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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (59640)	10/10/2004 11:36:13 PM
From: abuelita	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

cough ... sputter ... cough cough .... sputter .... sputter oy. sorry about that. i shouldn't have taken a sip while i was reading your reply.... i never could drink and laugh at the same time <vbg> did you know that throughout the 80's and 90's, real income in the u.s.a. declined or was stagnant for the lower 60%, while wealth and income for the rich skyrocketed. by 1998, discounting home ownerhsip, the top 10% of the population claimed 76% of the nation's net worth. more than half of this is accounted for by the richest 1%. i just watched a documentary about hobos travelling across the united states with music by tom waits. it was a remarkable film - the visual, the audio and the message. there are so many disadvantaged people out there who aren't even aware of this presidential election - all their waking hours are spent trying to survive i guess and it's irrelevant to them in any case. but it makes one wonder, what if they did all register and actually voted - and voted for someone who would HELP them? there are certainly enough of them to do it. rhetorical question though 'cause such a candidate wouldn't be allowed to arrive at that place where he might actually become president. he'd be assassinated first. dean should consider himself fortunate. god bless america, eh. i'm watching fahrenheit 9/11 for the first time. i have no words. -r