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To: Gib Bogle who wrote (64233)	6/21/2006 11:56:40 AM
From: GraceZ	Respond to of 110194

We have basic unalienable rights that others without our Constitution lack. Our founders saw to it that we had basic protection against despotic governments that even majority rule couldn't legislate away. The same laws that apply to you also apply to the powerful. 60% of what our Federal government now does is transfer income from one person to another. Almost all the aspects of providing for your personal safety are provided by the local and state government. If anything, transferring so much power (and money) to the Federal government has allowed for greater abuses by the powerful and connected against the individual. Our forefathers understood why it was that power had to be decentralized. States rights have taken just as big a hit in the last forty years as individual rights.