            To summarize where we are.

            We have presented you the readers with a simple plan
            to band together in a NATIONAL ELECTRONIC CONGRESS.
      
            The technological means are existing today to produce
            a live debate of the issues facing all Americans at
            any given time.  

            The two greatest issues we face today are crime, and
            gun control being part of this issue, and the second
            greatest issue is Health Care if we are to believe
            President Clinton.  I personally believe that there
            are more important issues that address the Federal
            Budget crisis such as the Defense and Entitlement
            spending, the waste, fraud and abuse rampant in the
            Federal Bureaucracy that would make the Health Care
            spending seem like small potatoes.  

            We can address all of these problems, one at a time
            but in order to get there we have to take baby steps
            at present.  Later on we will be walking with this
            machinery underneath us and working smoothly and
            later still we'll be in full cruise control mode
            where problems pop up, they are debated over these
            channels that we are setting up now in the computer
            industry, and then a common solution is agreed upon
            by the majority and Congress can spend their days
            on the less important issues that most people either
            don't care that much about or don't need fixed right
            away.

            This kind of problem, the small, the insignificant
            the miniscule, are the kinds of problems that a 
            representative body of government is good at.  They
            can debate and make compromises, hold their hearings.
            Call witnesses and filibuster and preen themselves
            on camera, scratch each other's backs, pat themselves
            on the backsides and finally get something passed into
            law after years of careful and studied deliberation.

            The American system of Democracy, however, cannot
            wait for all of these stalling tactics.  The problems
            are too costly and expensive if left un-tended.  Look
            at the Federal Budget Deficit.  We are four, almost
            five trillion bucks in debt.  The recent tax hikes 
            didn't even slow this rate of debt increase at all!
            AND THE PROBLEMS IN THIS COUNTRY GET WORSE by the
            minute.  It would be far more tolerable if these 
            debts that Congress has piled up for us had gone to
            solving some of the problems, like Crime, Drugs, 
            Health Care, Social Security, Welfare Fraud, etc.
   
            But, instead every major social problem of our times
            has been ignored since the 60's the date of their
            birth.  So, Congress has proven that it is ineffectual
            in handling the large problems.  The reasons are 
            too numerous to go into here, but they all center
            around the power of the Almighty Dollar vs. the 
            weakness of Human Greed.

            In a National Electronic Congress, the Almighty 
            dollar can have no influence over our decisions
            as a body of people because no single individual
            would ever yield any more power than his/her neighbor.
            That's the simple beauty behind Direct Democracy.
            The special interest groups can't go around bribing
            every voter.  They will try, but no single group nor 
            all groups put together has this much money!

            So, please join this FIRST NATIONAL ELECTRONIC
            CONGRESS.  If you are still unsure, but feel that
            you might be convinced in the future.  Subscribe
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