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Politics : The Left Wing Porch -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Poet who wrote (2077)	12/26/2000 11:12:53 AM
From: coug	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6089

Oh thank you Poet, You always know what to say.. That's why your name is ...........Poet.. m

To: Poet who wrote (2077)	12/26/2000 11:32:47 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6089

My grandmother live at the turn of the century in a tenement in Chicago. No government assistance for the poor when they were starving or when they fell ill, meant death. No state help with medical care meant death. My mothers little brother died in 1924 because her mother couldn't afford to bring in a doctor until it was too late. The food was rotten and adulterated with all sorts of noxious compounds- no government watched the food supply. Toys, cribs, clothing, cars NONE of them safe. 100 years ago libertariansim worked no better than it would work today. The Octopus and The Jungle. If you haven't read them -do. My Grandmother worked a boarding house and in factories. She was in the first sit down strike in Chicago- the women were locked in, she said it was extremely hard to concentrate with the long hours and no breaks. The noise was ferocious. Her best friend lost a hand in a machine. No compensation. I don't know why people want to romanticize the past- it was much worse than the present.