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DEBRA BEDORE <dbedore@worldnet.att.net> wrote to  and milw.general:

== I'm really P.Oed now.  Pat Robertson is off of Disney and on to 
== predicting armegeddon over the Y2k problems. He's talking about
== food and power shortages and suggesting people stock up for the
== year 2000.  I can just see little old ladies (without computers)
== getting upset over this.  What an asshole!

Local fundamentalists in Milwaukee are organizing activity so they can
flee the city and find refuge in suburban churches. "Pastor" Matt
Trewhella, a convicted abortion protest lawbreaker, is leading one
such effort. Part of it is urging people to withdraw their money from
banks at some point before 1/1/00.

There will be chaos if enough people take their money out of banks.

In a very real way, this could be a self-fulfilling prophecy.

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Our thought for the day, a lesson from history:

A major cause of the fall of the Roman Empire was 
the rise of Conservative Capitalism.

Conservative Capitalists bought up land to form large estates. 
This destroyed the ancient structure of family farmers having
an interest in good goverment. Worse than that, Capitalists
engaged in "downsizing" and use of "scab" labor: slaves.
The displaced Roman small farmers not only lost their property,
but their livelihood as well. They had no interest in preserving
the empire, which increasingly relied on foreign mercenaries for
its defense. Compounding the problem was the avoidance of taxes 
by rich Conservative Capitalists. This emptied the treasury so 
that foreign troops could not be paid, and they (the Goths) 
finally rebelled and destroyed the Roman government.

Are you a political or religious Conservative?
Remember this: those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it.
Pay your taxes and stop complaining.

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