Re: The 'working poor' scam

From: Jim Blair (see_at_sig.com)
Date: 07/19/04 

Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 17:16:47 +0000 (UTC)

Johnny 5 <johnny5@yahoo.com> wrote:

...
>
>History proves to me, the rich are always going to find ways to EXPLOIT
>greed and power to make the redistribution UNEQUAL.
 
Hi,

I say it differently. Some people (some rich. some poor, most somewhere
inbetween) will find a way to BECOME rich and thus make the distribution
unequal.

>..What can Bill Gates
>really do anymore for society? He served his purpose, not its time for
>new younger blood to thrive - cut him loose.

Now that he has become rich he and his wife run a foundation to do GOOD
THINGS all over the world.

When it comes to new ideas, computer related or other, new younger guys
will be carrying the ball.

>We need to make it where people like edwards and kerry and bush can't
>hold office for very long, the prez gets 8 years, how many years has
>greenspan been in power? Senator Kennedy - how many years? Strom
>thurmond how many years was he? Churn the power, don't let it be horded
>for TOO long. Once you have been in a national federal position for 8
>years, you can never serve in another national federal position. Not in
>the executive, not in the judicial, and not in the legislative.

A problem (as I see it) with "term limits". We had a congressmen (Bob
Kastenmeir) in my district that was in for decades and was a knee jerk
Liberal Democrat . He lost in 1990 to Scott Klug, a really sharp
Republican who promised to serve only 3 or 4 terms. Klug was my ideal: a
socially liberal fiscal conservative who could win in the Wisconsin second
district which includes Madison.

But after serving for his terms, (and he could have had the job for life),
he quit as he had promised, and went into the private sector. Now we have
another knee jerk Liberal Democrat who will likely be re-elected forever.

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