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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (230627)	4/25/2005 10:32:55 AM
From: Taro	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572446

So no more rubbish, eh? Hitler, says Goetz Aly, was a "feel good dictator," a leader who not only made Germans feel important, but also made sure they were well cared-for by the state. To do so, he gave them huge tax breaks and introduced social benefits that even today anchor the society. He also ensured that even in the last days of the war not a single German went hungry. Despite near-constant warfare, never once during his 12 years in power did Hitler raise taxes for working class people. He also -- in great contrast to World War I -- particularly pampered soldiers and their families, offering them more than double the salaries and benefits that American and British families received. "It looks like a duck, it walks like a duck...", sure looks like the socialistic component of "National Sozialism" to me! Taro

To: Raymond Duray who wrote (230627)	4/25/2005 10:36:43 AM
From: Taro	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572446

Hitler famously quipped, "it's a blessing for the leaders that the people do not think." Sounds more like Goebbels to me though. Taro

To: Raymond Duray who wrote (230627)	4/25/2005 4:56:51 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572446

I feel that much the same sort of psychological malaise is occurring in America today. Far too many people see the problems that they face in their own lives, and find that they are struggling more and more each month with increasingly expensive fuel, health, housing and food costs yet they love George Bush and completely fail to comprehend that many of Bush's policies are actually very hurtful of Americans in general. In part, that's because Bush tells the people that others are to blame for their problems. Any oil trader knows that the major culprit for the current high oil prices is the psychology of shortage that pervades the markets. That sense of shortage comes in big part to the war in Iraq and the uncertainty it has brought to the world's oil markets. However, in his weekend radio address, Bush blamed past presidents ie Clinton as well as the Dems for the shortages, claiming that they discouraged drilling in Alaska, ANWR, and off the coastlines. To someone who doesn't trade oil or understand how limited the reserves are in the ANWR or that the ANWR has only heavy crude whereas we use mostly 'sweet' or light crude in the US, Bush's argument sounds very plausible. After all, who has the time to outthink a president and his BS. I've heard loyal Republicans on honest call-in shows like C-SPAN's Washington Journal state how much they hate Bush's policies, while they remain completely loyal to their Party and their leader. It's really a pathetic spectacle of human weakness. They are people who's commitment is more to their own party than their country. They are not worth spit. ted