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To: Elsewhere who wrote (3301)	7/10/2003 9:06:40 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793839

Thanks JJ. David Brooks wrote an article exploring this line from the article. "Americans are not as obsessed with social insurance because they think if they work hard they will get rich," says Robert MacCulloch, a professor of economics at Princeton University. And they think that once they get rich, they won't want to be burdened with high taxes to cover welfare costs" True or not, the difference is expectations is one of the reasons we don't have the "class struggle" you have in Europe. The article I posted today over in FA explores this issue at length, and the stats are damning, IMO.

To: Elsewhere who wrote (3301)	7/14/2003 10:27:32 PM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 793839

Schwarzenegger moves beyond his father's Nazi past Robert Salladay, Chronicle Staff Writer Sunday, July 13, 2003 ©2003 San Francisco Chronicle \| Feedback URL: sfgate.com Sacramento -- Gustav Schwarzenegger was a police officer and postal inspector in the tiny Austrian village of Thal. In 1938, soon after Germany annexed Austria in the Anschluss, he applied for membership in the Nazi Party and was accepted three years later. This information is known because Gustav Schwarzenegger's son, Arnold, asked the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles to research his father's background in the late 1980s. Some political operatives assume Arnold Schwarzenegger's "Nazi background" could haunt him in a potential gubernatorial campaign, but it's clear the actor and bodybuilder has rejected that part of Austrian history. Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean and founder of the Wiesenthal Center, said Schwarzenegger has been a generous donor to the Jewish human rights organization -- "every time he does a movie, he writes a check" -- and has been granted its National Leadership Award for his humanitarian work. "It's not a proud moment for anyone when you learn your father was a member of the Nazi Party," Hier said in an interview. "But Arnold is not his father, and Arnold has to be judged for who he is. I have always found him to be interested in the issues of the museum. He has been very friendly and supportive." Hier said nothing could be found in Berlin archives that any war crimes or atrocities were committed by the actor's father, who remained in police service after the war and died in 1972. "He said whatever it is, he wanted to know about it," the rabbi said about Arnold Schwarzenegger. "He wanted to be in a position to know what the facts are." Hier confirmed a story about Austrian President Joerg Haider visiting the Wiesenthal Center and seeing his picture on a "wall of shame" next to Uganda dictator Idi Amin and racist David Duke. Haider was outraged. "He said he was going to complain to Arnold," Hier said. According to press accounts, Arnold then checked out Haider's record -- including his statement that the Nazis had "sensible policies" -- and called Haider to say he belonged on the wall. He has denounced Haider on several occasions. Schwarzenegger has been accused of associating with Nazis because he invited former Austrian President Kurt Waldheim, a German officer during World War II, to his 1986 wedding to Maria Shriver. Waldheim had lied about his association with the Nazi army unit, which was linked to atrocities in the Balkans. "He probably did not have any clue as to the seriousness of the allegations against Waldheim at that time," Hier recently told the Jerusalem Post. "To suggest that Arnold's an anti-Semite is preposterous. He's done more to further the cause of Holocaust awareness than almost any other Hollywood star."