-=> On 03-02-98  10:08, Mike Angwin did testify and affirm <=-
-=> to Robert Craft concerning Re: Balanced Budget??? <=-
 RC> I don't think that capital expense is justifiable on any
 RC> sort of cost-benefit analysis.
 MA> They could always rent a basketball stadium...
That only serves to facilitate their ability to evade
constitutents. 
 
 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. 
 
 MA> All entitlement programs should go...including Social
 MA> Security.
But, the manner in which it goes?
 
 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! 
 MA> 
 MA> All of them...sealed for 50 years.  
 
Come now... imagine giving the Dufus and Company an
official imprimateur to withhold all records of their first
administration?
 
 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. 
 MA> No retirement.  You work for government you do it
 MA> understanding you'll eventually have to get an honest job. 
IOW, you want a goverment manned by civil service employees
unable to compete in the civilian market? That'll do
wonders for government efficiency.
 
 MA> and it's facilities be abandoned every 20 years.
 
 RC> Unjustifiable capital expense by any cost-benefit analysis.
 
 MA> Don't build...rent. 
Come now, Mike. You as a businessman, should know that long
term rental is seldom good financial stewardship
particularly when rental costs aren't deductible. 
... Clinton:  The Constitution is just a technicality.
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