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To: tejek who wrote (175656)	9/30/2003 7:04:08 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578704

Creeping socialism? I don't think so. Socialism is a state of mind....not a vine. Sure why not. We have gotten more and more socialist over the years and more of the decisions in the US get made by the government either through government spending or through regulation. As for states of mind, a lot of people in the US already have a very socialist "state of mind". I was taught in church that was being Christian, not socialistic. Your church didn't do a good job of explaining the difference between charity and socialism, not that I would necessarily expect a church (even a conservative church and my guess is yours was not) to explain the difference. Charity is when you are generous. You have a choice to give or not to give and you choose to give. If you don't have a choice you aren't being generous. Now you know why I hate Bush I'm not sure I see the relevance. Unless you think Bush is pushing creeping socialism. <g> Bush may have gotten a small % of the vote for a presidential winner (a bare electoral win and actually slightly less then Gore in the popular vote) but Clinton got an even smaller percentage of the popular vote, and other presidents before either didn't win a majority or won only a very small one. In any case Bush isn't make any change half so large as imposing wide spread involentary socialism. Tim