In <200312051903.hB5J325Q055814@phobos.aros.net>, on 12/05/03 at 01:50 PM, Automatic digest processor <LISTSERV@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> said: >Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2003 10:03:09 -0800 >From: "John D. Foster" <jidd@JIDDWARE.COM> >Subject: Re: WAS:dumbest auto company NOW: Representatives (NVC) >Ahhh, thanks for the lesson. I was looking at it purely from a state >level, not down at the district level. It makes sense that a rep from a >district in my state other than the one in which I live could care less >how I feel about an issue. Get real folks. :-) There are about 525 elected "representatives" in Congress, for 280 million citizens. You can throw in a district rep if you want, but you are still looking at one person "representing" about half a million people. If you wanna call that representation, I guess its still somewhat of a free country...... John |
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