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NATHAN: I think that a meaningful turndown in the consumer price index is not going to be visible for another six months or eight months. We have built in a set of developments that we are not going to get rid of very easily. Almost every Government regulatory commission is literally inundated. They are almost impossibly burdened with handling the consequences of the very substantial rise in interest rates and other costs. This is just one manifestation of the pervasive nature of inflation...
...reason, of course, is Proportional Representation-that intricate (some would say Byzantine) electoral system which only Cambridge, alone of U.S. cities, still uses. Some 25 cities used it earlier in this century. They adopted it so minorities would have a better chance of election; they generally got rid of it when unpopular minorities got elected. Now, only in Cambridge can you savor the weeklong PR count...
Pomeroy: I am not speaking facetiously, but I think it would be best to say that all homosexuals are sick, that all heterosexuals are sick, that the population is sick. Let us get rid of this term and look at people as people. I have heard psychiatrists perfectly soberly say that 95% of all the population in the U.S. is mentally...
Cambridge, however, has resisted several attempts to get rid of PR in the 40 years since the City adopted the system...
With all of the words and images we have around us, it may be that action is the only way to open fresh areas of consciousness. In any case, it will take a very concrete destruction of the material foundations of the wrongs we are fighting before we are rid of them...