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To: RichardMoore
Government unions, not corporations themselves, is where fascism lies in America. Calpers, the NEA and the NTEU are buying up corporate America while they lobby government for more government. Nearly 7 million government employees are not in Social Security. Every dime of their pensions is being invested in the private market. Someday we could all be working for the clerk down at the DMV or our kid's teacher. That is fascism--not Boering getting a contract from the Pentagon or McDonalds getting a tax break to advertise overseas.
15 posted on 07/05/2003 10:52:39 AM PDT by DPB101 (Digging out a skunk is a dirty, smelly business--Joe McCarthy)
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To: DPB101
Yes the Unions are part of the problem mainly because human nature is flawed. But the larger problem is one of design and intent. We can take turns pointing fingers at various groups and individuals but the truth is much more subtle than any of that sort of rhetoric.

What we need to do is recognise that freedom starts in the home and only truly lives there. Am I free to pursue my dream? Yes I am freer here in the USA than anywhere else. Are we guaranteed that America will always be what we think it is? No, the land of the free has been sold out to various economic interests. The problem is much greater than any one nation, a concept that the Globalists would be glad to abolish. "The modern world is insane, not so much because it admits the abnormal as because it cannot recover the normal."(Chesterton)

What is wrong with the nation today is our loss of definition or borders. It is reflected in our everyday life. Try to have a disscussion with someone who says they disagree with you and you will be met with anger or indifference. There is no room for compromise where there are no fixed ideals. So the questions is, what are we aiming for? The greatest common good? But no one can agree on what that is. So all pursue their own interests in the name of individual freedom. When what is really going on is consolidation of wealth by the few against the many. The common man is told that he is receiving a fair wage and he is offered cheap goods from China, a land where no one is free. What is the ideal that is being held up here? Our future as a nation is being squandered to benefit the few today.

38 posted on 07/07/2003 4:21:27 AM PDT by RichardMoore
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