[RE-wrenches]

Fri Oct 27 11:17:52 EDT 2000

<x-flowed>With all due respect Jeff, I am sick & tired of hearing this argument 
that it is Nader's fault if Bush wins. Guess what? In every single 
election one person wins and several other people lose. That is the 
way it goes. It is GORE's fault if Bush wins because he is selling 
the core values or progressive democrats down the river. It is GORE's 
fault that people are fed up with an administration that says one 
thing and does another. It is not Gore's fault that people do not 
trust the words of a man who claims to have taken the initiative in 
starting the internet.

Voting for Gore because he is not nearly as bad as Bush is a pathetic 
way to make choices in a democracy. Maybe is Bush wins it will force 
people to face the truth of their complacent little worlds to become 
involved in this so-called democracy.

Kim Bowker
Dankoff Solar Products

>Dear Mr. Nader:
>
>Since I was a youth, I have respected your work in creating a better
>America. I have applauded and supported that work, and you have made the
>United States a better place. However, you now stand to erase many of your
>most important victories, and change your legacy from someone who has
>helped us, to someone who helped role back the clock on so many movements.
>Of course, I am speaking of the probability that your candidacy will result
>in G.W. Bush being elected president because you will take enough votes
>away from Al Gore.
>
>Your campaign has been an inspiration, and your message has been heard far
>and wide. But now it is time to make sure that previous gains are not lost.
>It is time to withdraw from the race and strongly endorse Vice President
>Gore. The stakes are too high to act in any other manner. Consider the
>following:
>
>THE ENVIRONMENT
>
>As governor of Texas Bush has put the polluters in charge of the state's
>environmental program with the result that Texas is now an environmental
>disaster.  Although he doesn't dare articulate it during the campaign, the
>Republican agenda includes doing away with the Environmental Protection
>Agency.  If it's not eliminated completely it will be emasculated to the
>point where it exists in name only.
>
>And in service of his major contributors, the Oil and Coal conglomerates,
>Bush and the Republicans will encourage oil exploration in environmentally
>sensitive areas and the burning of fossil fuels to produce electricity etc.
> If you think global warming is bad now, just give a Bush administration a
>few years to pay of its debt to these special interests. And even without
>Global Warming, oil depletion is real. Rather than conserve and shepherd
>our stocks, Bush will use them at even higher rates than now. This will
>imperil our nation in just a few years, as we will quickly become even more
>dependent on Middle East oil.
>
>And whether you want to admit it or not, Mr. Nader, Al Gore has been one of
>the strongest advocates for environmental protection.  He recognized the
>danger of global warming before most people had heard the term.  And he
>almost single handedly, and against the advice of all his political
>advisors, saved the Kyoto Accords.  But a rabid Republican Congress has
>blocked their implementation along with almost every other environmental
>effort put forth by the Clinton Administration.  You're correct.
>Clinton/Gore haven't got a lot done.  But if you'd been president these
>past eight years, neither would you.
>
>CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM
>
>You warn us of the growing power and influence of the corporations on our
>lives and our democracy yet you threaten to help defeat the only candidate
>with any chance of doing the one thing that will help solve this problem.
> You know Bush and the Republicans will not support Campaign Finance
>Reform.  But Gore has promised that he will work with John McCain in his
>mission to bring about the reform we need.  Why on earth would you actively
>work to keep this from happening?
>
>THE SUPREME COURT
>
>Bush will appoint activist conservative judges who will actively seek to
>take away a woman's right to choose.
>
>They will also support the corporate interests you have been so gallantly
>fighting against by promoting "tort reform" which, as you know, is another
>way to disempower the average citizen and take away his or her right to sue
>corporations who damage them or cause death.
>
>And the Bush Supreme Court will be anti-environment and side with the
>exploiters and polluters who so willingly sacrifice the public health and
>safety on the alter of short term profit.
>
>THE DEFICIT AND THE MIDDLE CLASS
>
>While Gore intends to use the surplus to pay down the deficit, Bush plans
>to refund a large part of it to the wealthy.  He says it's their money and
>they should get it back.  Well, it's their deficit as well and they should
>help pay it off.
>
>At this time the nation is almost five trillion six hundred billion dollars
>in the red.  That's $5,600,000,000,000.   Over the past ten years we have
>paid over three trillion dollars in interest.  This year we will pay an
>estimated three hundred and sixty-two billion dollars in interest.  That's
>$362,000,000,000, Mr. Nader.  About $1,400 for every man woman and child in
>this country.  Do you have any idea what that amount of money could do for
>the environment and health care and education if it was not being wasted on
>interest?
>
>Next year we will pay even more.  And the years after that still more. And
>instead of paying down the deficit it will grow larger.  Why?  So Bill
>Gates and Paul Allen and all the other multimillionaires can have their
>much needed tax breaks.   And if Bush is elected and then inheritance tax
>is eliminated, the middle class will be asked to make up the hundreds of
>billions of dollars in those lost revenues as well.
>
>SOCIAL SECURITY
>
>You know Bush plans to divert hundreds of billions of dollars to Wall
>Street.  It seems like a great scheme while the market is going up as it
>has been for the past several years.  But what goes up also comes down.
> While this risky scheme may put a few billion in the pockets of the
>brokers and underwriters, it will turn Social Security into Social
>Insecurity and endanger the retirement of many people who unfortunately
>don't have as much money as you do.
>
>Mr. Nader, you have stated publicly that you would rather see Bush win than
>Gore.  You seem to believe that Bush will make things so bad that the
>country will rise up.  This reminds me of the days when doctors bled
>patients in order to cure them.  The problem was the patients often died
>from the treatment rather than the disease.
>
>As someone who agrees with you on so many things and would love to see you
>continue your campaign to educate and enlighten us about the things for
>which you care so much, I ask you to do the right thing.  The election is
>too close and now is the time for you to throw your support behind Gore.
> If you help Bush win you will have single handedly done more damage than
>any well meaning person could possible conceive of.  Please don't let this
>happen.
>
>Sincerely,
>
>Jeffery D. Wolfe
>P.O. Box 51
>Strafford, VT 05072
>
>
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