Ah Brett. The answer to your question is obvious. We are where we
are because many people believe that they too can be richer than
their neighbor and that they have a right to do anything they want
to get there.
Mike Fratto
Payne Phalen
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In a message dated 5/19/4 20:57:09, Andy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
<< We are the government. That is the truism that separates us from
many other
systems, including the dictatorships the current administration is
committed
to supplanting with "our" form of "democracy." I won't go there on
this
list, except to note irony in this argument against "government" -
which, in
a democratic republic, is representative of the majority of those
voting. >>
Andy, I do not believe in certain things. I don't believe in
the Tooth
Fairy,
the Great Pumpkin, Santa Clause or that we live in a truly
representative
democracy. If you do, you need to look around and wonder how people
voted
themselves into the mess we're in where large corporations and
greedy
entreprenuers have cornered 90% of the wealth in this nation. Bill
Gates, by
himself, holds a sum of wealth equal to that of the poorest 50% of
the U.S.
population combined. There is obviously some tinkering going on
behind the
scenes for the situation that we now find ourselves in to have
evolved. If
we
had a truly representative democracy, GSE -- for example -- would be
gone
tomorrow. Shame on you for spreading such ridiculous rumors.
Brett Sprangel
East Side
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