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[GordonJ]

Richard,

I may be wrong, but I see we have a difference of opinion and, I'm thinking, it boils down to this:

YOU have hope.

I think it is too late.

My opinion is this; if we were to somehow replace every single politician and political appointee in the next few years,

swept every incumbent at every level, including the $800,000.00 a year City Manager of Bell, CA,

and everyone appointed to a gov't "job"...

out of office and replaced them with (and go with whatever political leanings you want, all right, all left, all extreme right, all extreme left, centrists)...

it wouldn't make a bit of difference.

And I think there is where we really disagree. You have HOPE for a better tomorrow for your children and future generations via

"Enough of us yelling at them together, and voting them out, will make a change."

I just don't see how.

My HOPE lies in the community of man, in the individual who is part of a bigger picture and working with people and not governments, big business nor special interests groups.

I feel that politics as a vehicle of change is beyond repair.

But I do hold out hope for the individual and the community.

Gordon