Re: Cor****ate Socialism and Welfare

Gary Kendrick <kendrickgary@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On 3/19/08 3:35 PM, in article Xns9A669482F958Ebat222@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> "tango" <tango@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> The current version of American Democracy is based on some of the
>> above with GREED being the ultimate consideration.
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> I snipped most of the, very good, reply only because my comment
> doesn't as much relate to the context of your reply but more to the
> word Democracy. 
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> I have heard that our country was never to be a Democracy but rather
> was to be established as a republic and although I think many use one
> term when they mean the other we find that our country, at times,
> wanders from one to the other in that with the money that's given to
> politicians and how they tend to be swayed more by the lobbyist rather
> than the needs of the people over all makes us more a democracy than a
> republic. 
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> http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=3388
   is a link to an article
> that addresses republic vs. democracy.  I think in our case the
> majority is not one of race or *** but is one or wealth or have's
> verse those that are below or outside a certain economic level.
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I have never heard the US referred to as a Republic in my Lifetime. 
I think you may be confusing it with the Republic of Ireland. :).