This was a letter published Tuesday, Oct. 24, in the Dubuque
Telegraph-Herald.  I was so intent on trying to keep it to 300 words that I
forgot to say I was supporting Al Gore.  It sounds as if it could be from a
Nader supporter.  Maybe, if in fact, there are any undecided voters out
there who somehow could be wavering towards Bush, such as this might, at
least, help them swing back to the left.
     If Bush gets elected, my plan is to leave the country on Jan. 17!!!
............ (Of course, if Gore or Nader get elected, I will also leave
the country on Jan. 17.  Like some movie actor and wife, I just liked the
dramatic sound of that!!)

Dick Worm

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> From: Jane Worm <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Letters to editor
> Date: Friday, October 20, 2000 12:05 PM
>
> Letters to Editor
> Telegraph Herald
> P.O. Box 688
> Dubuque, IA 52004-0688
>
> From:  Richard Worm
>            3680 Echo Hills Dr.
>            Bellevue, IA 52031-9557
>
>            (319/582-2580)
>
> Dear Editor:
>
>      As corporations continue to merge and take over this country and
> world, it is of interest how candidates such as Bush and Nussle think a
> "corporate" government can be returned to "the people".  If "the people"
> are stockholders with short term, financial gain in mind rather than
> long-term environmental quality, this could be true.
>      Here are a few things corporations enjoy or want:
>      1.  Unrestricted, feedlot and livestock confinement operations at
the
> expense of water and odor quality.
>      2.  Preventing the National Park Service from limiting snowmobile
> usage.  (Such personalized motors create more profits than healthful,
> natural exercise and more than the larger, quieter, and less polluting
> snowcoaches offering winter access to remote areas.)
>      3.  Lock-up of and/or opposition to break-throughs in solar power
> research and development as long as oil and coal can still be dug up from
> wherever and remain "convenient and profitable" at environmental expense.

> (Low mileage SUV's, which the "trusted" public is hounded by advertising
to
> "need",  help sell even more gasoline at whatever, complained-about
cost.)
>      4.  Policies encouraging population growth, on a finite planet,
> because such "growth" is the easiest way to continue to still expand
> profits.  Urban and second-home sprawl is easy so more farmland,
wetlands,
> river bluffs, and pristine landscapes succumb to the onslaught brought on
> by an everexpanding population.
>      5.  Government subsidized operations such as barge traffic; logging,
> grazing,
> and mining on public lands;  military contracts here and abroad; and
> tobacco growing while promoting tax cuts.
>      6.  "Free" trade with other nation's where international,
> mega-corporations can go to manufacture products with cheap labor and
fewer
> environmental protection regulations and then be free to sell those
> products to bargain-hunters still back here in the U.S.
>
> Sincerely, Richard Worm
>
>
>
>
>
>

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