STARK RAVING MAD

The Wall Street Journal reported on page 1, August 1997, that "The U. S. will pay more than 1,000 teaching hospitals nationwide not to train doctors in some specialties in an effort to reduce a glut in those areas, according to the Washington Post. The program, which is contained in recent budget legislation, expands a $400 million New York experiment.'' Let's see - they are reducing the amounts paid to farmers to not produce food, while they are starting a new program to pay hospitals to not produce doctors who keep people alive to eat food. Perhaps next will be a program to pay Teamsters to not deliver food to prevent a predicted glut from more food and fewer people.
Our local UPS driver retires next year. Under the rejected UPS plan, his pension payment would have been $3,200 per month. Under the victorious Clinton Administration and Teamsters plan, his pension will be $2,400 per month. The union victory on behalf of UPS drivers has cost this one man $9,600 per year (or an over 30% increase in his pension) for the rest of his life. During the strike, the Teamsters Union did not allow UPS employees to vote on the UPS offers because the primary issue was the continued looting of their pension fund.
"The Great Tax Cut of China'' by A. Rabushka in The Wall Street Journal, p A14, August 7, 1997, reports that the current overall tax burden in China is 10% of GDP while in the United States it is 34%. That 24% difference represents the savings and investment capital left over after functional expenses that would allow American workers to compete favorably with those in China. America was built by free enterprise during a period of low taxation. With economic freedom confiscated by high taxes, Americans are losing their way of life.

•	Earth, Physics, and Chemistry
•	50 MILLION WASTED MINDS?
•	LIMITED BY LIGHT
•	FOSSIL FUELS?
•	TEMPERATURE 101
•	*STARK RAVING MAD*
•	GOOD READING

Vol. 25, No. 1

Newsletter: Access to Energy Newsletter Archive
Volume: Issues
Issue/No.: Vol. 25, No. 1

Date: September 01, 1997 02:39 PM
Title: Earth, Physics, and Chemistry