ATTN: NEWSDESK - SEPT. 20, 1998 - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

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Downsized the Day he Debated Joe Kennedy,
Hyde authors book against Downsizing

8th-District Congress candidate releases Timesizing, Not Downsizing!

SOMERVILLE, MASS. - Downsized from his job at Individual, Inc. of Burlington, MA a mere two hours after leaving the TV Channel 2 studios where he taped his congressional debate with Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy II on October 28, 1996, independent Republican Philip Hyde III yesterday released a book against downsizing. The handbook, titled Timesizing, Not Downsizing went on sale yesterday in the third-floor business section of the Harvard Coop's Mass. Ave. store in Harvard Square, Cambridge.

Hyde is again running for Joe Kennedy's congressional seat and was again unopposed in his GOP primary. Kennedy himself called Hyde "My kind of Republican!" at a Tufts Chapel forum last April 16. GOP elder, John Sears of Beacon Hill, joined Hyde's campaign on Friday as Chairman. The Boston hub is now seeing "Somerville Power" as Hyde, a resident of Somerville, squares off against his own mayor after the hot 10-way Democratic Primary on Tuesday.

The first copy of Timesizing, Not Downsizing was ordered by US Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D, Cleveland) whom Hyde met at a B&B on Mt. Desert Island on August 22. Two more copies were purchased by Hyde's fellow candidates in the Race for the Eighth - Democrat John O'Connor and independent Anthony Schinella. A fourth was purchased by African-American leader Mel King who ran for the 8th-District seat in 1986. Complementary copies will go to Joe Kennedy, Michael Moore (author of Downsize This!) and the shorter-hours historian, Dr. Ben Hunnicutt of Iowa City.

The manual describes in laymen's terms Hyde's program to crashproof America's economy against the spreading turmoil of globalization. "This manual outlines the long- awaited Great Synthesis -" said Hyde, "the best of capitalism and socialism in a simple upgrade to either." Hyde's campaign mascot symbolizes this blend. Pinky is a six-inch toy pink elephant - elephant for Republican capitalism, pink for Democrat socialism. "Add to that the green of environmental sustainability," says Hyde, "and you've got a real alternative to the bandaids and crutches we've been running on since 1933. That's when FDR substituted job creation for work sharing and sidetracked the 30-hour workweek bill with big-government jobs programs. The New Deal and its feel-good rhetoric only softened the Depression anyway - it took the War to solve it. Now the `benefits' of war have worn off and job creation is failing again, as proved by our top 1990s industry ...prison construction. We've been waiting for `normal' business activity to pick up ever since the 30s so we can take down our bloating suffocating safety net and quit whining.

"We've been waiting 65 years for a way to get private industry back on track without big government while the answer was there from the start. The shorter workweek FDR blocked would have let us share the vanishing work as technology chewed it away, instead of straining to create jobs just to give everyone 40 hours of `face time' forever. FDR admitted his mistake in 1935 but it was too late. Now, regardless of all future technology, we'll never see any benefits in terms of less work and more time for ourselves, our families and our communities. Timesizing, Not Downsizing tells how to fix this mistake, the dumbest one ever made by an intelligent species."

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