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From: melvin@ji.Berkeley.EDU (Steve Melvin)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Congress considering changes to Daylight Savings
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Date: Thu, 12-Nov-87 14:33:29 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 12 14:33:29 1987
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Summary: Foolishness in Washington

In article <7708@reed.UUCP> horton@reed.UUCP (Nike Horton) writes:
	[details of House plan deleted]

I find this plan utterly absurd.  The House has proposed a ridiculous
solution to a non-problem.  First, it boggles the mind to imagine the
confusion that would be caused in those two weeks with the east and west
coasts only two hours apart.  And for what?  If you imagine in your wildest
dreams that the presidential election will ever be decided on one vote
you are a fool.  The motivation to participate in such a mass event
transcends the desire to individually have an effect on the outcome.  We
do it because we believe in the democratic process, because we believe that
participation is important, etc., not because we think our individual vote
is going to sway the election.  Remember when John Anderson was running for
president?  People said: "I would vote for him if I thought he had a chance,
but since he doesn't, I won't because I want my vote to count."  My response
was: Don't you understand, you fool, your vote is not going to *count* in
that sense anyway?  I say that anyone who decides not to vote because a
presidential candidate has already conceded or because networks have already
projected a winner doesn't deserve any consideration.  Let us hope that the
House can find better things to do than waste effort on this "problem" and
let us hope that the Senate has more sense than to adopt such an
ill-conceived idea.

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Steve Melvin
melvin@ji.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP
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