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Kece2es3 to sry, money tolhs. - ' -The
amount cf money iclbybg croups spend to
fcussr.ee Congressmen Is astronomical In the lost
quarter cf this year, lobbyists spent about .$12
in attempts to swey the opinions of our
country? leg'.elatcrs, according to an Associated
Pree j ctary in The Lincoln Star Nov. 22. ,
The. t c dds up to be about a 20-percent increoe 2 to
epeadirg from the fj-ct three months of 1C03. And
AP predicts that the ccet could rise even hfher nest
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. The Leadline of the article read '"Cost'cf in-'
fluencing Congress . skyrockets. like .any com
racdlty, ir: fmer.ee in Congress cents money. And
beeaure the customers are industrial giants -end
marelve lobbying organizations, they can tf.ord to
pay the price. , -
, That headline was indicative cf a general com
placency I sense about the buying and selling cf
political power. Our political, machine is. shame
lessly greedy, and easily influenced by lobbyists and
. advertieirg campaigns. :'"
"American- Telephone & Telegraph, almost the
entire insurance industry and a whole, passel of
right and left wing lobbying conglomerates in
fluence congressmen (buy votes) with advertising,
and mailings to voters in districts represented by
key legislators.
Nothing illegal about it Gut since the insurance
industry, AT&T and industry in general possess the
Greatest bulk cf money, the lower clos3 ee-ment of
our society is let without a way to "muencc" their
elected congressman.' A letter from Joe mith of
Lincoln just decent have the impact that a cc'n
. certed $2 million lobbying campaign has. .
limits should be placed on the amount cf money,
lobbying frcups can-spend to influence cur le-.'.
gislators. The people cf the districts should have the -'
greatest influence on legislators, not industry. ; ;
. The unbalanced lobbying situation seems small
when compared to the buy and sell techniques of
the pervasive and persuasive Political Action Com
' raittecs that have spread throughout Washington.
PACa place large amounts cf mer.ey into com pa' gn
funds in order to secure "influence." Unless a con-' '
didate i3 already a multi-railiionairc, he cr she at one ,
time or another will hove to nuzzle up to one of these '
organizations for money. " "' , ;'".. ,
Hence, our government represents rich people. It
represents these who can buy votes through PACs
and lobbyists. The politicians usually are rich, too.
me lower classes of our society still have the vote,
but without organization and lots cf money, their
votes arent very influential -
The only way to curb the spending is to put limits
on it limits for congressmen and presidential
candidates. Dont count on it, though. Unless the
"Curb Political Spending Coalition" can get an or
ganized lobbying effort and form a PAC, I doubt
Congress will take the thought into consideration.
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One nation, under Reagan, indivisible
Our country is not a "democracy." You will not
find the word "democracy" in our Constitution, in
our Declaration cf Independence or in any of our
state constitutions. ; ;
Technically, the United States is a representative
"Republic" -i:. . - : -; '
; In a democracy everybody, votes on everything:
mob rule.
In a republic we elect men to make decisions in
ourbeholL .-.
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:retieal!y, we elect our best ratal .'.
:ioHy, we are a democracy "equal rights
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But ccltieal!y.: we are a Hraublie.
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Then came the autumn1 cf 1CC3 ' when we, the
traillr.l that cf both Llcndale end GI
revol n
Grenada politicians, pundits and professors
condemned the. "hip-shooting cowboy president
who was surely leading us into war."
But then they heard from you.
You, the people, began to call and wire the White
House and the Congress, to respond to television
' ;cnd telephone surveys. ..' , ViA-5'
: And you supported the president two-to-one,
then five-to-one, then eight-to-one. '
And what do you know! Suddenly bur nation's
Je-drr3l-r3'fa!!owcT'fccthrth2 elected'-iftS;
, ; Until the most recent tally showed you sopportin i
reversed
United States' in
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lish what this one is accomplishing.
For a president to sell an economic philosophy of
less government handouts" and a foreign policy of
"intervention" requires a personal magic which our
nation has net 'experienced since Franklin Eoose-
velt- ';;;--''"'.: . .. . , '
; ' Our American system of government whatever
its designation and its imperfections is still able to
was -' reSect the good s ense of cam Street :
ident two-to-one u Ey then, even Tip Olleill
himself SCO - deuces ; to:::concede, "The
cr charisma could not accomp-
The high and the mirhty rot humbled when you
used Western Union, i!a Coll and the professional
nose counters to throw a little democracy at em!
123, Les Asczlz Uses Ex:i
Pclivieions, looldng to an' ' election ' year, were
sniping at him. Including some within his cirm pexty
Then when ha dispatched American forces to.
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hs rcrasmbered one week he was gsfcg to go on a
diet and had decided not to eat hamburgers or'
french fries. He wasnt that much overweight, she '
thought. But he seemed bothered by it, so she
encouraged him. She had a hamburger , that day,
though, the never ate fries. By Wednesday he had a
hamburger, but c!idnt have any fries. He had both
r gain by Friday. He laughed it ofl He didnt seem as
down on hirrr.f o he had on Ilonday, either. Che .
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la" Letters
Day After
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Larry Sparks' editorial (Daily Nebraskan, Nov. 22)
criticizes ABCs production of "The Day After" be
cause "it doesn't take a television movie for us to
: know that a nuclear war would be horrible." i
I'm not entirely sure this is true, for just as our
memory of the paths to past holocausts seems
menaciny brief, so doss, our current "will to dis
believe" nullify any attempt to confront the horror
of death in a nuclear exchange. Mankind has had,
mercifully, little experience with such a possibility.
In this respect, ABC has done us a great service if
enjy to remind us of one of many possible futures.:
To accuse the production of being one-sided is
ludicrous. "The Day After" was a scenario with little
ambition to sway its audience toward the "high
frontier," "peace through strength" or a "nuclear
freeze." Its purpose was to shock us out of our
dangerous reverie long enough to confront the
nuclear question seriously for the first time in a long
time. From the multitude of posters and the muted
discussion that filled our hallways last week, I would
say it was successful:.'.' '-'.vv ;
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a gun. How could anyone cut their wrists? He'd read
somewhere that people who cut their wrists really
didnt want to die. They just wanted attention. It
was stupid to think of those things.
He sat in his chair and looked out the window and
. thought cf the wrong side of life. The side he had
already lived. It's a dangerous thing to think cf v. hen
you're alone. Especially when the ether side b so
much longer when you're 19.
' t Damn, he thought, damn when you cant even be
happy without it making you sad in the long run.
That must be the most hopeless part, he thought
Yea cant even remember the happy times without
being r ad becauee they're gone. Are all the happy;
. times geirtg to ta that way? ' '-, '.
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