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To: RON BL who wrote (127848)	2/18/2001 2:50:51 PM
From: Patricia Trinchero	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

"Indeed liberals seem to want the conservatives to work 50 to 70 hours a week creating routers and code but hand over the money to them to be wasted in failed policies. A good example of this is the energy crisis in California. " Ron, I don't understand how the Ca energy crisis is an example of what you described above. Pete Wilson was the Gov that signed that bill. I am going to look up who controlled the state Assembly and Senate but I was told by a conservative that the bill was passed UNANIMOUSLY by both parties. I think it is a better example of why we need campaign finance reform for BOTH parties. pat

To: RON BL who wrote (127848)	2/18/2001 4:10:08 PM
From: ThirdEye	Respond to of 769670

RON BL:A good example of this is the energy crisis in California. I'm not quite sure what you are saying here but it looks like you have not looked into this very deeply. The deregulation law in CA was virtually written by PG&E and SoCal Edison. It received unanimous support from Dems and Reps. and was intended to be a consumer bail-out of PG&E for its bad debts on nuclear generation facilities in return for which PG&E agreed not to raise rates.

To: RON BL who wrote (127848)	2/18/2001 9:35:55 PM
From: rich4eagle	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 769670

Based on all I read on this line, I am a flaming liberal, interested only in handouts, yet I have worked hard for thirty five plus years, paying inordinate taxes, putting in many hours of hard labor, from delivering newspapers, to sweeping floors, to laboring in steel mills, to providing our country with the best weapons that money can buy, to selling high ticket items to corporate executives, to running my own business. And looking back I did it my way, and I truly believe all of us are mostly the benefactors of LUCK, and we all should remember that, thus I say it is the responsibility of the lucky ones to help those that for various reasons are unlucky.