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Understanding a female perspective
r ■ l his column is dedicated to th<
following: All you men oi
m campus who cheat on you
hometown girlfriends; all of you who
like to spread rumors; all of the two
faced people; and all you females who
have problems with other females
thinking they can take your man.
Warning: This is from
a female’s perspective.
I may not be speaking
for all females, but I am
speaking for most.
Men:
Come on fellas, how
can you play with my
mind and have me think
ing I am the only one?
I know who a lot of you are. You’re
the ones who have girls back home.
You tell them you truly love them, but
out here in school, you have other
girls like me who think you’re in love
with us.
And you may get upset with me,
but I know what some of yaw be up to.
Yes, I may be messing up your rap.
But I have to let all the ladies know
about ya.
I must be fair to all the strong men
out there. I know all of you aren’t the
same. I know a lot of you are true.
But I must give the ladies fair
warning about the rotten ones.
You rotten men will chill with a
female at school nine months out oi
the year and then when the summer
comes around, you’re back in the
arms of your hometown loved one.
That ain’t even right. And I must
stop calling you men, because only
boys play those silly little games.
Love is not to be played with.
Either you let your hometown love
go or you stick with her and only her.
Now that’s what I call a man — one
who can control his lower desires and
^ has the strength to acknowledge his
i true sweetheart.
If somehow you fall out of love
with your hometown love, you should
let her know. I think you’d get more
respect then, than if she found out by
a third party that you was digging
your bones in someone else’s back
yard.
Ladies, we must understand there
are true, legit men out here. They may
be hard to find, but they are worth the
wait.
I’d rather be single long enough to
find the right man tfian to go in and out
of relationships neiver being satisfied
(and I have finally found the right
man).
Ladies, the right man just might be
under your nose and you are paying
him little or no attention.
Take to heart what I say, but al
ways keep your guard up. For it’s
when you put that guard down that
you’ll be attacked by problems that
you can’t control.
Take rumors:
They are always very juicy andean
get you really excited.
Rumors are usually negative and
can cause a lot of pain. Those of us
who like to spread rumors need to stop
before they end up coming to our
town.
Sometimes rumors can be conta
gious.
I’m sure many of us have heard
many a people say, “But I ain’t one to
gossip,” or “You ain’t heard it from
me.” Before spreading a rumor, we
should make sure it doesn’t get back
to us because then we will be in the
spotlight.
We must remember, if we can’t
end a rumor, we shouldn’t start one.
Two-faced people:
Don’t talk about us behind our
backs. If you have something to say
about us, don’t tell someone else, just
tell us.
Let us know if you can prove your
point, and you think it’s valid. We’ll
listen to you. But you must under
stand, we will be straight with you.
If you can’t handle that, then you
should keep your trap shut!
But you know, communication can
end a lot of the bickering between
people. So if you have a problem with
any of us, or you ’ ve heard a rumor that
one of us just may have passed along,
just ask us and we’ll tell you.
It’s a lot easier than to assume.
To the back-stabbing females who
want to take other women’s men and
to those women who can’t seem to tell
them to step off:
You can’t have him. He’s mine!
I have tried to subtly tell you, but
since you have been ignoring my ob
vious connotations, I’m telling ya now.
Keep your hands off.
Although my man may seem irre
sistible to you and you just KNOW
that you will eventually get him, I
have to shed a little light into yOur
dark, blue lonely nights. He’s mine!
Women, grow up and stop ruining
other people’s lives justbecause yours
is turned upside down.
Why do to others what you wouldn ’ t
want done to you?
If you keep playing the little games,
the next victim just may be you.
But ladies, we need to still have
faith in our men. We have to trust that
they’ll do what’s right. Don’t be so
busy always wondering what they are
doing —»just keep your eye on girl
friend over there.
Spurlock is a junior broadcasting and
news-editorial journalism major, a Daily
Nebraskan night news editor and a colum
nist
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Perceived cuts gyp middle class
Lei s round up all the wealth)
Americans and force them ontc
the new Astroturf at Memorial
Stadium. Then we can fill the stadium
with 76,000 average, middle-class
citizens and let them pummel the
jwealthy with rocks and
eggs.
At the end ol the day,
we’ll load the wealthy
aboard the Space Shuttle
Fairness and dump them
somewhere in the far
reaches of the galaxy,
left to float in space.
- To complete the event,
the government will seize all of the
money and assets left behind and dis
tribute the fortune evenly among the
remaining society. The upper and
lower classes will be eliminated, and
everyone in the United States will be
on an even economic playing field.
Fifty years later, an astonishing
observance could be made. American
society would once again include a
poverty class and a wealthy upper
nlacc
This illustration represents a cold,
hard fact: Rich and poor people will
always exist in American society.
Many Americans still believe that
fairness can be created by redistribut
ing the wealth from the rich to the
poor. Liberals constantly seek to tax
the rich to create economic fairness.
In reality, only the perception of fair
ness is created by such a policy.
Liberals should realize it is wrong
to penalize someone for working hard
and achieving a high level of success.
Penalizing the rich docs not benefit
anyone, and actually harms the middle
and lower classes.
For some reason, rich Americans
arc seen as evil and cold-hearted. On
TV cartoons, Scrooge McDuck piles
his money into bins and swims in it.
Rich people don’t behave this way
in reality. The wealthy spend, invest,
and pul their money at risk doing
everything possible to make it grow.
This is awful hard to do without in
vesting in resources such as materials,
supplies and people.
I’m not rich—not yet any way, but
I don’t think wealthy Americans arc
bad people. They haven’t stolen their
money from me. I am thankful there is
an upper class.
Hopefully, when I graduate, one of
these rich moguls will offer me a good
job. I would much rather work for a
successful, profitable business than
one struggling to survive.
From an ethical standpoint, it is
wrong to penalize someone for achiev
ing success. After all, success is bred
into the American dream. If we dis
courage people from prospering, the
new American dream will include
standing in a cheese line.
There is nothing wrong with suc
cess.
Success by one person docs not
automatically mean that someone else
must fail. In reality, a thriving indi
vidual or business will help others to
prosper and result in increased profit
ability, job creation, and purchasing
power.
The issue of helping the poor is
always an important concern. But
those who think taxing the rich is the
solution arc dead wrong. When taxes
on the rich increase, the middle and
lower classes pay the price.
Consider the luxury lax hike on
vat'hK imnnsftd in 1QQO Di'miv raK
championed the idea and quickly made
plans to spend the increased lax rev
enue. The money never came in.
Consumer behavior is not constant.
It changes as situations change. Lib
erals made revenue estimations based
on current spending patterns. The
wealthy refused to pay the higher
price for the boats. The revenues real
ized were actually less than those
expected before the tax increase.
The worst aspect of the luxury tax
increase involves the implications for
the middle class. With decreased
demand for boats, production halted
and left scores of middle-class boat
builders out of work.
The middle class who applauded
the lax on the rich suddenly found
themselves standing in unemployment
lines.
The same situation also results from
other typesof tax increases. Examples
include increased taxes on luxury cars,
industrial vehicles in New Jersey Junk
food in California, capital gains taxes,
etc.
Consumers and workers will al
ways pay the price for tax increases.
Taxes arc a cost of doing business.
Increased taxes will cither raise prices
or force businesses to shrink or close.
In the 1980s, President Reagan cul
taxes on the rich and businesses. Foi
10 years, the United Stales experi
enced the greatest peacetime expan
sion in this nation’s history.
Since Reagan took office in 1980,
more than 20 million jobs have been
created. From 1980 to 1990, the
m idd le-c lass fam i ly ’ s mean net worth
rose by 23 percent, a larger increase
than that of the upper class. Who says
that trickle-down economics failed?
Democrats claim thatcutling taxes
results in lost revenues, and that the
growth of the ’80s was funded with
national debt. This is not true. Despite
Reagan’s tax cuts, total tax revenues
during the period increased. To be
more accurate, the tax revenues of the
’80s increased at the same rate as
economic growth.
Cutting taxes creates economic
expansion, providing new jobs, new
taxpayers and increased tax revenues.
By lowering tax rates, the tax base is
broadened. Would you rather sell 10
apples for $2 each, or 15 apples for
SI.50 each?
No, the national debt wasn' t caused
by tax cuts; it was caused by massive
government spending. Thank your
Democratic Congress for that.
As the 1992 campaign rolls along,
one party will talk1 about taxing the
rich. The other party will talk about
lax cuts and economic growth. If you
think taxing the rich will make your
life better, think again.
The rich will always be rich, and
there will always be a poverty class. It
is not possible to legislate fairness.
The only effective solution is to ad
here to American capitalist values
and to create an environment with
opportunity for everyone to succeed.
It is not right to penalize success,
nor should we subsidize failure. We
should not favor a policy simply be
cause it restricts someone else. The
only policy worth celebrating is the
one that truly helps ourselves.
In this year filled with political
rhetoric, let’s avoid the failures of
perceived fairness, and seek the re
wards of reality.
Hankins Is a senior business student ma
joring in finance, management and econom
ics and a Daily Nebraskan columnist.
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