Both Sides
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
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Reading different newspapers, I always find name calling, finger pointing and quoting figures as the norm. W.C. Fields said quoting statistics was the refuge of scoundrels, and nobody's mind gets changed.
I decided to move to a higher level of political input and started attending McDonald's political forums on Detroit Street. Dave Bumgartner, a social studies don at Warsaw schools and former colleague of mine, is an Obama man, while Mike Wood, a former student of mine, is a McCain man.
Dave has ideas that should appeal to Democrats, socialists and communists. You know, soak the rich, tax big oil, divide up the wealth. He says if his man is defeated, there will be soup lines everywhere. Well, I hadn't seen the soup lines since the early '30s. I had, however, heard these theories in the '30s from Earl Browder and Gus Hall. Check the Internet.
Dave had me convinced as he said if we divide up all the money, every family will have $25,000. I rushed home to check my savings. Well I had $40,000. Goodbye, Dave.
I now started to listen to Mike Wood, a supply siders dream. He seems to have some old-fashioned ideas, like stick to the Constitution; man's right to defend himself; don't kill of the ones we will depend to pay our social security; one should be able to keep what he earns, low taxes, etc.
Mike doesn't see how you can make the poor rich by making the rich poor - hmmm. Mike assured me that the economy was "fundamentally sound." Back to the 1930s, that's what Herbert Hoover said before the bank took the farm, but I trusted Mike's judgment. Just to be sure I called my broker (I do have one). Well, I now know what standard and poor means. It seems the CEO, chief embezzlement officer, of a few firms helped themselves to some of my dough. Goodbye, Mike.
I headed home to check out the Libertarian's view. They seem to have a rather shaky platform. Every man for himself. Might just be the way to go.
George Plew
Warsaw
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Reading different newspapers, I always find name calling, finger pointing and quoting figures as the norm. W.C. Fields said quoting statistics was the refuge of scoundrels, and nobody's mind gets changed.
I decided to move to a higher level of political input and started attending McDonald's political forums on Detroit Street. Dave Bumgartner, a social studies don at Warsaw schools and former colleague of mine, is an Obama man, while Mike Wood, a former student of mine, is a McCain man.
Dave has ideas that should appeal to Democrats, socialists and communists. You know, soak the rich, tax big oil, divide up the wealth. He says if his man is defeated, there will be soup lines everywhere. Well, I hadn't seen the soup lines since the early '30s. I had, however, heard these theories in the '30s from Earl Browder and Gus Hall. Check the Internet.
Dave had me convinced as he said if we divide up all the money, every family will have $25,000. I rushed home to check my savings. Well I had $40,000. Goodbye, Dave.
I now started to listen to Mike Wood, a supply siders dream. He seems to have some old-fashioned ideas, like stick to the Constitution; man's right to defend himself; don't kill of the ones we will depend to pay our social security; one should be able to keep what he earns, low taxes, etc.
Mike doesn't see how you can make the poor rich by making the rich poor - hmmm. Mike assured me that the economy was "fundamentally sound." Back to the 1930s, that's what Herbert Hoover said before the bank took the farm, but I trusted Mike's judgment. Just to be sure I called my broker (I do have one). Well, I now know what standard and poor means. It seems the CEO, chief embezzlement officer, of a few firms helped themselves to some of my dough. Goodbye, Mike.
I headed home to check out the Libertarian's view. They seem to have a rather shaky platform. Every man for himself. Might just be the way to go.
George Plew
Warsaw
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