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To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (16979)	5/12/2005 10:59:33 PM
From: CalculatedRisk	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 361391

I've written before: Nixon was not all bad. Ike was actually a decent President ... he balanced the budget, complained about the "military industrial complex", immediately defended George C. Marshall when the extreme right (McCarthy) tried to call Marshall a communist for meeting with Mao. Not a great President, but I'd take him today (even in his current state) over the current resident of the White House. Heck, I'd take Nixon.

To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (16979)	5/26/2005 10:31:46 PM
From: Patricia Trinchero	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 361391

Most old time GOP members have voted against the programs of Johnson and Roosevelt. Now that the GOP is in power it is attempting to abolish the New Deal and the Great Society. They will have to do it in a clandestine form and blame the Dems for the destruction in the end. The first steps are being taken. We are already seeing the removal of pension plans and that has only just begun..........The taxpayers will ultimately have to pay the United pensions while the top officers reap millions in their protected pensions from the company coffers. Many more pension plans will be adjusted in the next few years. Healthcare may also be compromised in additional fashion if the GOP remains in power. We will be pitted against each other as we are forced to pay the retirement pensions for others when their companies default on their retirement plans. The middle class will cease to exist as additional cost of living burdens add up in their bank accounts. The elderly will no longer be independent and the cost of healthcare will further skyrocket.