Correspondence: Fan Mail, Whither Delaware? & c.
C 0 R RESPONDENCE Fighting the Conspiracy Why don't you right-wing extremists drop dead! If you think the people of this country are stupid enough to buy the distorted, one-sided bulls— that you...
...Like Sherman's march to the sea, Stephen Moore's literary rampage through the Metroliner corridor leaves leftist, anti-business Boswash in smoking tatters...
...The OH-58A through OH-58C models are called the Kiowa and are essentially nothing more than the military version of a Bell Helicopter Model 206 Jet Ranger...
...Despite its welfare-state decrepitude, the crumbling Northeast is a cash cow for the federal leviathan...
...For serious readers who are not interested in the personal agendas so blatantly revealed by your writers and contributors, your purpose serves no tangible benefits whatever...
...The billions will be raised by massive new state taxes and bond issues...
...Army Aviator...
...The reason is, he seems to be a good honest man who does his job and doesn't waste taxpayer money using his time to unseat this president...
...Delaware consistently sends more in tax revenue to Washington than it receives in federal spending...
...DAN MCCLINTON Fort Hood, Texas Played for the Soccer Alas my faith in TAS has been shaken and John Corry is responsible...
...The issues surrounding this president aren't news, they never were and they're not going to be, period...
...Contrary to the TAS article's premise, Financial World magazine (November 1997) ranks Delaware as second in the country in which to start up a business...
...This in no way should excuse the criminal actions of a pack of cowardly traitors...
...No, the American people don't care because they know what you know (but won't admit...
...Consider Governor Christine Whitman of New Jersey, who despite refusing to take a no-newtaxes pledge, won a squeaker victory on an anodyne-sounding promise to do something about high property taxes...
...Whether he is on "Crossfire," "Capital Gang," or whatever, Bob Novak, with his superb wit, and his astute, penetrating comments and questions has been my long-time favorite...
...What he has is a job, nothing more...
...If you think you're ready for a challenging position with one of America's most talked-about magazines, send a résumé and a short writing sample to: kinericanSpeitator Attn: N. Roberts P.O...
...Clinton may have a "bumbling policy" toward Iraq that would imply incompetence but a more sinister truth could be that it is deliberate accommodation...
...Anyone who deals with that lot of terrorists should be strung up in the town square...
...That is, all politicians have some skeletons in their closet...
...The OH-58D is known as the Kiowa Warrior and is significantly different from the previous models...
...The American Spectator often takes pride in pointing out the over-generalizations and inaccuracies of the mass media...
...If anything, Delaware does quite well without much help from the Federal Gov10 March 1998 • The American Spectator ernment...
...MICHAEL N. CASTLE Member of Congress Delaware, At-Large Washington, D.C...
...In an effort to make his case that every state northeast of Virginia is part of a "modern-day rust belt," Stephen Moore apparently overlooked facts about Delaware that did not fit in with his goal of writing off the entire Northeast and Mid-Atlantic as "hostile to employers, with oppressive tax rates, skyrocketing welfare rolls and a flood of citizens who are leaving through its gates...
...I will certainly buy the book...
...Hardly...
...Rather than "obese social welfare programs," welfare rolls have been reduced dramatically in Delaware through its welfare to work programs...
...The upshot is that the Republican Party isn't going to "write off this dying region," for the same reason that it didn't repeal the hated 1993 Clinton tax hike which propelled its 1994 electoral triumph...
...People are moving to the First State, not escaping it...
...LYNETTE FAZIO via the Internet I can't tell you how wonderful it is to see a bunch of "journalists" like yourselves, who if not for this president would be chasing UFO's, spend your career finding as much dirt as you can on this president only to see that the American people don't give a damn...
...I know it is convenient for some to try to dismiss areas outside of the South and west as hostile to free enterprise and smaller government...
...This was based on many criteria, including the cost of doing business: business and income growth...
...NATHALIO M. CAPLAN El Cajon, California I would like to point out a small error in the UNSCOM article...
...Is it because the "main stream media" is not doing its job in reporting...
...Maybe someday, like the Enquirer, you will simply disappear from WE WANT YOU...
...The American Spectator is seeking two smart, well-read, conscientious people to become our newest editorial assistants...
...reduced the estate tax in 1997...
...Delaware's per capita state and local government spending for public welfare programs is the eighth lowest in the United States...
...If the mid-Atlantic coast would but mutate into a political clone of the Gulf coast, Moore would have us believe, Republicans in Washington already would have closed four cabinet departments, privatized Social Security, and passed national right-to-work...
...In the section of the article concerning the arrest of Robert Fairchild for plotting to sell thirty-four OH-58A helicopters to Iraq, those helicopters were referred to as the Kiowa Warrior armed recon helicopter...
...Soccer when she was in junior high...
...education level of employees...
...MICHAEL BROWNING Fair Lawn, New Jersey The One and Only Robert D. Novak's review of Ambrose Evans-Pritchard's The Secret Life of Bill Clinton alone was worth the price of the January issue of TAS...
...It consists of having the state spend up to $12 billion to upgrade school buildings, thus taking the burden off local government...
...Certainly long enough for any weapons to be conveniently relocated...
...As for being cold on the playing field, I don't think so...
...Box 549 Arlington, VA 22216-9549 the public landscape and we can return to granting our officials the dignity and respect that is their due...
...Actually, one ray of snowbelt sunshine which escapes Moore's ken is that, even if merely from economic inertia, it enjoysabove-average incomes...
...Keep up the good work, folks...
...This kind of bumbling action can hardly be due to incompetence and is more easily attributable to deliberate favors...
...I thank him for putting up with fools like Mark Shields, Al Hunt, Margaret Carlson every Saturday on "Capital Gang...
...The TAS article says all states in the region suffer from "oppressive tax rates," choosing to ignore the fact that Delaware has no sales tax...
...If you want to do some good, get Senator John McCain to run, I'd vote for him even though he's a Republican...
...This is an excellent opportunity to break into journalism (our departing assistants are taking important newspaper jobs...
...With just one thin page separating his February column from Mark Steyn's "Liar, Liar," he lets Hillary's latest whoppers go unchallenged...
...It is, however, disgusting...
...As for economic opportunity for our residents, Delaware ranks eleventh in the country in per capita personal income, and is always among the leaders in low unemployment rates, and percentage of new job growth...
...I wonder how much of Hussein's money made its way to the '96 campaign...
...Anyone who plays or has played outdoor sports knows that standing (Continued on page 87) 12 March 1998 The American Spectator...
...reduced income tax rates three times from 1984 to 1992, and two more times from 1992 to 1997...
...Two weeks after the election, the Republican governor revealed her plan...
...If you think the people of this country are stupid enough to buy the distorted, one-sided bulls— that you print in this rag of yours then you are gravely mistaken...
...The '58D has a larger, more powerful engine, a mast-mounted sight which appears as a beach ball shaped object above the main rotor blades, and it is capable of carrying up to four Hellfire missiles or a combination of numerous other types of weapons...
...and, low percentage of business failures...
...Lord knows I wouldn't want you guys on the streets...
...Many voting Americans, like myself, resent this continued harangue against President Clinton and his wife...
...David Bloom on the White House lawn only means one thing, trouble—and he's there a lot...
...Money magazine ranks Wilmington, Delaware as 52 out of 300 best places to live, beating out other popular cities across the nation...
...He gave us his résumé, we looked it over and hired him...
...by Stephen Moore, TAS, December 1997...
...In fact, Delaware has almost an exact balance of elected Republicans and Democrats at both the state and federal levels...
...Now I voted for the guy, even I think he's a crook, but last time I checked, we had very few saints in this world...
...They see Congress holding hearings on this president and wonder how much illegal money they have taken...
...These are entry-level positions, in which you will be responsible for assisting the editors in evaluating manuscripts, handling correspondence, checking facts and figures, proofreading copy from our reporters, and other fascinating tasks too numerous to mention here...
...During the past year, Delaware led the nation in the creation of financial services jobs and was eighth in the nation in overall job growth...
...At first glance, recent events seem to confirm Moore's analysis...
...Delaware's population grew 8.8 percent from 1990 to 1996, which is substantially more than the national average...
...School tax is the largest component of property tax...
...Unfortunately, these faults are evident in your own article ("Is the Northeast Necessary...
...Long live the Democrats and the liberal agenda...
...and, is proposing additional tax cuts for 1998...
...RAY via the Internet What Did Delaware...
...Successful candidates will have at least passing familiarity with the "issues of the day," and be able to craft a persuasive sentence or two...
...The moralistic stands so many Republicans seem to tout do not appear to encompass the basic necessity for truth...
...Leaving through its gates...
...CHARLES A. KRAMER Tehachapi, California U-2, Brute Thank you for Laurie Mylroie and James Ring Adams's excellent article "UNSCOM's Scum of the Earth" (TAS, January 1998) but I think you failed to take the next logical step...
...These demographics, colliding with the progressive federal tax code, result in the Northeast sending more money to Washington than it receives...
...economic potential...
...Once this took place we "challenged" Iraq by resuming the fly-overs...
...Let's see, that would be circa 1960 when only the homophonous version of the game, sock'er as practiced by Bill Clinton's stepdaddy and mom, was known in the USA...
...To launch smear campaigns against a sitting president is nothing new...
...But the chink in Moore's elaborate persuasive armor is his anachronistic, childlike notion that the Republican Party stands for "more freedom, less government...
...But the author should have taken a more objective look at what is actually happening in Delaware...
...Delaware's business tax structure is a major factor in attracting financial services and other businesses to the state...
...Our response was to quickly shut down any flights for almost two weeks...
...Namely, Republicans need the swag to fund their pork-barrel, patronage empire in Washington...
...Truly, northeastern Republicans and Democrats gather in one large tent to worship big government...
...The author also believes that the states he critiques are unlikely to elect Republicans...
...At the height of the "crisis" when UNSCOM personnel were about to search some areas Hussein did not want searched, he threatened to shoot down any U-2 flights...
...If that's "more freedom and less government," I'll lick the snow off my sidewalk this winter...
...In the way of armament this aircraft can carry two air-to-air Stinger missiles or a 7.62mm minigun...
...BOB DODELIN via the Internet I suppose for there to be a true democracy, certain publications such as yours will be welcomed...
...Dream on, pal...
...By the way, my experience with these helicopters comes from ten years as a U.S...
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