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

To: KENNETH DOAN who wrote (382145)	3/30/2003 4:03:40 PM
From: CYBERKEN	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

<<"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin>> Ignorant one: Ben was talking about the possibility of some idiots one day establiching Social Security and Medicare programs. He figured that a diligent populace, properly armed, could easily handle a tyrant-but that the diligence against charlatans who would rob the treasury to pay groups to keep them in power was the real danger against the republic. He was chillingly profound, but he was also visionary enough to see a renaissance that would run the charlatans out of our midst...