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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (256288)5/17/2002 4:37:38 PM
From: Raymond Duray  Read Replies (1) of 769667
 
Hi Karen,

Re: They are public servants, albeit of the highest order, but nevertheless they answer to "We, the People". Isn't that true. Or if not, when did it stop being true?


A few years ago, I was living in San Francisco. Taking the Muni bus one day, I was incensed by something I saw in the newspaper about some unjust perk that Mayor Willie Brown had just offered to the criminal who used to own the SF 49ers football team. I blurted out that Brown couldn't get away with such a galling give-away of the public's money and that he was a "public servant", not our master. Almost universally, a dozen bus-riders snickered at my naivete. They know the score. And you and I don't. We're still stuck at that pollyannish fifth grade level where we think that truth, honesty, ethics and integrity have anything whatsoever to do with what this country has become.

Here's an article that indicates just how deeply the cynicism is reaching into our youth:

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-R.
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