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Subject:Re: Gore orders "plain language" From:Bob Morrisette <writer1 -at- SABU -dot- ENG -dot- SUN -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 5 Jun 1998 16:10:24 -0700
> Date: Fri, 5 Jun 1998 16:12:25 -0500
> From: "Anderson, Ben" <BAnderson -at- GFBANK -dot- COM>
> Subject: Re: Gore orders "plain language"
> Comments: To: Mary <durl -at- BUFFNET -dot- NET>
> To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
>
> Yea, but is the software company close to 1 trillion dollars in debt??
The national debt is now over 5.5 trillion dollars and going up about
431 million dollars every day. Up over a trillion since Clinton took over.
See the debt clock at brillig.com/debt_clock/ for details.
Hope I didn't ruin your weekend.
Bob Morrisette
writer1 -at- sabu -dot- Eng -dot- Sun -dot- com
>
> >----------
> >From: Mary[SMTP:durl -at- BUFFNET -dot- NET]
> >Sent: Friday, June 05, 1998 4:08 PM
> >To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
> >Subject: Re: Gore orders "plain language"
> >
> > Jeeze, way back when I made the kind of comments you're all making,
> >people told me to move to Russia.
> > My Mom's social security check and pension have arrived on time every
> >month but one in the last 17 years--including the electric funds
> >transfers. 99% of my mail gets delivered within one to two days. My
> >Dad's nurse at the Veteran's Hospital cried when he died. I get paid
> >more than .35 an hour. My water's safe to drink; I don't have to buy
> >hits of oxygen on street corners to breathe the air....
> > Now ask me if my software works as well!
> > Mary Durlak
> > Erie Documentation Inc.
> > East Aurora, NY 14052
> >