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December 3, 2002

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Legend's View

Taxation without representation?

After Nov. 5, we entered head first into an extreme right wing government that we must all take with a grain of salt and attempt to find some common ground, or agree to disagree which is difficult when addressing such sensitive issues that will affect our lives and the lives of our children.

Some say the Republican majority present in our government at this time has happened before and everything was, relatively OK.

For some, this is a joyous occasion of defeat and a case “of the best man wins.”

There are different types of Republicans and Democrats – some more extreme than others.

There is a fanatical Republican Party in charge of many offices right now, which will have a long-term effect on evenly balanced representation in our government.

There are several judges, federal and state, that need to be replaced and will be appointed by a conservative majority.

The impact of these appointments and elections may last a lifetime.
Federal judges are appointed for life, elected judges have a four- to eight-year term to serve but with no term limits, this situation may be as permanent as it gets, for a life time.

Conservative is not necessarily wrong.

Liberal is not necessarily correct.

The necessity is equality of representation in elections.

Now as always, money wins the election.

The more money that is available, the more propaganda, the more publicity, the more visible the person running for office will be.

Repetition is one of the best ways to manipulate people.

This is a matter of the repeated information going from short-term to long-term memory.

There are other important issues that may suffer because of the Republican majority in government.

Environmental issues like parks and preserves, welfare and Social Security issues may not be given the attention that is needed along with the rights of small businesses.

The chairperson of the Libertarian Party, Jim Iannuzo was not pleased with the outcome of the elections.

A government dominated by one party is never good, he says, and a government dominated by two parties is not much better.

Although, the average Libertarian stance is less government, I do not believe anyone will be surprised by his statement.

The press secretary for the Arizona Democratic Party, Diana Jennings, thinks this extreme right wing majority may cause a national level of disaster when speaking about replacing judges.

Even the Republicans had no idea about the outcome of such a right wing election.

There is obviously a confused and discontented electorate, according to Jennings.

If my recollection of political history is correct, was it not the Republicans that created the class wars and do they not spend a lot of time keeping the classes separate?

Though this sounds like an attack on the Republicans, this control technique may be intentionally used to facilitate the smooth running of our precious capitalistic society that is so important to many people.

Hey, this is why people fight to live in America.

Many are prepared to risk everything to have the right to work hard and be paid adequately.

Economic recovery seems to be an issue that is being looked at closely by the recently elected members of the Grand Old Party.

With a pro-corporation stance, Republicans may be able to stimulate and attract major corporations to areas that are in need of creating more opportunity for employment, more money being made, more money being spent, thus more tax revenue.

In hopes of a symbiotic, functional, relationship my idealism overcomes when I say, can’t we all just get along?

Different opinions may taint our abilities to have the faith that others will do the best job they can.

With the common goal of a content and functional society, for the most part, we have good people working for us and we must put our faith in that.

Do not misunderstand, I am not talking about blind faith, but this is the only system we have.

We must make it work.

“The contest is not between us and them, but between good and evil, and if those who would fight evil adopt the ways of evil, evil wins,” said Thomas Jefferson.