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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill F. who wrote (66452)	8/20/1999 6:48:00 AM
From: PaperChase	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

Mr. Bill Fleck- . Read your Thursday column -- not half bad -- consider that a compliment from your biggest grumpy critic. Was reading a Y2K report from Y2K extremist Gary North (www.garynorth.com). The following 'quote of a quote' from Mr. North's Y2K report helped me understand why most people really don't like your views: "In their book, THE SOVEREIGN INDIVIDUAL, Davidson and Rees-Mogg make a very important observation: A recent psychological study disguised as a public opinion poll showed that members of individual occupational groups were almost uniformly unwilling to accept any conclusion that implied a loss of income for them, no matter how airtight the logic supporting it. Given increased specialization, most of the interpretive information about most specialized occupational groups is designed to cater to the interests of the groups themselves. They have little interest in views that might be impolite, unprofitable , or politically incorrect (p. 339). " Well, ain't that the truth -- your views sure are unprofitable. <no g>