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["Melody O." <melody AT crecon.com>]

At 05:28 AM 3/2/05 -0700, you wrote:
>I'm going to go out on a limb here and presume that most of the members of 
>the homestead list are not millionaires. If that is the case, then please 
>write to your elected representatives and tell them you are fed up to here 
>with the favoritism handed out to rich people at the expense of the common 
>people. The pending bankruptcy legislation seeks to ignore the condition of 
>our military personnel--often preyed upon by clever salespeople, 
>check-advance people, insurance people, and more--and give big-time 
>preferential treatment to millionaires.
>       
>Proposed Law on Bankruptcy Has Loophole
>By GRETCHEN MORGENSON
>
>Published: March 2, 2005
>The bankruptcy legislation being debated by the Senate is intended to make 
>it harder for people to walk away from their credit card and other debts. 
>But legal specialists say the proposed law leaves open an increasingly 
>popular loophole that lets wealthy people protect substantial assets from 
>creditors even after filing for bankruptcy.
>

In my view, this is just a symptom of "democracy".  

America is not, nor ever was, a *Democracy*.  It is a "Republic".  The
difference being this: in a Republic every citizen has the right to vote in
a representative to vote on and make laws and conduct business on their
behalf.  In a Democracy there is one vote for every person.

In our Congress, at this point, many polititians have quit serving the
public and focused instead on serving themselves.  While it is true that
this law will aid the rich, who is more qualified for that law than our
national leaders?  They, instead of making a law to help America, are
simply making a law to help themselves, which is what Democracy *not* a
Republic, is all about.

Best wishes,
Melody