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From: rwojcik@bcsaic.UUCP (Rick Wojcik)
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Subject: Re: First concert from space--update
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Date: 14 Mar 89 00:58:45 GMT
References: <10644@bcsaic.UUCP> <3436@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu>
Reply-To: rwojcik@bcsaic.UUCP (Rick Wojcik)
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In article <3436@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Greg Lee) writes:
>... But arguing for more funds on the grounds that it will
>increase the chance we will have colonies before we make our planet
>unlivable, which we surely will sooner or later, is just not
>going to work.  I would favor a strategy that works over one that
>sounds high-minded.

We disagree (as usual, my friend :-) over tactics.  I, too, favor policies
that work.  Unlike you, I believe that such policies are not inconsistent with
ones that sound high-minded.  You and I both remember an era--under John
Kennedy--when high-mindedness got things done.  I consider your tactics to be
pandering, and ultimately self-defeating.  The public can always be fed bread
and circuses.  But if it is treated as capable of making responsible and
intelligent decisions, it might begin to behave as if it could.  Treat the
public like a child that needs to be coddled, and it will behave like one. 

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Rick Wojcik   csnet:  rwojcik@atc.boeing.com	   
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