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To: TimF who wrote (262352)	4/22/2008 11:10:59 PM
From: geode00	Read Replies (1) of 281500

I am going to sell you a nice orange bridge...cheap. Big Pharma bought Medicare Part D and quite successfully although it did look bad with all the crying and arm twisting into the middle of the night. Who ran our government that night, the people in general or the small group of corporate interests. It doesn't have the right labels on it and it isn't yet the CW but it does fit. Socialism is not fascism. Communism doesn't exist except in name in authoritarian regimes. The human species can't do communism. Seen big union strength lately? I'll add in police, fbi, cia, etc. into the supremacy of the military. Their powers (remember FISA, GITMO, rendition, torture?) are increasing which should worry everyone. Corruption is rampant in the US where campaigns are bought and paid for by lobbyists. I can't tell if there are 65 or 125 lobbyists per Congressperson in DC these days. usatoday.com Fradulent elections - oh yes after Florida and Ohio I'm sure everyone is sanguine about chads and machines. Nationalism went crazy (as did most of the US) after 911. It has abated somewhat but it is still pretty creepy in parts of the country. Did you miss the flag pin silliness at the last debate? Take your shoes off lately at the airport? Give up liquid as well? Remember those free-speech zones 2 miles from Bush? Fisa wire tapping? The country has gone nuts and it is a very expensive and time-consuming way to go nuts. The US has gone decidedly down market at least in the popular media. Heck, even our activities on the net are lauded (or derided) as the rise of the amateur. :) "I also have pondered what can be done internally to stop it. " I didn't say that, it was part of the article I c&pasted.

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