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To: LindyBill who wrote (77008)	10/13/2004 12:33:55 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793794

OP-ED CONTRIBUTORS Questions for Kerry NYT A Real Job By CHARLES MURRAY, a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and the author, most recently, of "Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 B.C. to 1950'' Five percent of Americans pay 54 percent of all personal income taxes. They do not use more government services than other Americans; they use fewer. Why is this fair? Would you be willing to sponsor tort reform that requires plaintiffs to have used common sense before being eligible for damages? You promise to create millions of jobs, but many people who run businesses say that nothing in your life has taught you how much effort, risk and sometimes heartbreak goes into creating one real job. Could you describe your experiences when you last had to meet a payroll, or when your boss had to meet a payroll? Clearing the Air By CHRISTIE WHITMAN, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency from 2001 to 2003 You have been critical of President Bush's rejection of the Kyoto Protocol, yet in 1997 you joined 94 of your Senate colleagues in effectively rejecting its terms. What has changed to make you accept now what you then rejected? The president's Clear Skies proposal calls for a 70 percent reduction in some of the worst air pollutants, including mercury, over the next decade. While the current Clean Air Act has made a difference, it is cumbersome, it almost always involves lengthy litigation that delays any benefits, and it doesn't set any specific level for the reduction of mercury. Why haven't you led the fight to avoid lawsuits and instead demand the results the president has advocated? Back to Schools By STEPHEN L. CARTER, a professor of law at Yale and the author, most recently, of "The Emperor of Ocean Park," a novel During the long period it would take to carry out your plan to improve the public schools, would you, in the interest of racial justice, support a system of vouchers to enable the parents of poor inner-city children to pay for private schooling to cover the transitional years? Throughout the five or more years that your plan envisions, many inner-city children will continue to receive substandard educations, and to suffer in other material and spiritual ways. If the answer to the first question is no, would you call on well-to-do Democrats to show their support for public education, and for the poor, by voluntarily sending their children to the schools that the inner-city parents are required to use? After all, a sudden influx of middle-class families might force a cure for many of those schools' deficiencies. If the answer to the second question is no, are there any sacrifices that you would call upon middle-class Americans to make for the sake of improving the condition of the worst-off among us? Copyright 2004 The New York Times Company

To: LindyBill who wrote (77008)	10/13/2004 12:43:44 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 793794

"This America that speaks constantly of war and designates an enemy is not really accepted here," said Nicole Bacharan, a French analyst. "Europeans have a deep desire not to feel threatened. It is sad to observe this divorce in our world views." Sweetheart, we all have a deep desire not to feel threatened. It's just that some of us are a little more realistic about things than others of us. Sheesh. One would really think that Bush was threatening to bomb Paris, not Fallujah. Talk about shooting the messenger.