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Re: Welfare Cheats: Where Are The Republicans?

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From: zombie2_19_98
Date: Sat, 13 Jun 1998 00:00
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In article <slrn6o1drs.2v1.rajat@goteborg.ix.netcom.com>,
  rajat@ix.netcom.com wrote:
>
> On Thu, 11 Jun 1998 19:09:59 GMT,
> zombie2_19_98@yahoo.com <zombie2_19_98@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >Seems the corps (you know the ones with the REAL power) need some of the
> >attention of the anti-welfare forces as opposed to the poor. Or do they (the
> >anti-welfare forces) just want to pick on the powerless.
>
> That's always been the point.  Give the government the power to take
> money away from us with no apparent limits, and guess who's really
> going to end up with that money in the end?
>
> The poor and the powerless?  Oh yeah!  The meek shall inherit the
> earth.  Goodness rules the hearts of the Washington bureaucrats.
>

The Washington bureaucrats are at the mercy of the voters who can one November
day, actually show up and throw them out. Now tell me, how can we vote out the
moneyed interests that control the major corporations and, for the time being,
control our government?

> Power and money placed in the hands of government, for whatever
> tear-jerker, compassionate reasons, will end up in the hands of
> powerbrokers.

I still believe in democracy. The government is ours to either do good or
evil. It has laws and a constitution. Tell me, how would I fight a
belligerent corporate power?



Z

> rajat
>


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Subject: Re: Welfare Cheats: Where Are The Republicans?
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