European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 15, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 10the stars and stripes thursday May 15, 19s6 William Buckley willing seller plus willing buyer equals Commerce stepping out of ii Biniok Miric he other Day 1 Drew Back. A hic i was inside it had stir cd to ruin. There then happened one of thuse Liny. Inconsequential transactions that go to Ilio Harl of Commerce. A mid dle aged Man was silting in inc Turner just under a protective awning und in a Large portable of sorts be Hail i collection of umbrellas. There is Nih in be wants More i him an umbrella when caught in1 Lite much l Init Bucks he Sard. I pave him $5, and walked happily oblivious into tin rain. I in glad there is no Law that made in illegal " me Lodi what. I did. Curse is there one i did t inspect the Man s License la sell umbrellas Oil the Street did nol inspect the umbrella for Union Label did nut ask whether inc setter or his wares had been approval by the safely und and did Mil Lake the name of the idler in order la report to the i liter nil i Revenue service thai 1 had pail him s5. The nest problem was a bus i spoiled one and entered it. To my great Relief 1 Learned that Lite but was asking tar is instead of fur 50 cents inasmuch As people who carry packets of 90 cents Mound with them arc blessed with Marc organized habits than i was barn Wilh. With some exemplary Pena Etc i handed the Driver a Dollar Bill Only to be told that buses do not accept $1 Bills. I wondered whether this was a drive against counterfeiters far a while during world War a you could Only Cross the mexican Border Wilh $2 Bills he came a i counterfeiters had flooded Wilh . Dollars of every other denomination. But no the idea is to protect inc bus Driver from robbers. The Dutheau crafts who writ regulations and arc so far removed from reality Tor some reason did t in their panning acknowledge. Very Basic reality namely that you or Roll up n Dollar Bill and insert it into the narrowest receptacle causing the same Security experienced by four quarters or 10 dimes or 20 Nickels. The Driver told me i us Otto need the change and no 1 begun one of those Clumsy scorch in very pocket rituals As slowly As possible permitting us Many blocks As possible to Glide by in me event i was finally ejected because i and on my person Only Dollar Bills. Sensing finally that i was engaged in a theatrical charade the bus Driver took pity and said in a voice loud enough Tor a half dozen passengers nearby to hear that perhaps someone would make for me or sell nit a Token which an obliging gentleman proceeded to do. T reflected Over the 30-Biock bus ride on the differ ence Between free spirited Raissez Faire and the kind of de or Chewer Congress docs . Deep cute influence for Sale bedtime Tor Ronzo Laws that get passed by bodies of men and women who love Central planning. On inc one ease you simply Fork out the Money and buy the umbrella. In the other you had logo through three motions and unless you were. Lucky you would be out on the Street and the metro Politan transit authority which wants Money from Washington to make up its deficit would have been out one perfectly Good Dollar Bill usable As Legal Lender. These microcosmic incidents Imp the memory when one comes across Famian denunciations of i cd incl Denver. Deaver was asked by one reporter what he thought he was doing setting up a Public relations firm when to left government to which Deaver gave just the right answer did you think Afler 20 years in government i was going into the Rev Cream business what Mike Deaver is doing for a living is changing people s is Bills into tender negotiable in Federal buses. Column Tel William Safin advise us that the number of lobbyists assigned to the Senate has risen from 5,000 o 20,000 in the last five years. Wei somebody has to Fence the opinion of perfectly legitimate merchandiser some of them Iii Etc umbrellas Tor entrepreneurs in the rain to peddle in legislative and executive quart ers. We should launder our minds every now and then and flush out the bureaucratic cobwebs and gel Back to the umbrellas needed in the rain. Willing seller willing buyer will Vav Rhu crafts believe they have monopoly on morals democrats who wonder whether Mario Cuomo is a wine that will nol travel May have had their worries deep ened when he recently delivered another speech in san Francisco. His i98-1 keynote address there was smash hit in the convention Hall and presumably Minnesota. His theme was that democrats comprised a party of the implication was that non Scrooc Balsdo not even care so democrats have a moral monopoly. In his return to san Francisco to address newspaper publishers Cuomo made a valid Point but made it Wilh an off putting Point was that newspapers must be an affluent nation s conscience calling Atten Tion to persons left behind by Prosperity. However his additional message inti mated by his rhetorical Mode was that he is a member of the compassionate minority und other people Are not just mistaken they Are moral defective. Most americans he said do nol perceive clearly enough the huge part of the population that is poor Ana in pain Andin sadness and his message was Mosi americans unlike your speaker tire unable id understand or Are indifferent loan Ocean of suffering he said the current Prosperity has been purchased at the expense of inc Well being the Hopes and esp stations of a Large part of our nation by Ilic acceptance of such things As o level of unemployment that this nation would have considered scandal Only a decade his message was today s Prosperity has been achieve immorally so people who do not feel ashamed who arc enjoying it Are morally bosc. By the Way unemployment today is 7.1 percent. A decade ago it was 1.7.perceai. Recalling the 1984 convention he said surely those of us who were in san fran Cisco that year failed to convince in american people thai we the nation had real his message was people who voted against democrats did not just have mistaken ideas about the policies appropriate for addressing problems they did not Eves have inc elemental moral sense to know there arc problems. He said Over the last six years the denial of compassion has been made both respectable and his message ewes those who elected and re elected Reagan endorsed not just mistaken policies but moral callousness. As a. Mandate voter told lbs the Day after the 1984 election the country in t Good enough to choose Mondale. Now someone who says a Cuomo docs that Reagan policies arc causing the Middle class to shrink Andus dreams to Wither docs not worry about nuances. Still do democrats really think that Guill mongering and moral blackmail arc the ingredients of successful electoral appeals on election Ere Mon Dale complained that republicans never used the word decent and he said i would rather lose an election about decency than win one about there is a recipe for a disaster suggest that it i indecent 10 disagree Wilh you it Ough to be possible for a Man of Cuomo s Intelli gence to Call nutrition to problems without in the process seeming to disparage the Public s moral sensibilities and to celebrate Iown. From the left and the right we Are being bombarded by the rhetoric of people whom Joseph Epstein Calls Virtu crafts they Are people who no matter what else they say always say. I m fundamentally a dam Fine prs Obj. 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