This Blows!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jay Rusgrove" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, May 16, 2003 8:00 AM
Subject: Re: LF: No US Ham Band
John
Here lately, it seems, we have a "repressive" democracy...
Jay Rusgrove
Jay Rusgrove, W1VD
[email protected] wrote:
> In a message dated 5/15/03 8:19:19 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> [email protected] 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
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