Promoting mass purchasing power

[John K. Taber]

James Devine wrote:
> 
> At 11:01 AM 9/23/98 -0400, someone (Doug?) wrote:
> >>>Christopher Hitchens said last night that he hopes Kohl wins - he's within
> >>>two points in the latest polls. With Blair down, Clinton sort of down,
> these
> >>>Third Way folks need to take a whipping.
> 
> Brad wrote: >>For God's sake why?
> 
> >>Each defeat of the (relatively) left candidate moves the terrain of
> >>political engagement a bit further to the right...
> 
> Max writes:
> >Because the ultra-left case is so weak
> >it needs neo-fascism to which to compare
> >favorably.
> 
> >Unfortunately, at that point the ultra-left
> >will cease utterly to exist, along with not
> >a few of the rest of us.  But first things
> >first!
> 
> Max, why the spate of sectarianism? who are these "ultra-leftists" you're
> criticizing? why, specifically, are they wrong?

For me it's pretty simple. The SPD put itself on record in the 
Bundestag that if it wins it will roll back some of the anti-
Sozialversicherung legislation of the conservative Koalition.
For that reason I'm cheering for the SPD.

-- 
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them, I have others.

                                                      --Groucho Marx