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Show - 7-- ..v : !l 4A lUesday December . 26,2000 Stall editoria vv v-- . . Predicts robbery of U.S. middle class to start Staff reporter . . . Last week, t watched as our government was turned over from one business group to another. Dont get me wrong, I have no great love for Al . Gore or Bill Clinton. But in the next four years, I be- -. lieve things will only get worse for the common man. The robbery of middle class Americans will begin " again in earnest just as it did during the Reapn and the daddy Bush years. ."7.77 : Over the pastfew months corporations and international businesses have been rubbing their hands together, just waiting for the rich man'ssenators son ' to become president They can see in their minds ; . v . ' will be called and weak.:. Watch, when new justices are appointed to the supreme court, how tee Christian right will begin to control our government 7 Watch for a Roe verses Wade battle that will rage with only a slight chance of a woman's right to choose weaken this country's defenses to tee point that tuxemborg could walk in and take over tee country, 7 The smoke will soon clear, and you will be able to see, if you are willing to look, teat tee only thing teat matters to this new administration is money. . I am not sure when, or if, tee American people ; will ever wake up to realize teat everything else is ;7: : '. V ; superfluous to this issue, : I wish I were a potitical carteonist because, right now, I can think of some great ones. The favorite one : I have in my brain has Bush walking out of a super- market with Cheney and tee Salvation Army guy is : By RICHARD SHAW . - ' not being overturned, Watphas environmental issues go down tee drain. If big business wants to do something, it won't matter the cost to tee planet- - ' v Much of Carbon Coulter was a garbage dump for the coal companies before laws stopped them; now the corporations may have tee whole county to get rid of their trash. , 7 :' If y ou think labor and unions have been taking a beating tee last few years the blows teat are going to be administered to the labor movement by this administration and Congress wijl take us back to the ; 1890s. The day may come when steel companies, automakers and such will be free to hire goon squads to beat up tabor agitators, just like In tee 1920s and ' ' .V ;. 7-'.' ; 1930$. 77 All this is not to say that ttie Democrats would have done much better. They inay give lip service to labor and tee environmental movement, but they are just as interested in tee big bucks as the Republi- -. cans. The Democrats just lie about it more. ; 7 . . standing by his pot ringing his bell. As they walk past it Cheney looks at Bush and says: Aren't you going 7 to put any money in tee pot for those poor people? ' Bush answers: J put a quarterin last year. Cheney smiles and says: See, we are compassionate : . : . eyes dollar signs where trickle down economics will once again rule' the roost 7 . their a krtof have concentrating money spent They , " ' Bush has huge ties to big oil. Watch oil prices go efforts on controlling Gore with their jmcketbooks, if 7 be won, and knowing they would have to do absoup and up. So will the Cost of running your car and lute nothing to help themselves if Bush was elected. heating your home, I believe wewill suddenly harm a natural gas shortage and a power shortage in the Well it looks like we, the American public, have given them a free ride. While, the rich have been in West The companies will; know that with the new: control of the country for a long time, at least we had president in office, Bush will give into almost any: rich people with a kind of social consciousness in thing they want to do, because he is one of teem. watch-athe Washington, D.C., the last few years. We will no Cheney loves the defense industry. just and admirals get all tee money they want 77'-Wit.' longer have that generals ; ; Politicians from bote major political parties inthe Republicans in control of the United to develbp new weapons to defeat enemies we no ; vent false and untrue crisis to take our minds off what States Congress, the executive branch and the U.S. longer have.rich we really need to concentrate on. V Watch as huge tax cuts are enacted for tee Supreme Court, the latter whose conservative stance This past presidential election was about one isto so teat they can build new industries provide jobs . will only become stronger with appointments by the -. in workis the foreign and then tee money invested 7 new president, we will have a national government sue, because so many of tee other issues were el- because-thedo can it' ther totally affected by this issue, of they were inrun just like our Utah state government has been. force outside our.country The roads will go to hell, education will be put on the cheaper. '.V'V vented to take ou r minds off jt That issue is big v. return to Watch the inevitable back burner and jhe platitudes about taking care of money and how.it affects and corrupts everything Reaganomics, over their lifetime. ' Questions BSA's J : crimination common that richer man gets and the is done in our government ttie common person in this country, while catering to where tee rich get , Other research has shown simi: tee rich, will move to a national level like has never shafted. And ask. yourself the famous Tgreat com-- ;. y. The change teat needs to take place in this coundecision larly high rates of discrimination ' from two 'Will to that take little is a municators question with twist been seen before; 7 political parties get away you be try .Editor. 7 orvlolenoe. ; their orders from big money.. The Republican politicians have spent the last 30 better off in four years than you are today? So much of the worlds violenoe Hate is not a value, so why are The present power structure needs a threat to more than three mlllioiiyoung men has been enacted in the name of Watch for us to go to war more often for more peter years scaring you teat if you elect progressives they . will take your pins away, ply your children with drugs, causes, than ever. Watch how people who protest tee .straighten tea two. parties out because as long as in the Boy Scouts of America be--' religion and conversion to a single let everyone who wants an abortion have one and wars the president and his corporations pick to fight , , (Continued on page 9A) ingtaught, along with the core val- way of thought. Each side of war ues of duty to God and country, ciftjms to have God on their side, : . . . ' ' ?.v; . . s . v , . . . . : . Letters editor to the . 7 about gays : . ; . . . : . , : . . . . honor; respect, honesty and com-- . munity service, to exclude a seg- meat of humanity? . Exclusion, no matter how you dothe tt, la an act of hate, in my Guest editorial and many wars have been fought of Christianihc ; in the I Bible has been bn believe the 7 terpreted throughout history to justify the opprMsion of minority ni groups like Jews, blacks, and opln1r.v' I recently watdmd a twoiiibur women. documentary called the -- Good . By WALT BORLA Guest columnist added to the national total compiled by tee party's nominee, but to what avail? V - Let's look back on tee history of the electoral col- -r 7-: lege. 7. ; ; . . . read James franklin Rinehart's guest column in the Sun Advocate (Dec. 12 issue) with great interest . and am totally surprised at some of tee opinions he holds. With all due respect to Mr Rinehart, I cannot imagine, anyone, especially some one from this county, who would feel that the 17th Amendment to the United States Constitution, calling for direct popular vote for U.S. senators rather than appointment by tee respective state legislatures, was wrong. This amendment was one of the most progressive actions ever taken in our democratic republic. Tbs ours is a republic established by our founding fa- - ; there end a democratic republic through the course I . 7, ''' of time. 7 Another step towards fine tuning this democratic republic would be tee abolishment of the antiquated . electoral college and election of our presidents by popular vote much as our U.S. senators. 7 v A voter in Utah casting a ballot for. the Democratic nominee for president is wasting his or her time. It is a foregone conclusion where the five elector votes in . . Utah are going what with tee dominant Republican party calling tee shots. Yes, tee Democratic votes are 7 Originally our founding fathers set up the electors as a nominating device for presidential candidates with the final selection left up to the House jof This proved tobe unworkable as witnessed tv the 36 ballots it took in the House to elect Thomas Jefferson over Aaron Burr , , Consequently, tee 12th Amendment to the U.S. , Constitution along aboutl812 changed that system. V Under tee original plan, it was possible to have a : ur U-- . Hayes-Samu- Book of Love where theologians from a variety of faiths pointed out that In every instance in which the Bible addresses homosexuality, it is the violent act of rape sad lt Hayes' favor on March 2, 1877. He was inaugurated three days later, March 5, Presidents in those days were not installed until March. '. The five justices on tee present court stalled until late on Dec. 11 and teen made what J consider a politicalized decision that a recount would have to be made on standardized methods, but it was too ate for this because Dec. 12 was jh date tee elec- tors should be certified. An evasive maneuver in the face of the precedent established in 1877. 7 . Does anyone know of any other election in which the candidate getting tee most votes does not win issue in as-tou- surrounding the act that la condemned ly God rather than the actltselt V:.7 v 7 '.. - ; ; .... .;.' . that-was ex-dusi-on . by tee practical difficulty of achieving a constitutional amendment to do so. Mr. Rinehart seems to have problems with the 16th amendment establishingthe progressive income tax. The basis of tee income tax, the ability to pay, is a nation Letters to the editor should focus on public 7 issues rather than private personalities or - 7 entities. All submissions must be verified . k - prior to publication. 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Though not a great student of ; the Bible, I agree with the conclu--: sion of the experts ho were featured in the documentary because it supports my concept of God as a deify of unconditional love who 'wotdd not create and then con-- ; demn that very creation. V The scouting program in not a government institution to be gov-- ; erned by laws that separate state and church. So, though I am sad-- ; dened by the choice to promote aa morality 1 recognize if as a dioice that rightfully belongs (Continued on page 5A) I believe exclusion la passive violence. Passive violence breeds aggression. If one chooses to ignore human history a visit to any " playground will teach the lesson as weU. The incident at Columbine High Sduxd demonstrates the violent consequences of exclusion. . Homosexuals are frequently the targets' of discrimination and violenoe. In a 1989 national survey 5 percent of gay men and 10 percent of lesbians reported physical 7. abuse or assault related to ..the election? being lesbian or gay in the last year; 47 To abolish tee electoral college and change the percent reported some form of dis- presidential elections to the popular vote is checked Repre-sentativ- of tee president of one party and a Now for tee state each popu- -: provides opposite party. lar election of electors, each party setting up a slate and those getting tee most votes in tee state cast Iheir ballots for their respective candidate. . ' One or two states may divide the vote of the electors according to results in tee congressional districts of the states. Proposals have come forward to divide tee electoral votes in each state proportionately to tee vote for each candidate on tee ballot ; The present system is an invitation for tampering . " as evidenced in the Florida vote and the llth-hofinal decision by tee Supreme Court el Contrast this with tee Rutherford Tilden race of 1876. A special electoral commission was called early in 1877 to decide tee contested re- -. ' turns when Tilden won tee popular vote by almost the same number as Al Gore djd this year. The commission, comprised of members of bote parties; some. U.S: Supreme Court justices and others, settled the . ' . |