Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 08:00:40 -0400
From: "Jay Rusgrove" <advancedreceiver@snet.net>
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John

Here lately, it seems,  we have a "repressive" democracy...

Jay Rusgrove

Jay Rusgrove, W1VD

WarmSpgs@aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 5/15/03 8:19:19 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> DK8KW@compuserve.com writes:
>
> << Obviously more and more of some
>  government's decisions are directly influenced by the
>  power of industries and large companies! >>
>
> It reminds me of a time several years ago, Geri, when a reporter on our
> National Public Radio network was interviewing a guest about the collapse of
> the Soviet Union.  She remarked that the Russian people had lived under a
> communist government for many years, while we had a capitalist form of
> government throughout our history.
>
> I exclaimed to my radio: "You silly cow!"  (I meant it in only the nicest
> possible sense, of course.)  "Capitalism is our economic system.  The last
> time I read the Constitution, I could swear our form of government was
> representative democracy."
>
> But in retrospect, perhaps she was right after all.
>
> John