[86756] in Cypherpunks
Re: y2k as ideological opportunity
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Blanc)
Thu Sep 18 18:12:01 1997
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 14:27:11 -0700
To: cypherpunks@algebra.com
From: Blanc <blancw@cnw.com>
Reply-To: Blanc <blancw@cnw.com>
In behalf of the Union of Unorganized Programmers, VZ Nuri-logical wrote:
>when the government finds itself in a crisis. it is
>true at the current rate it looks dismal for the govt to
>fix the problems in time, but govt has huge amounts of
>monetary resources to throw at problems when it wants to.
>does anyone have any idea how much cash sloshes around in
>defense industries?
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On the PBS daily economics news report the other day, and an economist was
warning that this y2k problem could lead to a recession (don't remember if
he said it would be mild or what). This is a possibility that the rest of
us ought prepare for (guess I'll have to see what Harry Brown has to say
about it).
..
Blanc
