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Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2007 22:19:40 -0700
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From: "Eva Revesz" <erevesz &AElig hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: candidate calculator

Heck, no!
Use a candidate calculator and end up voting for someone you personally 
don't even like. That makes no sense to me. I mean, I could be signing away 
my vote to someone like Ron Paul the way things look at this improvetheworld 
site!
I'm still planning on picking up the lost thread regarding the Graham 
article -- just been too busy with the beginning of fall semester and all. 
Michelle -- I thought your last response about the research on health 
"inequality" was right on. I had started to respond and then got 
side-tracked ...I'll return to that shelved draft shortly.
Trixie


>From: James W Mickens <jmickens &AElig eecs.umich.edu>
>To: Daniel Reeves <dreeves &AElig umich.edu>
>CC: improvetheworld &AElig umich.edu
>Subject: Re: candidate calculator
>Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 20:28:14 -0400 (EDT)
>
>>Who else wants to join?  (You can reply to just me if you want.)
>>We really need some socialists (Michelle? Dave? Trixie? James?).
>
>Being concerned about the negative effects of income inequality does not 
>make me a socialist. I have no special distrust of capitalism or 
>market-based systems. My ideal economy would look more American than 
>European, and as I've mentioned before, a certain level of income 
>inequality is needed to encourage our most productive citizens. However, I 
>recognize that completely unfettered markets optimize wealth-based metrics, 
>not welfare-based metrics. Thus, a basic sense of morality compels me to 
>support government intervention when markets fail to protect the less 
>fortunate. This is not a socialist stance, but a humanistic one.
>
>~j
>
>
>p.s. I will not join the endorsement pact because there is no guarantee 
>that the selected candidate will be the best one from my perspective. I see 
>no reason to cede my vote to the will of a collective that may not share my 
>key political beliefs. The fate-sharing aspect of the endorsement process 
>might encourage me to argue hard for my candidate; however, fate-sharing 
>does not ensure the correctness of the group's decision from my 
>perspective, and it is precisely my perspective which determines how I cast 
>my vote on election day.

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