NO DIGRESSION FOR YOU

[Mike Ositoff]

> 
>     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.

Thank you for your concern, but you're digressing again. I refer
you to any of the many excellent newsgroups & mailing lists
dealing with health topics.


> 
>     NO DIGRESSION FOR YOU, DIGRESSION NAZI

Now don't get all hysterical on us, Dan. You were way off-topic,
and someone mentioned it. Why the tremendous upset?

Mike Ossipoff




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> Mike Ositoff wrote:
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> > > 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
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> > > ----- 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?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >(P.S. This is sarcasm... honestly!)
> > > >
> > >
> > >
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