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Early in the morning of June 4,
Beverage Control Commission w
right? Not quite.
Wilbur Hodge Jr. was at a partj
cials before the accident, where hi
but ate a meal and drank water aftt
he wasn't drunk, right.
However, some things just don'
Ford Crown Victoria on the side c
1-26 near Columbia, and walked
Patrol reported. He walked back tc
think to call and report the accide
didn't report the accident at all. 1
car's police radio to report it either
Hodge said he was going to rep
to have the state look at the car
new, rather than have a private m
didn't work that way.
The car was found by a polic
Hodge was summarily questioned
after the fact.
The accident is the second con
si on in recent weeks. Commissior
ville recently called his son to te
ABC agents raided it.
While we have learned in the p
state agency to come under scruti
for the omnipotent ABC, the lii
glorified-Gestapo, whose very nan
the most confident underage drinkc
The State Law Enforcement Di
dent, but has yet to make its findir
for small favors.
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TIlis is President Reagar
who, in 8 years, never
sabmi tted. a. bniancea
budget.
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the chairman of the Alcoholic y(
recked his state car. Big deal at
/ with legislators and state offij
admittedly had a vodka tonic,
jrward, before driving. Okay, so
t fit. Hodge left the silver 1992
>f the ramp connecting 1-20 and
to his hotel, the state Highway
) the Sheraton Hotel, one would
:nt, right. Well, not exactly. He
What's more, he didn't use the
ion the accident in the morning 1
in the daylight because it was
lechanic look at it. However, it
e officer about 4:30 a.m. and J
at 5:30 a.m., a full five hours
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There are some who say Ross Perot is t
lot a viable presidential candidate.
These are the same people who only c
enow of a bipartisan political scheme for 1
bis country. They can not even think of an
election where more than two people are r
running.
These people come from the same coun- t
try that was founded on the principle of t
giving the masses a choice. Doesn't it seem t
ridiculous to say the only correct choice is
from one side or ihe other?
Perot is blowing away the incumbent
George Bush and Arkansas Gov. Bill "Sly
Willie" Clinton. Perot is leading in polls in
California, Texas and Florida, three of the
biggest electoral votes.
Yet, there are still those who say he is
not a viable candidate.
I'm not endorsing Perot, but at least I
have the decency to admit Perot is a viable
candidate.
I can understand why people are supporting
Perot. The people are tired of the old
two-party system that has basically failed.
We're tired of reading about waste, dcfecits
and scandals. We're tired and we need a
change.
Perot may be that change the people are '
asking for. He's a self-made billionaire who
has prospered through the system. He can i
Perot's polici
The excitement about H. Ross Perot for
President is building, and the national media
is promoting the attractive sounding,
business-like ideas of this folk hero billionaire.
However, his plans of systematically
reorganizing the federal government and the
economy are fundamentally flawed.
Perot strongly suggests that the U.S. government
should become a partner to business
and decide which businesses should be
supported and subsidized and which should
be abandoned. He also feels that Washington
should become more involved in the
private sector, deciding on certain products
to promote, regulating executives' salaries
and restricting trade.
Perot's Utopian solution to our economic
problems appears to be a form of state capitalism.
The state capitalistic concept is finding
encouragement from a wide variety of
interest groups ranging from out of fashion
socialists to paranoid manufacturers demanding
trade protection. However, new
wealth and new jobs are created by entre
preneurs, not government. The unique competitive
advantage the U.S. must reclaim
and encourage is our belief in entrepreneurial
capitalism.
Mr. Perot is qualified to develop a system
to manufacture a product, construct a
building, design a software program or assist
in any other orderly process. Economic
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)oth sides.
Yet, some people are still saying Perot is
tot a real candidate.
I wonder if those same people will coninue
to claim he is not a factor when he u
hrows this whole presidential election into a
he hands of the House of Representatives.
The people trying to pretend Perot isn't a
hreat are the same ones who have misled
heir public and ruined trust in government. ?
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country. The only thing they can see is euphoria,
despite the background of a harsh
ind gloomy reality. And they've sold the
euphoria to their citizens.
People like Ronald Reagan, who smiled
ind misled the public, and Bush, who ^
planted the L.A. Riots on the value system, ^
tot the lack of trust in the judicial system,
tave lied to us. They've sold us a pack of
ies and we bought at the highest price.
They're also the same people who have
nade Ross Perot such an appealing choice
for president.
Tige Watts fc
Tige Watts is the Managing/News Editor v
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behavior in a free market, howver, is not an
orderly process. Attempts to direct the ac- c
tual outcome have always had a negative N
effect. Capitalism derives its vitality from
the inherent randomness of human activity.
No systematic governmental economic solution
will ever be beneficial.
The most important lesson of the collapse
of communism is that no systematically
determined economy can yield anything
but permanent stagnation and human
misery. The more systematically devised an
economy, the less fluid and more monopolistic
it will become.
When government attempts to direct econr\mir
artivitv fhp r\nlv u/innf>r? am thrvm
in power and their favored associates. Business
does not need government to be its
friend; however, we would all benefit if
government would cease being the enemy.
Mr. Perot, Mr. Clinton and the Congress
should forget about systematically enforced
programs for economic prosperity and turn
their attention to nurturing the behavorial,
cultural and intellectual wherewithal of our
citizens, upon whose dillegence and constantly
evolving creative ingenuity all future
economic growth depends.
- Barry Wynn
Barry Wynn is chairman of the S.C. Republican
Party.
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ujho, in 4 ye; never
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held during the fall and spring
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bit easier, "Things are generally more
=?sy as I laid back and in the amout of
time given they can't expect
you to do as much work. But
you have a shorter amount of
time to read more everyday."
Write-in ruling
unconstitutional
Shelley Magee
Looking upon both the Republican and Democraic
options for the presidential candidacy, I'm remiided
of seeing "Miss Piggy for President" bumper
tickers when I was a kid.
Bush is just boring lip service. Clinton is a real
erson, with real errors, but doesn't even have the
uts to admit he inhaled. Buchanan is a melodramac
David Duke without the klan past (that is, as far
s we know).
Understandably, none of this is terribly appetizing
) the American voter. And can we be blamed?
We are in economic chaos. The fiber of freedom
rom which this country has
een weaved is fraying at the
earns, as bill after bill trying to Jm/jBUm
natch back, by the handful, the ?
iersonal liberties we cherish,
inds its way to the congres- /
ional floor. ^
And America is protesting. *4^
Ve are looking elsewhere. If |y?
leither party wants to give us
n acceptable candidate, then we can find one else
vhere.
Or can we?
The Supreme Court seems to think we should just
hut up and choose one of the candidates provided
or us. Monday, they ruled states have the right to
>an write-in voting.
So much for protest canidacy. So much for alvays
having alternatives. So much for the
Constitution.
No doubt, our forefathers are turning over in their
graves.
We should be standing, slack jawed, our eyes
>pen wide, incredulously repeating, "they did
vhat?"
Rarely has the Supreme Court been bold enough
to attempt to slip something so entirely unconstitutional
past the American public. But they might. I
found this article on page three of the newspaper I
was reading, as part of a quicky-piece describing a
wrap-up of what the court did this week.
How could this possibly be no big deal? Limiting
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But, of course, almost all of those justices were
appointed by Bush (or Reagan, but we've learned
that other than Reagan's great personality there's no
real difference there). It's interesting that right as
our Republican president is threatened by a write-in
candidate like Ross Perot, suddenly write-ins are illegal,
according to those same conservative justices.
Bush is obviously sweating.
And can you blame him?
He made us a promise to get us back on our finacial
feet. He made a promise to ensure the sanctity
of our personal freedoms. He doesn't seem to be doing
any of that particularly well, and the public is
unhappy. They are looking elsewhere for leadership.
Well, sorry George. The Constitution is not there
to suddenly be conveniently ignored just because
you might lose an election. Even if you did appoint
the judges.
The title you hold, sir, is a privilege. We have given
it to you because you told us you would do the
job, and in November we can just as easily take it
away.
That, my friend, is why we have a constitution.
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Editor in Chief Shelley Magee
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/iewpoint Editor Aaron Sheinin
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