> Original Sender: f752260@unm.edu (julia marie coates) wrote:
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> Does anyone have any info on why he changed parties?
>
Our Colorado newspapers gave 2 reasons:
1. He feels the interior dept is involved in an "attack on the West"-
referring to proposals to charge more for grazing, mining, logging, etc.
2. He supports the balanced-budget ammendment the Dems defeated. He fears
the national debt could cause a loss of nerve by the stock market, as
happened in Mexico, but far larger and with nobody to bail us out.
demublican or republicrat? Z Magazine's Howie Hawkins says (Feb 95):
"These 2 wings of the official party share control of the political
hierarchy, obediently defend the interests of the economic oligarchy,
and dutifully authorize policies of social and ecological destruction
that this system of political and economic power demands."
There is an alternative, practised in Switzerland and Vermont for
example, where THE PEOPLE help make the laws and prescribe the budget:
"direct" or true democracy, along the lines of the Iroquois Great Law
of Peace, the inspiration for the U.S. Constitution. Please e-mail me
for more info.
Evan Ravitz, director - "I'm a means to an end, I'm everybody's friend."
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