economic stats (as if people mattered)

Matt Cramer cramer at unix01.voicenet.com
Sun Nov 12 20:52:57 PST 2000


On Sun, 12 Nov 2000, Brad De Long wrote:


> You need to cut down on your daily dosage of Cockburn. Liberals are
> exercised by gun control becasue they don't like watching people get
> shot.

Meaning, white middle and upper class people. All that coverage on CNN of yuppies and/or their children getting shot is quite distressing and they're running out of benzodiazepine prescriptions.

And since CNN doesn't cover the violence among the poor or minorites - out of sight, out of mind.

Matt

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