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Re: For Sale: TI-85 Graphing Calculator ViewScreen Calculator & Kit
Let's see... What all is in this TI-85 photo/package? How much will
it cost?
Steve
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From: Bryan Rabeler <rabelerb@PILOT.MSU.EDU>
To: <CALC-TI@LISTS.PPP.TI.COM>
Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2000 2:01 PM
Subject: Re: For Sale: TI-85 Graphing Calculator ViewScreen Calculator & Kit
> > > That's way off topic, but since you mention it, what has Bill Clinton
done
> > > for me? Balance the federal budget? No, wait, that was the
Republican
> > > congress.
> >
> > Uh... WHO was President at the time? You might do better crediting
Reagan
> > with balancing the budget via trickle-down. Just ignore the fact that it
> > began 15 years prior, that few believed in it, and that the deficit
under
> > him grew astronomically.
>
>
> Note that neither Clinton nor the Republican Congress could have passed
the
> "balanced budget" without the other one's approval. Also note that due to
the
> "emergency spending" that goes on in Congress, and all the "off-budget"
> programs, we _really_ don't have a true balanced budget yet.
>
>
> > > Provide national health care? No, wait, he couldn't get that
> > > past a congress that was dominated by his own political party. Oh
yes,
> > now
> > > I remember, he raised my taxes!
> >
> > Aren't you thinking of George Bush? Oh, wait. HE didn't raise taxes--he
> > promised he wouldn't--we read his lips--remember? Yeah. It must have
been
> > the Democrat-dominated congress.
>
>
> Since we are in the business of showing everyone's "broken
promises"...Didn't
> Clinton promise to remove the ban on gays in the military? Didn't he
promise
> universal health care coverage? Didn't he plan to save social security
AND
> medicare? Gosh what happened there?
>
>
> > But WHO was president when the Dow and NASDAQ rose to all-time highs? Or
> > should we credit the Republican congress? Or Alan Greenspan? Didn't
Reagan
> > appoint him? Yeah. Credit Greenspan.
>
>
> Alan Greenspan. Also credit the tech. industry, which is mostly
responsible for
> this. Clinton didn't do anything. :)
>
>
> > And WHO was president when unemployment shrunk to its lowest rate in
many
> > years? Ah, it doesn't matter. Just credit the Republicans again. We all
know
> > how much they value jobs for the lower classes. And health care for
them,
> > for that matter. And public schools. And yadda yadda...
>
>
> The president himself gets way too much credit when things go good, and
way too
> much criticism when things go bad. It wasn't totally Bush's fault that
the
> economy went bad the last year of his presidency and that basically costed
him
> re-election.
>
> Who was president when the car was invented? Wasn't that Woodrow Willson
or
> someone like that? Gosh, some things are just luck :)
>
>
> > This is EXACTLY why I majored in and taught math. It's impossible to
twist
> > mathematical facts to "prove" your point.
>
>
> Well, you can twist graphs to make them look however you want to. :)
>
> Bryan
>
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