[lit-ideas] Re: Should Chirac join Bush in oblivion?
- From: Judy Evans <judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 15:12:51 +0000
Sunday, October 31, 2004, 2:15:16 AM, Eric Yost wrote:
EY> Earlier in her post, Judy wrote that my her post was related to mine as
EY> " In the same way as -- and as much as -- your post relates to Didier's.
EY> Not that mine was intended to relate directly to the contents of his
EY> post or your response."
EY> I see. I posited that the French may have reasons to dispose of their
EY> leader, just as Americans have to dispose of Bush. Your interpolation of
EY> American consumption and waste is somehow equally germane to the
EY> discussion? How so? Because the French are less extravagantly
EY> consumer-driven, they are not subject to the same appeals to justice,
EY> such as Didier gave?
Let me try to explain, by means of a recap. Didier gave reasons why
the US should vote Bush out. You replied by giving a reason, of a
different kind, why the French should vote Chirac out. I then posted
giving yet another kind of reason why the US should vote Bush out. You
1) suggested my post was inherently irrelevant, as it wasn't about
either Didier's points or your (different from Didier's) point, 2) (as
your latest post shows) misread it anyway.
My question, as my
>>>How a leader treats the citizens of his/her country matters
>>>tremendously; (etc.)
was intended to suggest, concerns not the first 1.5-6 paragraphs of
the piece I quoted, but the remaining 2.5/4. I repeat them here,
adding that I cut, for reasons of space, a passage that said the US
was now the most unequal country in the world.
>>>Is France like this?:
>The Independent
>Andrew Buncombe reports 30 October 2004
>As America prepares to go to the polls in what may be the most
>important election in a generation, the gap between its rich and poor
>is greater now than at any time in the past 75 years.
>Ironically perhaps, nowhere in America is the divide greater than in
>the nation's capital. In Washington, site of vast marble monuments
>designed to encapsulate the nation's founding ideologies and pay
>homage to its greatest heroes, the statistics are nothing less than
>extraordinary: figures collated by the DC Fiscal Policy Institute
>show the average annual income of the top 20 per cent of households
>in the city stands at $186,830, which is 31 times the average income
>for the lowest 20 per cent, which somehow struggle by on an
>astonishing $6,126.
>"The divide between rich and poor is probably greater now than it has
>been since 1929," said Edward Wolff, professor of economics at New
>York University
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