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To: portage who wrote (808)	8/3/2001 11:16:53 AM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1715

Hi portage, I concur with your views and would have to say that my radical vociferousness on the threads is not where I'd like to be in terms of my attitudes toward the direction society is taking. Sort of along the lines of Tom Paine or a Robespierre, or possibly an FDR (that traitor to his class!), I find myself faced with a clear and present danger that those who are taking control of our government and our lives via our working conditions are doing so in a most fundamentally unfair and selfish manner. I've been radicalized from my moderate to liberal laisse faire views of the world by the return of monarchism and the new feudalism under the WTO corporate world-wide power grab, and the ancillary judicial coup d'etat which puts post to the notion that we live in anything resembling a democracy. ("If they'd have wanted us to vote, they'd have given us candidates.") I can see the ugly face of capitalism, and the more unbridled it becomes, the more of us six billion humans will be victims of the game to concentrate wealth and power in the hands of an every increasingly smaller elite. This ain't no way to run a planet. I'm a democrat, with a small d. I want everyone to succeed, within the bounds of the abundant resources of this planet, but I am repulsed by those who would gather money and power in gross excess of their actual needs. I've been very much enjoying your commentary, BTW. :) Now, back to the markets. <bg> Cordially, Ray