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Jajasoon Tlitteu <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 22 Feb 1995 20:35:48 CST
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A colleague of mine wrote this out for my local listserver & I had to share
it.  If you have contributions, feel free to post them to this list, but
send a copy to [log in to unmask] so he can keep the master list.
And to Larry Jarvik - you might want to let us know Newt's official plans
for this matter.
 
>Now that the only non-military service the Federal Government will soon be
>providing is recommendations for video rentals, I've been thinking that we
>should offer our expertise as media scholars for the operation of this
>"empowering" program.
>
>The Government's merger with Blockbuster Video is a foregone conclusion (I
>believe it's in one of the later sections of the Contract With America,
>right after the section making masturbation a Class 1 felony); I suggest the
>new entity should be called Block-Grant Video.  This way, Federal aid to
>states could come in the form of 2 for 1 video vouchers.  Since Newt has
>already suggested "Boys' Town" to solve the problem of impoverished children
>and "Field of Dreams" to end the baseball strike, maybe we could help him
>out with some more suggestions.
>
>What are some videos which could alleviate the funding for:
>  --  School lunches
>  --  CPB
>  --  NEA & NEH
>  --  the United Nations
>  --  AFDC
>  --  Public housing
>  --  Public schools
>  --  anything with the word "public" in it
>  --  the Post Office
>  --  Roads (who'll need 'em in the information economy, anyway?)
>
>With the franchise possibilities of the future United States of Block-Grant
>Video, I don't think *we* need to worry about our jobs!  There'll always be
>a demand for mediated panacea, and we're the experts.
>
>Forward this around, and we can present our suggestions to Newt himself!
>
>--  DK
>
 
The favorite response I've seen so far is a double shot for school lunches
& Prop. 187:  "Eating Raoul."
 
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over 2000 years, and Microsoft has only been using them for 3, so we figure
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