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To: Poet who wrote (5086)	8/11/2001 10:05:42 AM
From: epicure	Respond to of 6089

How very interesting. I am against this kind of affirmative action myself. I want to see no discrimination because of racial, ethnic, gender, sexual preference, etc. No protected class members should be treated either better, or worse, because of their membership in that class. It defeats much of the purpose of anti-discrimination laws, which is to make our society a more harmonious, less discriminatory, place. I don't mind other forms of affirmative action. Like discriminating in favor of people with disadvantaged backgrounds. It SOUNDS like this law was written that way, but in the business world I do not think these laws work and I wish they would prohibit them. I still remember the exposes on minority owned businesses, that were in reality using minorities as fronts for white owned businesses. I approve of affirmative action based on disadvantaged status for admittance to college, though. As long as there are programs in place to help those disadvantaged folks once they get in.

To: Poet who wrote (5086)	8/12/2001 5:41:01 PM
From: Win Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6089

Somewhat more sadly, there was this article today on collateral damage from (non-existant) global warming: Near Vast Bodies of Water, Land Lies Parched nytimes.com Dick Cheney's probably already on the case, though It was the prospect of these growing national water scarcities, combined with a global problem in which nearly a billion people do not have access to clean drinking water, that prompted Enron, the Houston-based energy conglomerate, to enter the water business. Already, bottled water costs more than gasoline in most stores, but nearly 90 percent of all municipal water systems are publicly owned. Enron, the nation's No. 1 marketer of natural gas and electricity, saw water as a commodity that would eventually be deregulated, just as electric power was in California. If that happened, Enron would be free to buy and sell water to the highest bidders — no different from oil or megawatts.