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To: bentway who wrote (33214)	6/12/2005 12:35:53 PM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

That's a glib partisan generality - if you removed all government services tomorrow, just about everyone in the country would scream bloody murder because something they enjoyed getting would be gone, or protections for them would have disappeared. People hate Washington until it comes to their own representatives, who are reelected at a 95%+ rate for incumbents despite how much people supposedly hate them. People say they hate big government and they vote for more and more of it all the time. Take away cheap mortgages and the mortgage tax deduction (made possible by the Fed, Congress and FannieMae) and listen to the masses howl in pain. The country is addicted to big government whether they know it or not.