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Martin, Editor Copyright 1994 by Applied Foresight Inc. All Rights Reserved. (Material by Individual Authors May Be Copyrighted Differently) Published by Applied Foresight, Inc. P.O. Box 20607 Bloomington MN 55420, USA CompuServe ID: 71510,1042 ----------------------------------------------------------- -- A Freeware Diskette-Magazine of Nonfiction & Fiction --- ------- Original & Reprints -- Published Quarterly ------- ------ ------ ----- "An International Debate Forum for Computer Users --- -------- Concerned about the Present and the Future" ------ ----------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ From the Editor's Desk: Hello again! I had originally planned to focus on the actual legislation of the Clinton Health Act this issue, however it seems to be dead although some form of socialist plan might be passed and in many ways these Democrat-Congress-sponsored plans feature many of the Clinton's socialist features but in a more hidden manner. For this reason, I am including two popular freeware files and one Policy Review Magazine Reprint on health care. This will be a very short intro column this issue; the magazine entries are interesting enough to stand by themselves. I've included some great Libernet postings from the Internet -- don't think that I agree wholeheartedly with each article, but they're definitely interesting enough that we should widely know about them. They sure beat much of what the popular media feeds you! Dan Druck, of the Council on Domestic Relations (CDR), has provided ShareDebate International with more interesting material. In one item, he goes on a tangent on our alleged trade imbalance with Japan which is an area I disagree with him completely, but otherwise he brings to our attention the most alarming news I've read in eons--that Congress is considering a dual currency--one for foreigners and another for domestic consumption. That nightmare is something previously only practices in statist mercantilist (such as used to be the case up to a year or so ago in India) or for communist countries. We must defeat this bill! Read the first piece in the file CDR.TXT! Neil Schulman, a past contributor to ShareDebate International again contributes by granting written permission to reprint his now BBS famous file in defense of the 2nd amendment. He has a book on the subject out now and one of his defenses of the second amendment appeared as a recent article in the National Review. His book is Stopping Power: Why 70 Million Americans Own Guns Synapse/Centurion Books, 1994. As for my own ideas on gun control, I lean towards the NRA stance but I do recognize that there has to be limits to the types of guns owned--for when there are rifle-sized atomic bomb guns, I don't think anybody should be able to acquire them! But I disagree with the liberal's current legislative proposals -- what I've read leads me to assess that more people will be killed not being able to defend themselves in time than will those be saved through the measures. Let's put it this way, would you want to live in a town that outlawed all guns except for the police and criminals? I wouldn't! Many of the accidents with guns could be minimized if we had laws mandating gun safety awareness knowledge (similar to driving license tests); if we required locked-gun lockers -- nothing big, just large enough to hold the gun -- to contain loaded guns in homes occupied by children for when the guns were not in use. The locks could be digital so that in an emergency, one could get his loaded gun out in less than 3-4 seconds. Proceeding on, a paper of my own is included on how to privatize welfare and eliminate its tax-based funding through a double-value tax deduction. I was asked by two Minnesota state legislators to write up this idea for legislative proposal analysis which it is undergoing now. I met these two legislators at the 1994 Minnesota GOP state convention where I was a seated delegate. (I was an alternate but because of no-shows, I was able to be seated and eligible to vote.) I know you'll like this issue! ### +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ MAGAZINE CONTENTS Because this issue is quite long, the individual entries are not all collapsed into this file. That way readers on non-MSDOS computers who don't have an ASCII file reader that can read in massively large files can read this issue -- all files are under 50KB apiece. Also all readers can quickly "jump" to the pieces that most interest them. This makes printing out what interests a person most convenient and avoids wasting paper and time. I hope you like this arrangement. LIST OF FILES AND CONTENT DESCRIPTIONS: CDR.TXT (Miscellaneous CDR e-mailings) * Government Plans 2 Currencies for USA * Colorado State Sovereignty Resolution by Dan Druck, Council on Domestic Relations DBLVALUE.TXT Privatizing Welfare By Funding It With a Double-Value Tax Deduction: Imagine Cutting Welfare Taxes 71 Percent Less But Increasing Welfare Handouts Over Threefold! by Roleigh Martin FRANKEN.TXT Clinton's Frankenstein: The Gory Details of the President's Health Plan by Robert E. Moffit (A Policy Review magazine reprint) HCRIGHT1.TXT Health Care Is Not a Right by Leonard Peikoff, Ph.D. (An Internet Newsgroup Posting Reprint) HCRIGHT2.TXT Is There a Right to Health Care? by David Kelley, Ph.D. (A Widely Available Posted File Reprint) LIBERNET.TXT (Miscellaneous Internet Libernet Postings) Global Warming: Apocalypse or Hot Air? An Institute of Economic Affairs (UK) Press Release Proposed Oregon Property Ownership Act by Ed Snook (Liberty Network) and Kevin Starret SCHULMAN.TXT REPLY TO THE EXECUTIVES OF THE ACLU OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ON THE MEANING OF THE SECOND AMENDMENT By J. Neil Schulman Author, Stopping Power: Why 70 Million Americans Own Guns Synapse/Centurion Books, 1994 (An Internet Newsgroup Posting Reprint) ### +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ End of this section of ShareDebate International; Information about the magazine, distribution policy, copyright statement, subscription and/or back-issue orders is in the file, SI_MISC.TXT +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++