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To: Amy J who wrote (112023)	5/23/2000 5:26:00 AM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1570819

Amy, OT PS I'm not saying I'm a Democrat or Republican. I am only stating a comment on a factual piece of information related to how the Republicans blocked legislation I think any self-respecting newspaper (of which there are not many) would place your comment under editorial or opinion rather than under reporting, which is supposed to be factual. Your opinion is completely one sided, and is lacking context of why each side was supporting such legislation and other side was opposing it. Joe

To: Amy J who wrote (112023)	5/23/2000 5:52:00 AM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1570819

Amy, OT PS to my previous post: I would like to recommend to you and to others an excellent book called "Economics in One Lesson" amazon.com It is a perfect antidote to the daily indoctrination that we face. Some are able to see through it, some are not. Anyway, back to the book (which I read years ago). It was written long time ago, I believe in 40s or 50s. It goes through many popular issues that are debated today (and they happen to be pretty much the same issues that were debated decades ago). The key lesson that I learned from it is to look for the other side of every action of an individual, corporation or government, even when it is not apparent that there is an other side. There always is the other side, there always is a cost to every "benefit". It is only when you know the other side, or the reaction of the action that you can make a solid argument. Of course, that is if you are interested in making a solid argument rather than demagoguing the issue. Even if your intention is to be a demagogue, the book will show you the arguments the side of reason will likely use against you. Joe

To: Amy J who wrote (112023)	5/23/2000 12:52:00 PM
From: pgerassi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570819

Dear Amy: The democrats have passed many laws that cost startups far more money than they save in one or two cases. The tax burdens and reporting they require causes many small businesses to spend too much time and money to stay compliant. They consistently vote for more bureaucracy than republicans. I have created many small business computer programs in my time. Some of the regulations I have seen are totally unneeded and extremely burdensome. One such requirement was to keep a record of every time a pesticide is used. The amount, place, time, and who applied a single pesticide was required to be kept for 30 years. A single pest control company with only the owner as the applicant generates about 40 to 60 of these each visit. Take that and multiply it by 10 visits per day, 300 days a year, and for 30 years and you get 2.4 million to 3.6 million records. For a one man shop, in the days when a dual floppy computer costs $3,000 to $5,000, this would have meant that he would have to spend an additional 2 to three hours in data entry, and $500 to $1000 on just computer media alone. 3.6 million records would take 5 Gigabytes of storage at $10 a disk of 1.2 Megabytes each. That is 4000 disks or about 40 cubic feet of storage. He paid me about $4000 to deliver a program that reduced this to about 60 Megabytes or 50 disks saving him about $40,000 and about 40 hours a month. In this day, $40,000 would buy a four bedroom house on a acre of land in a "Ritzy" neighborhood. When you count on who is better for small business, please include the time and material cost of complience with the laws created by the people you espouse. Many acts of the very democrats you seem to like, cause these huge burdens on small business. The "Luxury Tax" caused many people to lose their jobs and many small businesses to close. The big government program of Social Security was so poorly designed that it is a wonder it is still around today. This program is the equivalent of a "Ponzi" scheme. It was not sold that way. If is was truly designed like it was sold to the public, it would be in much better shape and we would not have to "Fix It" every 10 or so years (mostly by throwing more money at it). One of the things that is very hard to do in our system of government is to get rid of bad laws and programs. Now we will have to pay a huge amount to "Fix It". Why do we have the telephone excise tax still on the books? Welfare laws needed to be reformed. Health Care is still fundementally flawed. I would like Health Care to be more like Dental Care in its goals. This would greatly reduce the costs and increase the health of both you and me. Why is C-sections so often performed with the consequences you describe? Perhaps a more general reform will be a better response to this situtation. Perhaps the mere fact that both parents work is a symptom of a bigger problem. I believe that this problem is we have too big of a government at all levels, local, state, and federal. This is what we should attack by removing or reforming those laws that cause things like unfunded mandates, tax laws that no one can figure out, "Managed" care by pitting Insurance Bureaucracy against Provider Bureaucracy, and regulations that say they need 5000 pages of documentation in triplicate to do anything. Pete