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To: jbe who wrote (56852)	10/3/1999 1:34:00 PM
From: nihil	Respond to of 108807

What's so rotten about asking people for money? Even the Red Cross and the Church do that. No one ever told me that they would do me a favor when they asked for money. Maybe that's why I give so little. The advertising doesn't both me. Free country, you know -- First Amendment guarantees the right to lie. I agree the candidates are not the best possible. I think the money game helps them to learn this -- Quayle dropping out from poverty. What bothers me is people who want good candidates to run and still want a free ride. I have no trouble giving 1% or more of my "wealth" every four years to a good candidate -- even if he has no chance to win. I'll even give my time (and I've less of that than money). I don't think you can keep democracy unless you try. Maybe not even then, but I've got to try.