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To: Casaubon who wrote (35919)	11/20/2000 2:45:43 AM
From: Lee Lichterman III	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42787

OT >>really lost much respect for you. << Sorry to hear that but I am getting really tired of this whole election mess and am getting even more sickened by hearing how Gore even got as close as he did. Signing up criminals and those that can't read, follow simple instructions much less grasp any type of a clue about complex political issues while denying military votes is about as far as my tolerance goes. I fully planned on finishing out another tour of duty but if Gore gets this election, my retirement papers will be filed immediately and I will be a civilian and may even move overseas and leave this mess forever. The breakdowns in demographics for the Democratic cause is like a who's who of losers you would not want deciding your future as a country. It seems to be that Gore picked up Criminals, the uneducated and those expecting free handouts offering nothing in return. Anyone with desires to make the world a better place or at least attempt to pull thier own weight went Republican. Now there are wide spread reports that Military ballots were stolen and Gore votes were submitted in their names. Common sense dictates that there will be a point where the Democratic types will become the majority and the minority will have to work harder to support the freeloaders. Of course that won't last long and those with ambitions will either revolt or move elsewhere rather than be taxed at 80% to support social welfare on a grand scale. There was already talk about many moving last year here on SI when the country's morals starting to going down the tubes and the government intervention in the markets started going full blast while everyone turned a blind eye. I think somewhere in the Camen islands was the target if I recall. Politically correct gives people nice warm fuzzy feelings but is impracticle. When it reaches the point of mimicking the new updated ant and the grasshopper story, it will be too late and is not as far fetched as it sounds. In case you never saw or heard it....... The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks he's a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while others are cold and starving. CBS, NBC, ABC, FOX, PBS and CNN show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food. America is stunned by the sharp contrast. How can it be that, in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so? Then a representative of the NAGB (The national association of green bugs) shows up on Nightline and charges the ant with green bias, and makes the case that the grasshopper is the victim of 30 million years of greenism. Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper, and everybody cries when he sings "It's not easy being green." Bill and Hillary Clinton make a special guest appearance on the CBS Evening News to tell a concerned Dan Rather that they will do everything they can for the grasshopper who has been denied the prosperity he deserves by those who benefited unfairly during the Reagan summers. Richard Gephardt exclaims in an interview with Peter Jennings that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and calls for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his "fair share." Finally, the EEOC drafts the "Economic Equity and Anti-Greenism Act," retroactive to the beginning of the summer. The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the government. Hillary gets her old law firm to represent the grasshopper in a defamation suit against the ant, and the case is tried before a panel of federal hearing officers that Bill appointed from a list of welfare recipients who can only hear cases on Thursday's between 1:30 and 3 PM. The ant loses the case. The story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing up the last bits of the ant's food while the government house he's in, which just happens to be the ant's old house, crumbles around him since he doesn't know how to maintain it. The ant has disappeared in the snow. And on the TV, which the grasshopper bought by selling most of the ant's food, they are showing Bill Clinton standing before a wildly applauding group of Democrats announcing that a new era of "fairness" has dawned in America. ( Will have to be changed to Gore as this was in my files from Feb 99)