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RAMBLER
Thursday, November 3, 1988
Page Two
Socialist alternative
The editors of tho Rambler
wanted to ahow member* of the
Texas Wesleyan community that
there era more than two choices
whan It comas to the elections,
Nov. I. W* would especially like
to thank Dr. Ed Olson for his en-
dorsement of the Libertarian par-
ty. We appreciate that ha stayed
within the MO word limit while
covering tho topic thoroughly.
No matter whom you support, re-
member to vote Nov. I. It It a
privilege people have died for.
• • *
Republican
standard
by Ray C. Brooks
The easiest way to win a pres-
idential campaign is to run
against the incumbent party
when the country is in economic
turmoil. Since unemployment is
lower than it has ever been, Du-
kakis and the Democratic Party
have tried to project a false feel-
ing of economic strife. At their
convention, they promoted ideas
like the "McDonalds” theory. The
theory says that unemployment
is down but that everybody is
working at fast food restaurants,
like McDonalds. Thus, “they are
worse off than they were before
because now they are only mak-
ing $3.35 an hour." To say that
someone is worse off when em-
ployed at minimum wage than
they were when unemployed is
utterly ridiculous.
Dukakis has shifted positions,
hoping to make himself into a
package the people of America
would buy. Since Americans want
a president who is tough on
crime, he has distanced himself
from his membership in the
American Civil Liberties Union.
Since Americans have shown
that they want SDI funding to
continue, Dukakis has modified
his position on SDI to say that
he would now support funding
when previously he thought it
was a waste.
Most Americans have been
shown to favor abortion. The
Republican candidate George
Bush has made it clear that he
is strongly opposed to abortion.
Bush has not let the popular
position of an issue dictate his
public position.
The one area of presidential
powers that the president has
more freedom than in any other
is foreign affairs. Bush has had
ample experience in this area.
As vice president, Bush has rep-
resented the President in many
countries. In his political career,
he has served as the ambassador
to the United Nations and di-
rector of the CIA.
Dukakis has had virtually no
foreign affairs experience, and
it shows. He has a great lack of
understanding when it comes to
the effect the United States has
on the relations of other nations.
Governor Dukakis has said that
he thinks the U.S. should rec-
ognize Jerusalem as Israel's cap-
ital. Some years ago, Israel
moved Its capital from Tel Aviv
to Jerusalem. The U.S. has re-
fused to recognize Jerusalem as
Israel's capital because it is dis-
puted territory.
The U.S.’s experience in the
Middle East has shown that it is
a very volatile area. To make
drastic changes in longstanding
policy can carry a heavy price.
Perhaps it is time for the U.S.
to make drastic changes in its
Middle East policy, but recogniz-
ing disputed territory as a na-
tion's capital is not one of them.
For the next four years. Bush
can lead this country down a new
path. Dukakis has failed to cap-
italize on the issues that are
damaging to the Republican
party. Since his inability to run
an effective campaign reflects
on his future performance as
president, he has failed to show
himself to be a possible effec-
tive president.
Democratic
challenge
by Amy Paige Welf
Election '88 has given new
meaning to bad rhetoric. Republi-
cans George Bush and Dan
Quayle have done an unfair job
of knocking Michael Dukakis'
legs out from under him. Du-
kakis has some extremely valid
complaints about the Reagan-
Bush Administration and some
valid remedies to combat those
complaints.
Bush boasts that he helped
create thousands of jobs in de-
fense, but he left out a few very
important details . . . like the
420,000 defense Jobs created
overseas in foreign markets and
the more than $19 billion of de-
fense money and U.S. tax dollars
that was spent on foreign produc-
tion.
In regard to foreign affairs, it
is true that Dukakis lacks the
experience Bush has cultivated,
yet this makes him no less of a
strong man at the bargaining
table. Dukakis sees that the great-
est danger in Central America is
not Marxism but poverty. He calls
for greater cooperation with La-
tin American countries to com-
bat drug trafficking, national
debt and trade without military
assistance.
On the home front, Dukakis
has been accused of being soft
on crime. Nothing could be fur-
ther from the truth when the
records are studied. Crime in
Massachusetts declined while the
nation’s crime rate increased.
Massachusetts also has the low-
est homicide rate of any indus-
trialized state.
Regarding education, the Rea-
gan-Bush Administration slashed
aid to education by 16 percent
and all but destroyed the college
opportunities for many to the na-
tion’s youth. Dukakis aims to re-
verse this attack on education by
allowing students to pay back
loans through lifelong payroll
deductions based on a percent-
age of their future income with-
out using government money.
Minorities and women face
greater battles for equality under
a Bush Administration, especially
in the area of pro-choice. Both
Bush and Quayle are strongly
opposed to abortion and they
leave no room for a woman's
right to choose. This violates a
woman’s right to privacy. One
may be morally opposed to abor-
tion, yet he should not deny an-
other or her right to choose for
himself. Under Bush, there would
be no choice.
Voters must keep in mind that
when choosing a president, a
potential president is also being
considered. Lloyd Bentsen is a
wise choice as vice president
with a long record of commit-
ment to Texas and to the people
of the United States. No more
needs to be said on the unquali-
fied choice of Dan Quayle.
Dukakis' platform deserves
merit for its changes that will
provide a better place for all —
rich, young, poor, old, educated
and uneducated — to live. It is
time for all classes to receive
the breaks, not just the wealthy.
The Democratic ticket will pro-
vide a fair and strong America,
an educated America and a com-
passionate America that has not
existed for a very long time.
Libertarian
position
by E. C. Olson, Ph.D.
Most young adults who attend
college are idealists; they be-
lieve that things can be improved
and brought closer to the best
that is possible. Moreover, they
believe themselves to be import-
ant to that exercise. It is because
of this precious trait that I ap-
peal to you, as a college student
to vote Libertarian.
The Libertarian Party platform
encompasses the ideals and prin-
ciples upon which this great coun-
try was founded: individual lib-
erty and personal responsibility.
The Republocrats postulate posi-
tions that are based on the im-
mediately popular political situa-
tion; there are no enduring ideals
to which they hold.
The libertarian positions on the
free market and civil liberties
are a model for anyone who is
attempting to define what the
U.S. Constitutions is all about.
Libertarians call for interna-
tional free trade, deregulation of
industries at home, and an end to
government legislations that fost-
ers special interests and favori-
tism. It is this authentic capitalist
stance that differentiates the Lib-
ertarian from the Republocrats
who deal in special legislation
for whoever votes for them, no
matter what principle of free
market enterprise is transgress-
ed.
Libertarians are not afraid to
take a stance for civil liberties
even when it means that votes
are lost. It might be a position
in favor of gay rights, or in
helping Reverend Otwell's effort
to give away food to street peo-
ple without a license.
Libertarians do not agree on all
civil liberties issues, e.g., abor-
tion, sexual preference, prostitu-
tion, smoking, drinking, but they
do agree that each person should
have the right to decide these
issues for themselves without
governmental intervention.
A vote for the Libertarian
Party is not a wasted vote. To
breathe life into idealism by vot-
ing Libertarian is an act of in-
tellectual courage for which each
of you could be proud. It would
be the souls of Jefferson, Lin-
coln, and King being brought to
life through your ballot.
Vote for Ron Paul for Presi-
dent.
by Bill Day
When Americans decide whom
they will vote for in elections,
they sometimes feel their choices
are limited to candidates of the
two major parties, Democratic
and Republicans. However, alter-
natives do exist. Socialist parties
and organizations also run can-
didates in elections, and are
sometimes successful. Socialism
offers alternatives that are more
populist and immediate for com-
mon people than either the Demo-
crats or Republicans.
As a democratic socialist, I
urge you to vote for socialist or
workers’ candidates on Nov. 8. In
Texas, few such candidates exist,
but in more enlightened states
(if you're voting by absentee
ballot) candidates to look for in-
clude Ed Winn of the Workers’
League. I urge you to vote for
Mr. Winn for president.
Democratic socialists believe
that all persons, whether black,
white, man, woman, minority,
homosexual, old, young, rich,
poor, ordinary or whatever, have
a right to participate in the poli-
tical processes of a democracy.
People also have the right to
reap the benefits of an industrial
society they have struggled to
build. Socialists believe that all
people, from cradle to grave,
have the right to health care,
education and other benefits of
an industrial democracy.
It’s no accident that the United
States is the only major industrial
society besides South Africa
without national comprehensive
health insurance, subsidized edu-
Dear Editor:
I would like to correct some
false information cited in the
editorial of 27 October, and also
to respond to the letter by Mr.
Vuillemot concerning the West
Library.
The West Library staff does not
deny use of the telephones after
dark. Anyone may ask to use
the telephone at the Circulation
or Reference Desks (if manned)
to place a local call. We do not
allow unrestricted use of the
phones during the day since (1)
a pay phone is available in the
basement (contrary to your edi-
torial), and (2) we have had calls
charged to the library by patrons
using an unsupervised phone
The staff of the West Library
is more than willing to provide
assistance if asked, and in the
future might I suggest that be-
fore criticizing library policy,
you verify that policy you would
like to criticize.
As an aside might I also point
out that "illicit” means unlaw-
cation or a national pension plan.
It is directly related to the fact
that the U.S. is the only major
industralized nation besides South
Africa without strong labor
unions or a strong socialist party.
We socialists would like to
repudiate the dangerous capital-
ist myth that those who work
hard enough will live out the
"American dream". There are
literally millions of hard work-
ing Americans who can’t afford
everyday necessities, let alone a
second car or a vacation home.
Under the Reagan administra-
tion, the number of families
under the poverty line has in-
creased, as has the number of
homeless, all at a time when the
government was conducting the
largest peacetime military build-
up in history and corporate giants
were getting mammoth tax
breaks.
Socialists stress that people
have to work together in order
for a democracy to work. For
too long, Americans have relied
on the upper class to make their
decisions for them The time has
come for the common people to
put an end to the rule of rich,
middle-aged white men and to
take charge of the political
process and make this country
what it is supposed to be: a
democracy.
Socialism is not a foreign
ideology; it embodies the best
tradition of the Declaration of In-
dependence — that all people are
created equal. A vote for social-
ism is a vote for progress and
unity.
ful. The word you probably
meant to use was “elicit,”
Next, I would like to respond
to Mr. Vuillemot's letter.
First, his complaints about the
computerized catalog have little
validity. The system is very eazy
to operate and one that allows
access to the collection in ways
not possible in a manual system.
If he had questions, he should
have asked for assistance.
His criticism of the ranges not
having labels is justified, and we
are in the process of correcting
the problem. He is wrong, how-
ever, in saying that the books
were in no "noticeable logical
order.” The books are arranged
in order by the Library of Con-
gress classification schedule
which is an alpha-numeric ar-
rangement, l.e., first alphabetic-
ally (A,B,C, etc.) and within each
letter, numerically (1,2,3,4, etc.).
Once again If he had questions
or problems, he should have ask-
ed for assistance.
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