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To: Oblomov who wrote (270476)12/12/2003 11:27:49 AM
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My apologies. What I meant was, I'm not sure how much more of the following we can stand:

1. Government for sale to the highest bidder
2. Trickle-up economics
3. Government of the corporations, by the corporations, for the corporations
4. Environmental rollbacks
5. Unprecedented deficit spending in order to purchase the '04 election
6. Global unilateralism

These are all things that W benefits from personally, at *our* expense, but people are too doped up on the "free money" to realize that the thieves are running away with the country.

We CAN afford not to spoil the air, land, and water around us. And we *can* afford to educate our children. How much more mass produced garbage do we all really need - or want? Despite more and more crap, our real standards of living stopped improving LONG ago.

And for all the complaints about the inefficiencies of government bureaucracies, you could have thousands of bureaucrats sitting on their butts doing nothing for the price of a single CEO these days. Forget talking about waste in the government sector - let's start talking about the waste in the PRIVATE sector...

At some point, our own self-interest - greed - goes from being our best friend to our worst enemy. I think we're beyond there.

BC
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