<HTML>In a message dated 6/1/2003 5:20:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, dhenwood@panix.com writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">One federal employee, who works for a very important (and underfunded) agency (which I won't identify, to protect him) says that the professionals within his agency, as well as others like the State Department and the FDA, worry that Bush &Co intend to destroy them. My classmates aren't the high bourgeoisie, but they aren't the lumpenbourgeoisie either. The straws one clutches at... </BLOCKQUOTE> Well, I work for EPA, definitely underfunded and I like to think, important.  I am convinced they are trying to destroy us.  However, you won't hear a peep in the water cooler about it.  The silence on political afairs here in deafening. Sergio </HTML>