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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (63916)	7/2/1999 6:25:00 PM
From: Merritt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

MB: Well...I don't think conditions in the U.S. at the time were all that different from those in the rest of the industrialized world. I do believe that the 30's ushered in what we now consider, in our enlightenment<g>, the modern era of social supports...and that's a huge societal change...and that's what prompted my original note of dissent.

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (63916)	7/3/1999 12:57:00 AM
From: JBW	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

Mike, The US must have been a really horrible place. I mean the huge immigration waves from the US back to Europe and where ever prove that, right? Why Americans were just lining up to go someplace with real opportunity and freedom. Remember Ellis Island where millions of Americans left to enjoy the promises of Lenin and Hitler. I don't either. It cracks me up when people who have never been really hungry,scared or otherwise subjected to lifes really bad things long for mythical lands that never existed. Go to almost any street corner in the world and offer to give up your American citizenship. Think you'll have any takers? If necessary they would kill you for it. if things are not the best with our govt. its because most of us just don't care and are lazy. As big a doofus as Nixon was at least his own people finally helped remove him. More than can be said now. Just my 2 cents. JBW