Black humour -- but I think one of the few appropriate comments I have seen on Kyoto Colin Stark ************** (some lines stripped out) >Date: Mon, 29 Dec 1997 14:35:02 +0000 >Received: from rm-rstar.sfu.ca [142.58.120.21] > by cottage with esmtp (Exim 1.82 #1) > id 0xmmPV-00029t-00; Mon, 29 Dec 1997 13:07:41 -0800 >Received: from fraser.sfu.ca (fraser.sfu.ca [192.168.0.101]) > by rm-rstar.sfu.ca (8.8.7/8.8.7/SFU-4.0H) with SMTP id MAA25890; > Mon, 29 Dec 1997 12:56:38 -0800 (PST) >From: Sid Shniad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (LABOR-L), > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Progressive Economists' Network) > >> Date: Fri, 19 Dec 1997 10:02:39 EST >> Subject: anti-bludgeoning treaty >> >> SENATE COOL TO BLUDGEONING TREATY >> >> Liverpool, England -- Diplomats from more than 160 nations approved >> the world's most comprehensive anti-bludgeoning treaty, which requires >> participating nations to bring about reductions in the bludgeoning >> deaths of children and elderly, starting in the year 2008. >> >> In the waning hours of the conference, delegates wrestled over the >> final details before reaching an accord. Under it, the European Union >> would reduce fatal and crippling bludgeoning by 8% below 1990 levels, >> the U.S. by 7%, and Japan by 6%. Many U.S. businessmen feel betrayed. >> Their understanding had been that bludgeoning need not fall below >> the 1990 level. They were not assuaged by the fact that anti-mayhem >> legislation would not begin to be enforced until 2008. >> >> Negotiators fell short of a second major U.S. goal -- vouchers. >> Most U.S. senators have said they are unlikely to approve a treaty that >> doesn't allow the United States to purchase trauma vouchers from nations >> who have overfulfilled their quotas. Without the credits, a coalition >> of blunt-instrument makers, led by Louisville Slugger, will bring >> terrific pressure to bear on the Senate to just say no. Other lawmakers >> said they would vote the treaty down because some less industrialized >> nations were not required to reduce bludgeoning. "We have to reduce, >> but China doesn't?" said an angry Newt Gingrich. "How fair is that?" >> >> Milton Friedman and other nobel prize winning economists are on record >> as saying that attempts to interfere with bludgeoning will slow sales >> of two by fours and ball peen hammers, likely send the economy into a >> tailspin, and raise bludgeoning costs through the roof. > >
