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To: Drew Williams who wrote (1056)	3/16/1999 10:59:00 PM
From: Ruffian	Respond to of 5853

Zoltan, Sorry this is the post I wanted to send to you> Gore should come up with some better ideas The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel I enjoyed your March 10 editorial, "Gore hotline not a hot idea." I have just received my phone bill with a 41-cent per month increase for Milwaukee County number portability surcharge. When I called to protest this increase, I was informed that it is a mandatory charge imposed by the Federal Communications Commission to enable me to keep my phone number if I should move. I have no intention of moving and, if I should, I could care less if my number was changed, as it has been on past moves. Now, I must pay $4.93 per year for this privilege. [ AT&T ] has also recently added a carrier line charge of 93 cents per month and a universal connectivity charge of 85 cents per month. When I called to protest these increases, I was told they were mandated by the FCC and passed on to the customer. One of these has to do with helping the poor pay their bills; the other I didn't make any sense of at all. I explained that, being on a meager pension, I am among the poor to no avail. Now, with Vice President Al Gore's new traffic hotline, unfunded and regulated by the FCC, how much more will the phone bill increase? As the editorial suggested doing, I am honking to show it has the ring of a campaign gimmick! Let us also remember that Gore, the great environmentalist, proposed to do away with the gasoline engine in 25 years, only one of many of his pollution dreams. I believe that he had better stop the gimmickry and come up with some solid, good ideas. Erwin K. Benz Milwaukee (Copyright 1999)

To: Drew Williams who wrote (1056)	3/17/1999 6:25:00 AM
From: Zoltan!	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5853

>>demonizing everyone who disagrees with you as a leftist shill. Nary a one. Just those whose reputation precedes him. >>George, I apologize to you for wasting your time. How about everyone else? See Drew, if you start down that road, apologizing to everyone whose time you have wasted then you won't have any time left to defend Clinton for his transfers of military/high technology to China for campaign cash deals. Read the papers, you really have your work cut out for you now. As for George, I can tell that he's up for an occasional Gorebasm now and then. Heck, he gives some of the best! You just can't stand it that all the fun is going on. >>What a waste of bandwidth It's pretty clear that you don't even read George. You're just a censor. You and Hillary are out to save and control the Internet from thought.