simulating the budget (fwd)

[Dave Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>]

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.