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To: unclewest who wrote (6531)	9/1/2003 8:08:30 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793798

but the NRA has a huge following in N Cal. You don't have to be against the NRA in Calif. You can tolerate it. You just can't stand on a platform and wave an assault rifle at people. Same thing with abortion. You don't "front" it in your campaign.

To: unclewest who wrote (6531)	9/1/2003 8:24:40 PM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 793798

The Religious Left and the Unions. Good piece for Labor Day. "Among church hierarchy, there is precious little understanding of the economics of sound policy," says Lawrence Reed, president of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy (www.mackinac.org) in Midland, Michigan?.?Christ?s admonition against weath redistribution in Luke 12:13-15 doesn?t keep?[most mainline denominations] from frequently endorsing the most harmful proposals in organized labor?s agenda--from living wage laws to nationalized health care.? Has Mr. Reed ever got that right. A couple of years ago I shot an episode of Uncommon Knowledge with Bishop John Wester, an auxiliary bishop in the archdiocese of San Francisco, and Tom MacCurdy, an economist at the Hoover Institution. At issue: Bishop Wester?s endorsement of a ?living wage? proposal then facing San Francisco voters. Under questioning from Tom--and you can read the transcript for yourself right here (http://www.uncommonknowledge.org/winter00/417.html)--it became obvious that Bishop Wester had never subjected the ?living wage? proposal to even elementary economic analysis. The Bishop was shocked--truly shocked--to learn hear Tom argue that the proposal would only have shored up wages for those already established in the workforce, excluding those, including the most recent immigrants, who had yet to develop marketable skills. The Bishop, in other words, had placed the moral authority of the Church of Rome behind the ?living wage? proposal without having the slightest idea what he was talking about. The Bishop?s concern for the poor was transparent. But he wasn?t thinking . And since he was merely lending his support to a measure championed by organized labor, it seemed pretty clear, it had never occurred to him that he should. nationalreview.com