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4 "Bat Serving Wagenhcini. Editor in Ch Lehiui Wendy Hudson, Carson Nancy Saloim Burden Clinton plan to tax welft more waste in already b 1~1he Clinton administration i help finance the president stamps, welfare benefits an Realizing Clinton desperately i budget, this proposal seems to c laic Presumably, one needs to be o enough money to get through th eminent assistance. I uckily, most people who genu qualify for food stamps or welfar I he system has been highly cr American taxpayer and for offerin multiple children. This, some argt unmarried. This new proposal, while genei eminent, would unjustly burden the destitute. The new revenue would be us ing programs, but at what cost? Cc benefit, but a great number of p jxw rty would be needlessly ovet Aside from the undue burden i fare checks is perhaps the most ir the needed money. The govemmi for it back. The alternative, cutting welfare 1 pit on welfare need some financi putting poor people on the street What the government does nee lent, but without hurting the peo] some manner of health care refoi tent needs a new focus. People must be encouraged to ic. t5)' penalizing people lor being i .system only perpetuates its own p People on welfare receive it foi away their benefits in the name ol IW putting forth a concerted eff< pull themselves out of the welfare ing both itself and the American p Casino gamb money, not u Jasper County Councilman Danny McKcnzie hit the nail on the head when he recently shared his opinion on casino gambling: "If it's not morally wrong in Mississippi, 1 don't see wny it would De morally wrong in South Carolina." Several S C. cities, including Columbia, are giving the idea a closer look as lawmakers search desperately for ways to clear a cloudy economy. One problem holding them back is a six-letter word that always seems to spring up in the Bible Belt: morals. .Gambling should never be con- ' side red a moral issue. People can spend their money as they please. This is an economic issue, one of individual rights and one that more anil more states are putting their "morals" aside to accommodate. South Carolina allows activities that a consensus would probably consider much more immoral than regulated casino gambling A surplus of topless bars inhabit the Columbia area, while video poker parlors aren't an oddity on neighborhood street corners. To say casino gambling is immoral ii t ?* wouki matte a nypocnte 01 any South Carolinian who has no problem with video poker and nudie biurs. ( ambling as an economic issue appears much more sound and coherent. Everyone complains about high taxes ami no |obs. Big casinos tend to need a lot of local people to help run them ? everything from parking attendants to housekeepers to blackjack dealers. The government would collect a hefty sum in taxes from casino owners, money that could help lower the average Joe's property taxes. Then there's the issue of economic development. Columbia's previous dreams of making some money from people other than its own were shattered hv a rertain ath. Ictks director who thought a season of NM games would hurt Gamecock football That was only about $40 "t5a#cock B Stink-nt Media Russell House-USC# Col J.T. Wagrflfwim | Nancy Salomonsky Editor in Chief Carolina! Editor I ,??<!.* ?* Tony Santori VK-w,Hlimil,liM Sports Editor CarsiMi Henderson ,,av?d Mandrril Copy Desk Chkl Photo Editor Cordon ManMrr Chris Muld row < 'opy Desk (hut <:raP?? E^10' Wt-.idy I tod son Nora Doy1* News Editor i Asst. News Iht- Uameiock is the student newspaper of the University of S-xilli Carolina and is published Monday, Wednesday and Friday during the fall and spring semesters. with the exception of university holidays and exam periods. 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Viewpoints Editor rial Board Henderson, Gordon Mantler, >nsky, Tony Santori I ire benefits creates iefficient system is reportedly considering a plan to :'s welfare reforms by taxing food id housing subsidies, needs to cut spending in the 1995 ounter the entire purpose of wcl>n welfare because he isn't making e month and therefore needs govlinely need financial assistance can e payments. iticized for being a burden to the g incentives to single women with lie, encourages the poor to remain rating revenue for the federal govthose who can handle it the least, ed to expand work and job trainrtainly, there are those who would eople living on the edge of total burdened. _*r_ on wenare recipients, taxing wclleflicient way possible to generate snt gives people money, then asks benefits, also isn't the answer. Peoial help, usually temporarily, and t won't help the situation. :d to do is reform the welfare sysale the system seeks to help. With m soon to come, the welfare sysget off welfare, not to remain on narried or having no children, the >roblems. a reason: They are poor. Taking f reform is simply not the answer, art to give people the incentive to mire, the government will be doicople the greatest service. ^ ling in S.C. noral, issue ?_? < ] HH I- ..-.i. ?I ' J.T. Wagenheim . EDITOR S NOTE j i million flushed down the toilet. Now, there's a chance to bring people to Columbia again. The zoo and the State Museum are great, but after a few trips to each, outsiders want bigger and better things. A casi- c no would attract people from At- 1 lanta, Charlotte, the Upstate, the ^ Lowcountry and maybe as far south as Florida. Of course, these tourists, Is who will nppH nbrpu If* chrin clpcn n ? -? -? r""-w ^,vvK and eat, will boost Columbia's J restaurants and hotels. | Where to build it though. Alter a a century and a quarter of being the ft state's most violent prison, CC1 has c relocated its last inmates, leaving r some attractive riverfront property on the Congaree. This location would be ideal: It's right off the interstate, close enough to Five Points and the downtown area and a few miles from WilliamsBrice. Those Golden Spur Game- I cock Club members would now j come to town in their Winnebagos Thursday or Friday night to play some roulette or craps before a football game. Get it now? To let morals hinder the economic development of an economy so many claim has gone awry would w be something those moralists will re- r( gret. Casino gambling is just clean, fi safe fun. If it's managed properly, c< the government, proprietors and citizens of South Carolina could truly tti benefit. H J. T. 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IEGAUMTioa/ of MAglfluAW/ ie\'s laiitowcfcmouib e.ci?ie f 1*0744 ? smok??> a joifjt mat-locwafep ftot 1. mai isam cai; rlle7 wm saiitm Hrk'N'beans ANP Flush t>ot*/n the loner-Hie Eyi SEEME> Sos Alt> So y Never, mai "This is the first weeklong celebratioi program. We believe it's very import; of this movement is t Many media mei Today is St. Valentine's Day. I would like to take this opportunity to extend a personal Valentine s greeting to all of the women in my 1 life, from my mother to my professors to the :harming young lady who visited our offices PfiHnv In n urnrlri r\f RnKKittc 1-1 o rrlmnc . . Ill H T? Vi?V? VI AIIU Vlenendez jurors, the vast majority of females 1 enow are class individuals. They prove it by )eing able to put up with the likes of me. v However, I'm going to be a bit more discrimi- 2 "tating when I send valentines to members of the nedia. While some reporters are doing a line s ob in their pursuit of the truth, others are giv- r ng journalism a bad name. > | No Valentine's greetings for producer Rick r (apian of ABC News. According to Tuesday wire F eports, Kaplan served as a media adviser to Bill I Clinton's presidential campaign. This wouldn't v >e an issue if Kaplan hadn't been the producer C >f "PrimeTime Live'' at the time, or if he hadn't d old reporter Sam Donaldson to "go easier" on L Clinton during a story on the candidate. L Last month, Kaplan was transferred to "World b Jews Tonight, ensuring that you will never c gain hear the word "Whitewater" pass Peter si ennings' lips. It | Speaking of Jennings, the ABC news anchor is \ Iso off the Valentine's mailing list. While filing o *om Sarajevo last week, Big Pete had a 13-year- | Id Bosnian boy give him a tour of the sites of H ecent shellings. Jennings wore a flak jacket v JSC fans don't give short Ume anc , , record isn't wl ogler needed support be, the Game< spectable bask o the editor: son. Shame on you USC students! I listen to a hame on all fairweather fans! Nashville, and For all the people at USC and in calls in to expn outh Carolina, you don't deserve a Fogler has do inning tradition. Our athletics di- though its shorl ;ctor does his utmost to bring the ally galls me is I nest coaches in the land to give us students and fai jmpctitive teams in all sports. giving Fogler ai Coach Fogler came at a time when There are ov ic cupooara was ciose to being Dare, the main camp e has installed his system in a very people in the C Should B????? ?j think the whole welfare sy restructured. I don't think the answer. The incentives n< lured." "I think if people actually i J|HL then that's kind of defeating I Public heall its MTz .-ll ^ WotlB'i P SHAVEC Q I gep m |l whence ~/^j| IWJANfli V^_j| if.- :*&{y: \|/ / r(jd? r r* l ? ^ ? - n or rounders uay. in trie past, it ha int to celebrate America's foremost c he reason we have many of the freec Exe( mbers don't dej Patrick McNeill COLUMNIST vhile on camera. The child wasn't provided with Ldditional clothing. Many viewers weren't amused. In fact, talkhow host G. Gordon Liddy has offered to ebuild Jennings' rectum from scratch. I propose nstead that Peter give the jacket to his guest text time, since Jennings obviously isn't pre>ared to take the flak. rVxnn.'o ("I-., "f roc NT" - ? - I WIIUIV v^uuilg Ul lltwj won I ICLClVt a. alentine from me either. On Thursday night, Bonnie and her "Eye to Eye" team became the lefense counsel for Olympic figure skater Tonya larding. While I'm not (yet) opposed to larding's participation in the Games, it seems a it tasteless to have the network plead Tonya's ase to preserve its "Lady and the Tramp on Ice" howdown. CBS can "share a moment with my jnch, and Connie can get her love notes from laury Povich and David Letterman from now n. I The New York Times was never on my list. >ut the paper deserves a big lump of coal in its alentinc mailbox. Last year, David Brock of The I although the win/loss yet to see an average of 01 bat all of us want it to 8,000 in the Coliseum, \ :ocks have played re- 12,000. etball most of the sea- Building a tradition at ai is more than just winnin i sports talk show in takes the support ol all f 1 each night someone less of the record and re ess amazement at what who we're playing. Vanch ne with this team, al- game, and although it hurl t of top talent. What re- there will be 13,000 for he lack of support you game, ns all over the stale are 1 remember a few yea nd the team. Michigan football team er 25,000 students on record, terrible by their sta >us and a half million rhev alwavs hnrl hk ir olumbia area, and I've for the next game. welfare benefits be 1 stem needs to be [~~"1155^ 1 taxing welfare is make sed to be restruc- need i idrew Bullard j Biology junior teed the money, "No. I he purpose." give etia Boseman back :h graduate student Monday, February 14, 1994 HI 4 JL , HAV? you 1 \L vl/^ fH? CAT P- " WHO v. ro-up THE r?/i? ., v,Tf. \^L i'ti t &* i i/J* k> fMr's \\) I'- :VvT; ?J 3RMI ^00N6 s only been recognized in a one-night :ivil rights organization. The founding loms we enjoy today" LaTonia Burrow :utive assistant to the president of the USC NAACP chapter serve valentines American Spectator scooped the Times (and the rest of the world) by breaking the Arkansas state trooper story- Rather than write a toffovv -up or hire Brock, the Times instead decided to "out" Brock as a gay conservative Republican. In the article, the Times quoted a "former friend" of Brock's, who explained that because David is gay he hates women. And because David hates women, he's a conservative Republican. And because David is a gay conservative republican, he really, really hates Hillary Rodham Clinton and is out to discredit her and that goofy-looking guy she hangs out with. Really. The Times was scooped again last week by rhrictnnbpr v?' U/AO# "*'? uuuvi; ui niv. new iui N i'vji, who broke the news of how the U.S. Park Service botched the investigation into the death of White House counsel Vincent Foster. Be sure to look for the in-depth story next week in the Times about Chris Ruddy and how often he beats his goldfish. Happy Valentine's Day to alt 15 of my readers. Be loving and gentle to each other, and I II see you next week. Patrick McNeill's column appears every Monday. yer 7,000 to This is a tradition, and until you stuvhich seats dents and fans all over the state take a step forward and assist Fogler, Scott a institution all other coaches, you don t deg games. It serve a winner, ans regard- j challenge the fraternities, sorori ... . ties and spirit groups to band togeth^".H lose a er, pack the Coliseum for the rets their tans, . . , their next mam,n8 games, give the coach and team the support they need and show rs ago, the the SKL that USG has arrived, i had a 7-4 ndards, but Sid Badger 1 the stands USC alumnus Nashville, Tenn. axed? iniiely don't think they should. It doesn't any sense to tax welfare. People reajly Lhat money." Rod Dawkins Criminal justice freshman don't think it's right. If they're going to he money away, they shouldn't take it Melanie Creech Biology sophomore