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   From: thomandpam@yahoo.com.au   
      
   On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 15:56:46 GMT, "kujebak"    
   wrote:   
      
   >   
   >"Thom"  wrote in message   
   >news:40fce16e.5703388@news.melbpc.org.au...   
   >> On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 07:13:22 GMT, "Joe Myers"   
   >>  wrote:   
   >>   
   >> >"Dana" <#$%@%$#.com> wrote   
   >> >   
   >> >> Bullshit. Socialism is as anti-democratic as you get.   
   >>   
   >> Really, well I'm living in a socialist country at the moment and find   
   >> it more democratic that back in Colorado, in fact we should be having   
   >> an election in the next couple of months.   
   >   
   >Australia is not a socialist country.   
   >It is also one of America's closest allies.   
   >Doesn't that just eat you up?   
      
   Excuse me but it is socialist.  We have   
   1. socialized medicine   
   2.  the dole   
   3. public transport   
   4.  public ownership of many things from power plants to railroads   
   5. govt support of the arts   
   etc etc etc   
      
   74% of Australias are against the war in Iraq and basically its John   
   Howard that is allied not the Australia people.   
   >   
   >Colorado is definitely not liberal, except maybe for that commie nest in   
   >Boulder. Are you one of those silver spoon ingrates, who never had to   
   >put out a day in their lives?   
      
   Colorado tends to have right wingers in the state house in the country   
   and richer suburbs and democrats and left leaning centerists from the   
   cities.  The Mayor of Denver is a Democrat last I looked.   
      
   There are no commies in Colorado, communism died 14 years ago when the   
   USSR imploded.  Perhaps you missed George 41 when he announced it and   
   a New World Order?   
      
   And what am I?  Well to start with unlike the coward in the white   
   house I'm a Viet Nam Vet.  I ran my own business in Colorado and New   
   Mexico for about 18 years.  In 1988 I was invited to come to Australia   
   to work and am now semi-retired doing defence related consulting on   
   the side plus writing now and again.   
      
   I have 10 years of college and two degrees and work on a History   
   Masters and two more BA's.   
      
   THOM   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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