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Opinion Polemic, Issue 1, September 25, 1991 pg 3 The summer of 1991 in retrospect: things you didn’t know by a ee summer months have been_ Sauaee enough to give us plenty of ee material to dwell on for least _ several lifetimes. So ae consider a few highlights or more appropriately lowlights of last summer. . The recession is over and full/partial (pick your economist again) recovery. The sad fact is that many. Americans never knew that a recession was occuring. White collar recession is what the experts conveniently labeled it. Perhaps it really was; indeed the hardest. hit- areas yuppie (are they still called that?) filled urban centers. Carefully neglected is the permanent recession existing in America. That’s the true tragedy; there are too many people entrapped in the low-end of te job market spectrum. Dead-end jobs. No upward mobility. No hope. No future. A nation of burger-floppers and store clerks in our service oriented economy, “us some _ Hussein’s _ nuclear oblivious to the booms and busts of the global economy. One: whopper, hold the mayo, please. 2. The Persian Gulf War is over, but it still continues to offer sickening, though sometimes humorous, scenarios. "We have destroyed all of Saddam weapons capability.” -- General Norman Scharzkopf. Legace that fom Detroit newspaper the conclusion of the 100 ae ground offensive in the Persian Gulf debacle. I guess this: is further 00! t US. military intelligence remains a huge oxymoron. _ Four months. later Saddam’s toting the stuff across the sand. Oops!!! On the humorous side . . . intervention, that ‘no improper male/female fraternization occured. Hmm.:..?! ~ Must have been the water. 3.__The Senate clandestinely faised their salaries late one summer night. Accident, or a long filibuster to delay the vote? No, I don’t think so. The more likely scenario is that the Senate delayed their vote until 11:45 pm in order to keep the newspapers from breaking the stories. Do you think it worked? You bet. By the time the public * discovered the raise, it was stale ews. That compounded with the general public’s consensus that _ politicians are supposed to lie, cheat, steal, make a non-story. The logic behind the raise is as infallible as anything else out of Washington. The Senators claim that this wasn’t a pay raise (really guys!) it was a pay equalization to salaries. myself a $20,000 pay equalization. 4, Commutiism is dead! The Evil Empire has collapsed into a loose confederation of independent republics. It would be pretty easy. to kick Communism around right now, but we must make a few things clear. First, the Soviet Union is not a communist state, Would you like to have a Student Senate organized and run book exchange on the ACC campus? MEO TN CL + Karen Mason Steve Smith ”Yes! I think it’s an excellent | ”I think it would be a good idea. It idea. IfIl save students money. Many of us do it already, but: something organized would be even better. would give the students a way to save money. The Polemic is a communications medium of Al College. It is published monthly -- S ber through May -- by Pe enid (oe therameude Otmwrni done the students at Al unity College, 666 Johnson Street, Alpena MI 49707. Telephone (517) 356-9021 Ext. 264. All sade published are the sole responsibility of the author and the inions expressed do not necessarily reflect the views of the ite publisher, advisor or administration of Alpena Community College. The paper, welcomes letters concerning the paper’s content. You may drop them off at The Polemic office, room 110 BTC. Please include a phone number so letters can be verified. ... Andrew McGarry, Sarah Lindsay, Joe McKenna, Amy Blumenthal, Jennifer Sherman, Sally Wong Duffy’s Computer & Supplies “Droducts priced to save you money.” for the state. mmunism, beyond state ownership of capital, « resources, and production facilities, is the distribution of- goods and services according to need. Communism iS*the final step in Marx’s ideology. ‘What we are witnessing in the Soviet Union is not the rising force of democracy but a growing, disturbing trend of nationalism. Nationalism is permanently linked to democratization; some consider it a prerequisite. But nationalism is a destructive force -- look at Yugoslavia, the Kurds in Iraq, Northern Ireland, etc. Even inside the Soviet Union eighty percent of their internal borders are disputed. The whole situation is a mess. This is not to belittle the enormous. moral strides that the Soviet Union has accomplished or to condemn the desires of independence within the republics, but only to somberly remind us that a decaying empire ripped apart by nationalistic forces has triumphed over communism. communism is dead, “why outlaw the communist party in the Soviet Union? Is communism dead? Ask one billion Chinese! from a serious setback, yes -- dead, no. Jay Bushey. *Sounds like a good idea, yet I would like to know more about it. Sandra Parent 71 think it would be a great idea. It would save students a great deal have to pay for all classes and | books,” q Yantomasi It would be really good, sure would help with costs of books.” Tom Masor ”Yes, I feel it would be a. great way of saving students money. I feel, however, the student should | of money and it would help those | be allowed the choice of using illic isgruntled, 118 Sout ie Fey Siicei a ae of dis; ue students who have low grants or | this type book exchange in (517) 356-6946 MI49707 Jo uropeans ing, addition to what the book store would offer.”