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To: Les H who wrote (33927)11/6/2000 11:30:58 AM
From: portage  Read Replies (1) of 436258
 
Yeah Les, but that's a different kettle of fish.

Those abuses you mention are bad too, but I bet you don't see any private sector parties rushing in to advocate for those abused by the government in those cases. Funny you should mostly mention military-based abuses, when the defense dept. tends to be dominated by conservative, pro-defense contractor forces.

My point is that we need a balance that includes an advocate for the 95% who don't control the resources or political machine. Since it's not in the corporate charters to advocate in this regard, consumer protections only come from certain gov't. regulations or advocacy.

The private sector is great, and drives this country, but don't count on them to check their abuses on their own. The fallacy is to tout big business vs. big government as a black and white argument, when both are needed in measured doses.

With this country split so closely between the parties, if either one wins all branches of government, there will be a revolt by the opposite side after their extremist elements start taking advantage of their political monopoly. Long live split government and gridlock.

Bush wants the same things Gingrich did, he's just more clever by half. At least they finally learned something by watching Clinton operate <g>.

With that, I'll stop cluttering the board with politics for awhile.
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