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Politics : Did Slick Boink Monica? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Janice Shell who wrote (9033)	3/1/1998 1:25:00 PM
From: greenspirit	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 20981

Janice, the American public is not woefully ignorant. That's the elitism in you speaking. We would get far better politicians if we simply opened the white papers and pointed randomly. Perfect example...There has been a huge debate in Seattle recently about setting up a mass transit system. The multi-billion dollar train bills have routinely failed because of their high cost, and the publics belief that it would not be efficient and utilized. Enter a local Seattle buss driver...He devised a plan using monorails interconnecting them to buss terminals and railroad stations which by most accounts is absolutely brilliant. Those million dollar Ivy league consultants now look like complete fools. Often times life experiences and good old fashioned common sense is all that is needed in the public policy arena. I look forward to a Seattle monorail system up and running by the year 2003. One of the biggest problems we have is electing a bunch of lawyers to do the peoples work in the House of Representatives. And people then wonder why we have the most complicated tax system in the world. duhhhh. Michael

To: Janice Shell who wrote (9033)	3/1/1998 5:43:00 PM
From: greenspirit	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 20981

Janice, res- Wellesley and other Ivy and Seven Sisters schools are quite insistent on a good geographic mix of students, and offer generous scholarships to those unable to afford the bills.>>> Janice, if daddy has the money, and baby wants to go to seven sisters college. Baby goes to Seven sisters. It's got nothing to do with geography, and everything to do with economic wealth. You are right though, probably 30% of the students get assistance from the school with some form of scholarship money. And once there the students must perform. Michael