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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Rainy_Day_Woman who wrote (356733)	2/10/2003 9:06:18 AM
From: Machaon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

<< the governing communist party officials had money, homes, food, warmth, clothes in abundance - the rest of the people had poverty and shortages stuffed down their throats and no say about it >> Sad, isn't it? Fascism and Communism both promise great things to the people. Once the people fall for the lies, the people become enslaved, and the leaders live in luxury. ===> "Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely" Because power is so corrupting, it is important for America to have a balance between the Republican and Democrat parties. I would never want one party to get absolute power. << I have family and acquaintances in Hungary and Croatia >> How do they view America, as a bastion of freedom, or a giant corporate octopus?