> > >Yeah, I think slavery should come back in fashion, don't you guys?
> > >
> > >
> > >
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> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >(P.S. This is sarcasm... honestly!)
> > >
> >
> >
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