OFF: Re: Foot & Mouth

[ANDREW GARIBALDI]

maybe the band in the '80's (whose name I forget) that did the album 'The
Culling Is Coming' got it 15 years too early!!! Maybe it's coming
now............the earth fights back!!
Andy Garibaldi
----- Original Message -----
From: "Carl Edlund Anderson" <cea at CARLAZ.COM>
To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001 7:46 PM
Subject: OFF: Re: Foot & Mouth


> At 19.04 +0000 22.3.2001, ANDREW GARIBALDI wrote:
> >exactly - who the hell in the UK is there left to vote for in terms of
> >political parties - christ, we may have the power to vote but honestly
what
> >the hell use is it right now if you don't want he Conservatives Mk 1 (the
> >real Conservatives), the Conservatives Mark 2 (Labour), the Conservatives
> >Mark 3 (Liberal), the no-hopers (Scottish/Welsh Nationalists) or the
loonies
> >(practically everyone else including the Green Party) - hell, at least
> >America had a choice!!!!
>
> Yeah, and shot it down in the primaries! The US gave itsself a choice
> between between Rich Daddy's Boy Party Hack One and Rich Daddy's Boy
> Party Hack Two, neither of whom were particularly palatable. No
> wonder that election turnout tumbled and the results were so close
> and so confused.
>
> Unfortunately, UK poltics seems to be headed down exactly the same
> road.  Labour are pretty hopeless, but the Tories are probably worse,
> and who knows what the Lib Dems will do?  Like in the States, any
> real choice has been lost in a mire of career politicians playing
> one-upsmanship party-politics games. Meanwhile, there aren't any
> teachers, trains, hospitals, sheep, etc.
>
> I would admire the Lib Dems for saying that they think taxes actually
> need to be raised -- since the UK does occupy this weird,
> disfunctional middle ground between the US's low-tax
> low-public-services and Europe's high-tax high-public-services --
> except that I have absolute confidence that they would waste them
> just as well as Labour or the Tories. Ah, well, at least they're all
> more or less centrists ...
>
> On the other hand, being a dodgy foreign national, I don't get a say
> in who wastes my taxes, though I can vote for American politicians
> who will waste someone else's taxes. Go figure ...
>
> Cheers,
> Carl
>
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> Carl Edlund Anderson
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