Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ficc!jeffd
From: jeffd@ficc.uu.net (jeff daiell)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Soviet Access to Usenet
Summary: Distinctions....
Message-ID: <2469@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 16 Dec 88 18:54:03 GMT
References: <7649@well.UUCP> <8081@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <17651@gatech.edu> <777@afit-ab.arpa>
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In article <777@afit-ab.arpa>, wbralick@afit-ab.arpa (William A. Bralick) writes:
> In article <594@acorn.co.uk> abray@acorn.co.uk (Andy Bray) writes:
> >
> > [loadsa stuff deleted]
> >
> >Now I realise this is no longer totally appropriate for comp.misc, but to some
> >of us here in Europe, the distinction between Gorby's Russia and Ronnies USA
> >seems to be getting a bit blurred.
> >
> 
> This is perhaps a lack of clarity of vision on the part of the viewer.
> I am sure that you were only trying to stimulate our thoughts.  I am
> sure that you can draw a distinction between a free society and an
> unfree society.

I agree the distinctions between these United States and the USSR are
monumental ... I'd like to see them even bigger.  That is, I'd like
to see our governments (Federal, State, local) start to shrink 
instead of grow, for taxes to fall rather than rise, for 
regulation to be reduced rather than increased, for violations 
of our personal, social, and civil liberties to be eliminated 
rather than encouraged.  I'm tired of the IRS and the DEA 
trying to see who can come closest to the KGB in authority AND
tactics.

Of course, if the distinctions between us and them are reduced by
the Soviets moving closer to a free market and free minds, great.
But how about us taking the lead, and providing an even more
exhilirating example than we have been?

Jeff Daiell
(opinions my own, until taxed away)
 
P. S.  If we stopped subsidizing the Soviet Bloc, they'd not be
       able to be as militaristic ... which would let *us* cut
       our military budget, thus improving our economy.



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