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To: American Spirit who wrote (95127)	11/30/2000 12:47:41 AM
From: Mr. Whist	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 769667

Excellent post. Overlooked in the aftermath of Nov. 7 were some of the grass-roots, get-out-the-vote efforts by the NAACP and other organizations. The traditionally disenfranchised throughout the country are, in many cases, beating the Republicans at their own game: registering voters, spreading the word and making sure that the party faithful vote on election day. (Great example: Loretta Sanchez's win over Bob Dornan in California a few years ago.) In many races, hard work overcame the GOP's financial advantage. Perhaps we put too much emphasis on the role money plays in elections. The GOP and Big Business put up huge bucks in the weeks leading up to Nov. 7 to try to defeat an Ohio Supreme Court justice who had sided with the common man and common woman on several key issues over the years. Ohio voters ... including many people who voted for Bush ... said no to the GOP-Big Business smear campaign to try to buy a seat on the Ohio Supreme Court.

To: American Spirit who wrote (95127)	11/30/2000 2:54:03 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

That post was so bad I'm really not sure where to start. Was that written in English? Look, I come from poverty and it was one generation back- -my father and mother and my childhood. That does NOT mean I am entitled to have the federal gov't take money from my neighbors at gunpoint to support me. That's what taxes are: "You have to give it to the government. If you don't, they'll come get it." Part of this is a simple matter of attitudes. If you believe that you have and should support yourself, you will take the necessary actions to accomplish that- -and possiby achieve more, maybe much more, than you expected. If you believe that life is unfair (which it is- -for everybody), that the dice are loaded (which they are- -for almost everybody), that you have no chance of achieving financial freedom and independence (which is the central lie that will become self-fulfulling), then you have condemned yourself to a life of poverty.