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To: Ilaine who wrote (46853)	7/24/1999 1:20:00 PM
From: jbe	Respond to of 108807

Right, Blue, I should not have said that businesses (plural) have "ideologies," but that Business, or "Corporate America," or whatever you want to call it, has an ideology (in senses #1 and #2 of my post to Bruce). I don't have time to get into it right now (Saturday is Errand Day, after all, and I am running behind), but there are certain general assumptions about the world that Business runs on (as distinct from the specific interests of any individual business). Will try to elaborate on this later. Joan P.S. And when you look at the post I was responding to, I still think that the interests of businesses (plural) are relevant to the matter under discussion. In this country, at any rate, politicians do not decide issues exclusively on the basis of their "principles" (particularly when only "liberal" and "conservative" principles are recognized -- whatever happened to the "moderates"???). They also pay attention to the views of their campaign contributors, among whom businesses probably loom large. Of course, it is not usually a simple quid pro quo: my vote for your money. But don't tell me there is no influence at all!!