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From: lazarus@athena.mit.edu (Michael Friedman)
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Subject: Re: The Difference It Makes . . .
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Date: 16 Jan 88 06:25:19 GMT
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I wouldn't bother to respond to this article, but its got some really
obnoxious personal attacks. If Mr. Lazarus wants to continue the
personal invective I suggest he send me E-mail and spare the rest of
the net.

(Note: although I have added alt.flame to the distribution I don't get
it so I won't respond to postings there.)

In article <8801160000.AA20929@jiff> jiff!lazarus (Andrew J Lazarus) writes:
>
>Please note I am no relation (thank Goodness) to
                              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>lazarus@athena
Seconded!!!!!!!

Besides, my Lazarus is taken from Lazarus Long, the Heinlein
character. It isn't my name.

>
>Let's see, my neighborhood MacDonalds have about 8 workers at any one time;
>suppose they are all on minimum wage (doubtful), and minimum wage goes up
>one dollar/hr. So McDonalds is out about $12/hr more, including fringe
>bennies. Now, this McDonalds appears to me to do about $10 in sales
>per minute, that's $600/hour, so I guess a Big Mac has to go up two cents,
>not ten.

FORGET MCDONALDS!!! Look at the postings regarding actual effect of
minimum wage on black teen-age unemployment. Read back a week or so!!!!

>Not that I think the ten cents is a big problem. You know, one point,
>lazarus@athena, is that people who work full-time on a minimum wage
>job and find they can't eat on it are so unlikely to embrace
>Republicanism. Think about it.

I already made this point. In my opinion that is why Democratic
politicians perpetuate this situation. Politicians aren't dumb, you know.

>There are so many conservative postings from athena, I guess your
>true login scrooge@athena was already allocated.

I. I just checked - there is no Scrooge on Athena - sorry.

II. Perhaps the reason there are so many conservatives on Athena is
that we are (virtually) all MIT undergraduates. Being much more
intelligent than Berkeley people we are naturally much more
conservative.

III. I will add that we aren't all rabid right-wingers. Check out Seth
Gordon's postings. He also posts from Athena, and is a personal
friend. Unfortuantely he is distressingly left wing. As he is also, in
my opinion, extremely smart, I am sure he will see the light some time
in the next few years.



These are the official opinions			Mike Friedman
of my organization. So, TOUGH!!