From: New York
Date sent: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 16:12:26 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Pigeonhole Dots

TO: LOOPIES WHO COLLECT DOTS TO PIGEONHOLE

New York Post, Feb. 22: "Big Spenders. Uncritical supporters of certain borrow-and-squander governments will flip when they hear that the World Bank just shelled out $314 Million to refurbish its swanky Washington, DC headquarters. The international lender has been increasingly tough on its Third World clients, insisting they drastically cut domestic spending and use the surplus to pay back overseas creditors. So, reports The Nation magazine, while World Bank was busy importing giant pieces of rare African anegre wood to decorate its executive boardroom and putting in a gold-leaf ceiling, Zambia, Uganda and Ghana were stripping already austere education, health and social programs to avoid harsh late payment penalties. Those three countries paid World Bank nearly $300 million in 1994 -- almost the entire cost of the ritzy renovation." [What was Clinton's comment at his most recent New York fund-raiser at an obscenely lavish apartment: "This place makes the White House look like public housing."???]

Yesterday some altruistic teenagers came soliciting for the latest "caring" project: Sign up to pay them for going hungry for 24 or 48 hours to collect money to send to Africa. They said it was so they could see what it feels like to be hungry. With the above item and the way the current administration is obsessed with throwing money at everything in sight, it's not out of the realm of possibility that these poor deluded teens could soon find out FOR REAL how it feels to be hungry. We CANNOT keep up supporting all the bureaucracies involved in current profiteering and greedy practices, let alone those lining up to finish construction of Hillary's Village. It's very hard to refuse these kids and to find a way to try to "educate" them in five minutes on your doorstep. I did tell them that they didn't have to "earn money" to learn what it's like to go hungry; and, if they "care" they could find something concrete to do instead of begging money; and that we had many worthwhile causes we support and are not hard-hearted as they implied when I refused to sign their sponsor-me sheet. This is what is ahead with the "voluntary" mandatory community service. You WILL support politically-correct causes to help volunteers, because your choices of charities are not correct.

SECOND ITEM, same issue of NYP: Pat Buchanan is back writing columns again, and it is a treat to see his grasp of language and his ability to bring up politically-incorrect topics in a readable, thought-provoking way: "Under Fire: Symbols, heroes and holidays of an older America." He listed the litany of things that have been co-opted and thrown on the trash heap by the liberal agenda-pushers: "...These modernist campaigns have in common two things. They are all attacks on traditional symbols, icons, or heroes; second, none reflects the wishes of the great majority. When changes are made, they are ordered by unelected judges or produced by moral pressure from clamorous elites who are entering a claim that their symbols, heroes and holidays must have priority of place in a public square that is supposed to belong to all of us.

"Time after time, to advance social peace, traditionalists have caved in. Whether made out of a spirit of accommodation or moral timidity, these concessions have proven a mistake. For the left has not been mollified; there is no gratitude, no reciprocity." DO try to read the whole column, folks! Appeasement is feeding sandwiches to the alligators in the hope that they will be satisfied before they get to your knees. That's a maxim read somewhere years ago, and it keeps coming to mind every time I read the latest "make nice" events in D.C. and realize it's only a temporary lull while the alligator burps so it can more fully enjoy the next bite.