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To: KLP who wrote (48867)	10/19/2000 1:33:57 AM
From: PartyTime	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

>>>Nice post, and here's a bit of an addendum:"LBJ's Guns and Butter"...and if anyone wants even more food for thought, search out LBJ's "Great Society" speech.....after 40 years, most of which was under a solid Democratic Congress, and Billions of Dollars (yes BIG CAPITAL B)....that have been poured into this society so that everyone would have a fair chance...WHY had not much changed...<<< America's failed Drug War, with both Democrats and Republicans to blame, has considerable responsibility for, as you wrote, "not much changed." It's an issue which has corrupted America beyond just the use of drugs. No politician has yet shown guts enough to take this issue head on. And I think Buch would be more the law and order freak on the issue. Reevaluating how America deals with the drug issue would do much to help solve what we know as poverty and crime in our nation.

To: KLP who wrote (48867)	10/19/2000 10:32:29 AM
From: Joseph F. Hubel	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769670

KLP, Thanks for your addendum, Most of the time I write from a memory which many on this thread do not have as they were not old enough or born when these things took place. I have vivid memories and pictures of whole neighborhoods burned down in Wash,DC. and TV coverage of similar events elsewhere. The continuing riots, the daily war footage and the mini civil war American against American turmoil that seemed to go on endlessly. I remember thinking even at my somewhat youthful period, "How can we afford this horribly expensive war, the social programs and civil damages happening to our cities. I recall it as probably the worst decade of my life. I so resented Johnson for the war and the civil unrest his Great Society rhetoric seemed to foment. His programs and speeches actually appeared to be causing the discontentment. Johnson single handedly seemed to be responsible for creating the Democrat's preserved mantra of tax and spend social engineering. I remember thinking back then that as little as I then earned, they kept taking more and more of my earnings. I'm certain it was then that I developed my political leanings. I was certain Johnson was bent on reversing JFK's well remembered "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country", to "Demand that your country do for you". JFH