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Politics : Al Gore vs George Bush: the moderate's perspective -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Selectric II who wrote (2537)	10/15/2000 12:26:52 PM
From: Bosco	Respond to of 10042

<ot> Hi all, Selectric, I am merely a spectator of this great and civil debate, but I am driven to delurking out of linguistic curiosity. To begin with, if SI is indeed a statistically-oriented website, I should beg the pardon of being clueless all these years :). I think 80/20 is more a metaphor than a statistics. Not a good student myself, but I will bet [not statistically prudent, I suppose] 80/20 verbiage still litter business case studies, systems analysis courses. Furthermore, I think the use of 80/20 is very well sanctioned by contemporary linguistic heavy weights like Chomsky, Goodman, Quine, Austin and Wittgenstein, to name a few. Since I barge in here with free association :), I may as well contribute my ignorance to the thread, I will bet 80%, i.e., majority, of the people are sensible beings who can see and have seen the creative energies of immigration injected into this country when they are presented with open questions about the issue. Then there is the 20% with literal interpretation and absolute idea they alone are the sons and daughters of America. Farce aside, the greatest revelation about immigrant is from a scene in Blazing Saddles <VBG>, I cannot see how the good old US of A has come to this stage without the puritans [immmigrant,] the irish [immigrant,] the chinese [immigrant,] the jew [immigrant] on and on. From the political angle, I doubt the GOP forgets the lesson of former California governor, Mr Pete Wilson, who has so deftly used his political skills to raise to power, until he tried the anti-immigration card, the third rail of divisiveness, if you will. Furthermore, I urge people take a look at the immigration policy of Australia in the 60s and that of the early 90s with the provincial government of British Columbia. Bad immigration policy tends to hurt the host country most! Just my 2c Carry on with the great debate, thanks best, Bosco