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echo: surv_rush
to: ROBERT CRAFT
from: MIKE ANGWIN
date: 1998-03-02 10:08:00
subject: Re: Balanced Budget???

RC>I don't think that capital expense is justifiable on any
RC>sort of cost-benefit analysis.
  
        They could always rent a basketball stadium...
 MA> it's laws,
RC>Certainly, all entitlement programs should be thoroughly
RC>reformulated. Had such been done to Social Security, we'd
RC>not be facing the problems we now have. 
 
         All entitlement programs should go...including Social
Security.
 MA> it's records,
RC>Come now, abandon all records? Institutional amnesia serves
RC>only to grant the institution absolution to make the same
RC>mistake over and over. Sheesh! 
  
       All of them...sealed for 50 years.  
 MA> it's employees,
RC>Already happens at 20-30 years with normal retirement for
RC>civil service. As for elected officials... that's up to the
RC>electorate.
  
      No retirement.  You work for government you do it understanding
you'll eventually have to get an honest job.  
 MA> and it's facilities be abandoned every 20 years.
RC>Unjustifiable capital expense by any cost-benefit analysis.
 
         Don't build...rent. 
RC>No, it's a semi-orderly anarchy resulting from
RC>institutional amnesia and unnecessary capital expense.
 
          "Semi-orderly anarchy" and "instutional amnesia", somehow
those phrases are almost appealing.  :)
 
                                               Mike Angwin
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