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simulating the budget (fwd)
From: Dave Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>
Date: Sat, 3 Jun 1995 16:15:42 +0900
From: Mitch Marcus <mitch () linc cis upenn edu> Posted-Date: Fri, 2 Jun 1995 08:21:23 -0400 Subject: simulating the budget (fwd) To: farber () central cis upenn edu (Dave Farber) Date: Fri, 2 Jun 1995 08:21:23 -0400 (EDT) Mime-Version: 1.0 Dave, I forwarded your note about do-it-yourself budget balancing to my friend Arthur Waskow (who did the famous Freedom Seder in the late '60s, and has done Jewish anti-nuclear and environmental activism since, as well as much modern Biblical interpretation.). Arthur also has the distinction of winning a law suit against the FBI for having his phone tapped illegally! His response is too eloquent not to pass on. [ And too eloquent not to pass on to IP. Makes me think of the Video game war we saw played in Desert Storm. Only a handful of real people died (the Iraqies seemed to be non real video game creatures. . Dave] Mitch Forwarded message: From Awaskow () aol com Thu Jun 1 23:01:10 1995 From: Awaskow () aol com Posted-Date: Thu, 1 Jun 1995 23:01:10 -0400 Received-Date: Thu, 1 Jun 1995 23:01:10 -0400 Date: Thu, 1 Jun 1995 23:00:39 -0400 Message-Id: <950601230036_19546984 () aol com> To: ccer () violet berkeley edu Cc: can-er () pencil cs missouri edu, mitch () linc cis upenn edu Subject: simulating the budget The post from Berkeley announces that the so-called "wired budget" promises to make possible <"Generating automatic bar charts that let you see the results of your budget choices"> I am happy to hear that it will be possible to provide via Internet the tears of 4th-grade children who go hungry because school lunches are abolished and the tears of 12th-graders who cannot go to a college for which they are well-qualified because the loan system has been gutted, the agonized screams of a woman who has contracted metastasized breast cancer because regulations restricting pesticides have been relaxed, the sounds of shattering glass from a city engulfed in riots because summer jobs have been abolished, and all the other real :"results" of the Congressional budget. Bravo! -- Arthur Waskow.
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