From: hallam@Etna.ai.mit.edu
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1996 17:31:17 +0800
To: jamesd@echeque.com
Subject: Re: Noise: Re: Those Evil Republicans
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I'm somewhat at a loss to understand your comment "worst famine in modern
Russian history", since modern Russian history could at the earliest be
said to start with the liberation of the serfs there is remarkably little
"modern Russian history" that was not under communist rule. Indeed it is 
difficult to imagine that any worse famine did occur at any time in Russias
history, unless you were to count some of the effects of world war 2. 

Since the appologists for Stalin outside Russia number in the low thousands
I'm at a loss to understand the relevance of your point. 

Similarly your point about government control of currency is somewhat puzzling. 
Are you arguing that we are less prosperous today than we were in the 1920's?
If so that would be a somewhat curious argument which you will no doubt 
share with us. The only modern country I know of which does not control its
currency is Lichenstein which uses the Swiss Franc, I'm not sure what lessons
can be learnt from a country whose chief ecconomic activities are gambling
and facilitating tax evasion however.

Now it may be that Bob Dole is secretly planning a radical change in the
ecconomic direction of the country but somehow I doubt that the position of 
chairman of the Federal Reserve is going to be going away soon. Indeed I
have not heard any Repulicans mioving towards yor policies which to me
sound more like those of William Jennings Bryant than Bob Dole. 

	Phill